Wait 'til all the athletes concerned that their multimillion-dollar salaries are lower than someone else's hear about all this.
Why, candidate Clinton asked, should taxpayers subsidize those multimillion-dollar corporate salaries?
He cited players' "multimillion-dollar" salaries and national broadcasting of baseball in 1991 that produced almost $660 million in revenue.
These athletes are serving apprenticeships to a trade that can pay off in multimillion-dollar salaries.
Players with multimillion-dollar salaries who whine about being asked to help the team by playing another position.
And I bet the folks who ran the national system wouldn't make multimillion-dollar salaries as do chief executive officers for the major health maintenance organizations.
Why spend nearly $1 billion of public money to subsidize facilities for a private industry in which billionaire owners pay multimillion-dollar salaries to average players?
Wall Street's biggest investment banks have paid multimillion-dollar salaries to hire Chinese bankers with top connections in recent years.
Today's multimillion-dollar salaries permit even less margin for sentiment than in the past.
At the time, most fans blamed the strike on the greed of the players with multimillion-dollar salaries while absolving the owners.