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The Room: Behind Closed Doors of the Messiest Ritual in Sports

The Room: Behind Closed Doors of the Messiest Ritual in Sports

Update: 2025-02-061
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Luka Dončić is just the latest athlete to be deemed too expensive by their employer. But Major League Baseball has a special solution to this problem that is at once top-secret, excruciating and embarrassing. Because when a player and his team disagree on the new salary he deserves, baseball puts them before a tribunal of judges... and lets them argue over how much that player sucks... in front of that player. All-Star second baseman Dan Uggla and journeyman outfielder Cody Ross re-confront David Samson, the former Florida Marlins president who stood between them and their millions. And they have a lesson for every athlete who dares to enter The Room.

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The Room: Behind Closed Doors of the Messiest Ritual in Sports

The Room: Behind Closed Doors of the Messiest Ritual in Sports

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends