Clemens: BigFATLIar

Originally Posted by hi_im_god

congress doesn't overturn supreme court decisions. they just pass new laws.

you're correct that the exception for baseball exists because of a 1922 supreme court decision and not an act of congress. but the decision itself leaves it to congress to clarify the issue.

baseball might be free to explore actions against a competitor league that the nfl couldn't because it's exempt from the sherman act. so i'm not sure how the usfl example supports your point.

there have been occasional attempts in congress to address this. john conyers introduced the most recent bill.

there is no real reason that the nfl (or any other league) should be subject to the sherman act and not baseball.

you probably wouldn't see any new major league in the wake of the removal of the exemption. but you would eventually see a different minor league system not tied in directly with major league teams. the minor league system as it exists couldn't be legal absent the exemption.

that'll probably happen just after clemens admits he perjured himself.

I did not say it was likely,
it has been used as a threat
however. Baseball is so incredibly lucrative
that hell freezes over before there is any change.

The bolded above has been mentioned before
and more often now. If the public really cared
about the exemption...no way.
The players, owners themselves
would not ever try to threaten this as the money flows.

No Al Davis types.