Dir. Bennett Miller
(2011, PG-13, 133 min)

I’ve always wondered about the financial inequality allowed in Major League Baseball. When one team is allowed to spend two, three, or four times as much money as another just because it can, thereby allowing it to outbid all other teams for the best players, doesn’t that hurt the integrity of the game? Teams are not regional clubs but corporate entities able to tip the scales based on the cost of its payroll; consider what happens to the mom-and-pop shops when Walmart moves to town. Are all team sports like this?

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