{"id":801788,"date":"2026-07-14T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801788\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:53:12","slug":"baseball-union-head-criticizes-mlb-salary-cap-ad-campaign-says-claims-of-economic-woe-are-perverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/801788\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball union head criticizes MLB salary cap ad campaign, says claims of economic woe are perverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1784051592_602_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>FILE &#8211; Attorney Bruce Meyer, the current interim executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, speaks at a news conference in New York on March 11, 2022. (AP Photo\/Richard Drew, File)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tJul 14, 2026 | 8:28 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>PHILADELPHIA (AP) \u2014 The head of baseball\u2019s players\u2019 union chastised management on Tuesday for its advertising campaign in support of a salary cap.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Meyer, who <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/tony-clark-bruce-meyer-mlbpa-b8554adf01290608713970003f81014d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">took over when Tony Clark was forced out in February,<\/a> said the sport was thriving.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe supposed stewards of the game have spent an inordinate amount of time trying to convince those same fans that they don\u2019t have hope or they shouldn\u2019t have hope or that the product that they\u2019re paying to consume in record numbers is somehow broken,\u201d he said. \u201cI think it\u2019s perverse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Attendance has averaged 29,230 this season, up 1.2% from 28,895 through similar dates last year. MLB is on pace for its highest attendance since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FILE &#8211; Attorney Bruce Meyer, the current interim executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, speaks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-801788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}