Following the agreement by MLB’s owners and players association on a new collective bargaining agreement, plenty around the sports world and beyond weighed in on the big news. Among the crowd? Vermont senator Bernie Sanders.
The former presidential candidate expressed excitement that the season would be played in full, but took the owners to task for what he described as being “far more concerned about increasing their wealth and profits than in strengthening our national pastime.”
Sanders decried the owners as “baseball oligarchs” and criticized the league for numerous slights, including paying minor league players substandard wages and using taxpayers’ money to finance stadiums.