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Every winter the majority owners of Major League Baseball’s 30 clubs would convene at a posh resort, and inevitably the MLB commissioner made a point to politely scold everyone in the room. Then MLB commish Bud Selig made it a point to find a new, free agent contract handed to a player that offseason and use it as example to illustrate irresponsible spending among the owners. Not the biggest contract; the contract that he felt was too much. It was Bud’s way to slap the owners for their inability to stop increasing player salaries. In Jan. of 2011, Bud aimed at the Texas Rangers, and specifical…

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