Baseball adopts Obama policy towards financiers

Baseball Commissioner:  Last place teams must pay players only league minimum In response to fan outcry at the poor on-field performance and wasteful spending of such last place teams as the Baltimore Orioles and the Seattle Mariners, Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has ordered all such teams to cap their player's salaries at the league minimum. 

Noting that such clubs receive payments from MLB's "luxury tax" Selig demanded   "some restraint in exchange for MLB aid -- so that when teams seek new MLB dollars, we won't find them up to the same old tricks,"

 One agent suggested that the new limit would guarantee future poor play by these clubs as more talented players signed with other clubs able to pay them more, or even took up more lucrative pro sports 

  'The unintended consequence is that it may be hard to recruit top players to sign for these teams, if you have to keep this limit in place."

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