I'm going to make this very simple. This proposal is only fair if the owners (all multimillionaires) agree to reducing their net income by 77%. Unlike the players who would simply lose income, the owners would have to use the 77% to help our country during this pandemic.
And if they claim their 77% on their taxes as donations, then the players would have the equal right to claim their loss of income as a business loss.
I'm going to assume the owners of the other three major professional sports leagues will not make the same mistake baseball owners did, treating their WORKERS so shabbily.
The Last Dance By Tom Meschery
“We grow small
trying to be great.”
David
Hockney
So what if it was the truth. I like my heroes in the sky where
they belong
not down here mucking around on earth with the rest of us shmucks.
Remember Jordan lifting off behind the free-throw line, his
tongue flapping,
to win the dunk contest? I swear to God, I nearly pissed
myself. So do I really
give a shit if he was a martinet, or that he gambled stupidly,
or that he needed
to blame teammates for his own failures as a human being?
There are enough
knuckleheads in the world I don’t need another one. But, there
sure as hell
are not enough heroes, already too many of them outed by the media
for their peccadilloes. I’m guessing David Hockney came to
his conclusion
by looking into the universe, perhaps watching some distant
star over-heating,
explode into fragments. That’s sort of the way I feel about
Jordan now
after watching The
Last Dance, breaking into the smaller components
of his life, becoming another same-o-same-o dude I encounter
every day
crossing the street, dodging traffic, heading for the deli
for a quick lunch
before back to work. You know, like the guy sitting at the
desk next to me.
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