Buzz Bissinger

Buzz Bissinger bemoans the escalation of players’ salaries in a New York Times op-ed piece, and asks why they should get such salaries in a time when people are struggling to make ends meet. But that seems like the entirely wrong target. Why not go after the billionaires who actually own the teams, if the fact that too much money is sloshing around baseball and other sports gets on one’s nerves? Just because the player is the most visible target doesn’t mean he’s the right person to go after.