Upper Deck settles with MLB, and as Craig Calcaterra explains, this wasn’t your typical settlement:
Last rule of a settlement: if you can’t get the other guy to agree to some sort of neutral joint statement that doesn’t have someone declaring victory, it is less a settlement than it is a total reaming.
Upper Deck is paying MLB a ton of money, and for all intents and purposes, can’t produce a baseball card that even suggests a player belongs to a certain team. Someone at the company made a very bad decision.
Yet another reason MLB shouldn’t have an antitrust exemption.