About a week after facing ferocious criticism for their decision to stop compensating their minor-league players during baseball’s pandemic-related shutdown, the Oakland Athletics have reversed course.
The team announced Friday that it will continue to pay its prospects their weekly $400 stipend through August, which coincides with the previously scheduled conclusion of the minor-league season.
Athletics are a joke that’s not funny.
The big loss is for the players, I think most of us don’t give a dam if they play or not. People are having a hard time with all that’s going on now & I don’t think too many people care about baseball.
Sports seem irrelevant at this point. So do the morons who play them.
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