In baseball, the preponderence of teams in post season play are the large market, large revenue teams. Only occasionally does a small market team make post season, and then generally only when their young players reach stardom early (i.e. before they can become free agents). Once the young super stars become free agents, they are bought up by the big-money teams. In effect the small market teams are the farm clubs for the big money teams.
This problem seems to have been solved in football, basketball, and hockey with salary caps and equitable revenue sharing amongst all teams. In those sports, it seems all the playing fields are level. Whoever can field the best team with the same resources wins. Every year it is interesting to see who is best.
Can this problem ever be solved in baseball without fair revenue sharing? Are the owners of the big market teams always going to block fair play? Will the golden rule always apply: He who has the gold rules.
2006-07-10
14:19:30
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