It’s Time for the Feds to Crack Down on Pro Sports’ Most Absurd Monopoly

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It’s Time for the Feds to Crack Down on Pro Sports’ Most Absurd Monopoly
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The behemoth’s CEO ought to be treated like an executive for Big Tobacco.

Are you a bad actor in the sports industry? Congratulations: No one has been talking about you lately because Fanatics has occupied the world’s attention.

The problem is that Fanatics has a checkered track record on its own. What feels like every 15 minutes, there’s a new viral social media moment featuring a disappointed Fanatics customer. The latest is a baseball fan who ordered a ball autographed by World Series hero Adolis García around Christmas but never received it: “Welp,just canceled my Christmas present today: a World Series baseball autographed by Adolis Garcia.

None of this—all of the mergers and acquisitions, the involvement in whether potential competitors get to license products from Fanatics’ partners—seems to encourage competition. Maybe the Federal Trade Commission or Department of Justice should take a look under the hood and make sure everything is on the up-and-up.But those sorts of inquiries take a while to pull together, and congressional funding for the DOJ’s antitrust efforts.

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