Bartender_Venator
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Bartender_Venator
3hr ago
Why does every league restrict free agency until age 26/27?
Do you mean 16/17? In football (soccer), this was settled by the Bosman ruling in 1995, in an EU court verdict that was then extended to British law, but youth players are covered by different rules intended to protect underage workers.
It’s the median age. You can get the union to approve a deal that limits young players salaries if that means more money goes to the older players and the convenient age to get the majority or 51% is the median age.
I can believe this is how it works in a more cartelized system like the US. Every other cartelized profession is either there or headed in that direction, just ask a lawyer or a doctor.
Bartender_Venator
13hr ago
Yeah parity is very important to the long-run success of a league. Nobody cares about "Ligue 1 McDonald's", or Bayern winning the Bundesliga, or La Liga matches outside of the Big 2.5 teams there, but the Premier League has become the global leader by far in revenue in large part because it's consistently dramatic and unpredictable. Unquestioned dominance by a single big-money team hurts the league in the long run even more than it hurts fans of other teams in the short term.
Bartender_Venator
1d ago
Getting mainline neoreactionary is not at all a surprise for me - and Florida/British Empire are pretty good suggestions for ideal countries. My closest figure, however, beating out Thiel, Land, and Moldbug, is... Salvador Dali!
Pep Guardiola is nicknamed PED Guardiola for a reason - most notably, when he failed his doping test as a player, he blamed his doctor (he was acquitted on the grounds that some people just naturally test positive for nandrolone, so we really can't know if he was doping). Then, once he was a coach at Barcelona, he hired that same doctor...
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