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by cloakandswagger 3523 days ago
That's ultimately what has to give here. Bundling sports channels into cable packages has allowed a bubble to form in the compensation of players and owners. As the article correctly assesses, it is an enormous tax that is passed on to everyone with a cable or satellite subscription.

It's plainly obvious that the exorbitant salaries that players and owners are paid has to go away for the industry to survive.