A few weeks ago when talking about the proposed Minor League Baseball contraction I wrote an entry about Naomi Klein’s theory of Disaster Capitalism and the ways crises are used to institute unpopular changes at times when people are too traumatized by events to effectively mobilize against the people who hold power in an organization:
The MiLB contraction plan fits this blueprint almost a little too perfectly:
The powers that be in baseball had a highly unpopular plan to eliminate jobs and baseball teams for those on the lowest rung of baseball’s socio-economic ladder, however they faced enormous opposition to that plan and looked like they may need to table it.