“On the merits, the complaint makes a lot of good sense, and baseball is shooting itself in the foot for eliminating minor league teams in the hinterlands where people learn to love and be attracted to baseball,” said William Gould, a former head of the National Labor Relations Board who has mediated labor disputes between MLB and its players in the past. “… It’s a long shot proposition, just as the prior attempts to overturn it have made good sense but never carried the day.”