Last week, Marc Carig of the Athletic reported that shortly after season’s end, teams get together to discuss how to keep arbitration salaries down. It’s a major drag, sitting in a banquet hall for hours on end, talking about how to suppress the wages of the people most responsible for the sports’ success, so at the end, the team who colluded the best is awarded with a replica championship belt.
In case you didn’t immediately subscribe to The Athletic using offer code: OH HI GRANT, here’s the meat of Carig’s story:
The ceremony ends with the presentation of a replica championship belt, awarded by the league to the team that did most to “achieve the goals set by the industry.