The wiki, and other sources, describe a variable rule-set for rosters. Near as I can tell, the current rule is that a CFL team has to have 7 more-or-less Canadian players on the 24 man playing field; it's 12 a side up there. That's not a whole lot of Canadians playing CFL football. I had suspected that the rule, for competition reasons, would allow some number of non-Canadians on the roster, but not require a minimum number of Canadians on the field at all times. Turns out, they do. Good on them.
Which brings us to today's NYT (again), and the saga of Mexican baseball. Here the difference has gone for more imports.
[T]he floodgates opened this year, when the league office increased the number of foreign players allowed on each team's 30-player roster from seven to 20.And foreign players, and not just Americans, flooded in.
Whenever the subject of immigration from the shithole countries to the South rears its head, I usually send readers off to the wiki to review how Operation Wetback actually came about. And it was the Mexican side that initiated the program; their government felt that losing workers, even the barely skilled, to El Norte was a bad thing.
[I]t originated from a request by the Mexican government to stop the illegal entry of Mexican laborers into the United States.But now, let's get us some good ballplayers!! My, how times have changed! Although the report does note that some in Mexico find the loss of roster spots for natives is not a Good Thing.
"It has taken away from what I call the traditional Mexican League," said Diablos manager Bundy, who grew up in Virginia and first experienced the league as a player in the 1980s. "Obviously, it has definitely taken opportunities away from the younger Mexican players."It's a small world, after all. Classical econ says that labor will always get its fair share of revenue. Were that such were ever true.
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