As a dodger fan, I cannot relate to the Pirates or Brewers which serve as a farm system for other teams. I do recognize the greatness of the NFL is that in the same cities, the Steelers and Packers have had dynasty's, despite being small town teams. With a level playing field, what would happen to N.Y, Boston and L.A? For better or for worse?
2007-06-24 08:13:21 · 5 answers · asked by Madd 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
As a pirates fan, of course their needs to be a salary cap...i havent seen a winning season is 14 years and may never see one again in my lifetime. it would be for the better of the game to have it on a level playing field, it would place more emphasis on the farm league, unlike the yankees who just buy whoever...anyways my team is basically a farm team. No matter what players are still want to play for the red socks and yankees because of their history, the same teams don't need to be dominating every year like they do. like you said the NFL is a perfect example, any team at the beginning of the year has a legitimite chance, which that is what the MLB is definatly missing.
2007-06-24 17:02:21 · answer #1 · answered by BOB10001 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont feel that the lack of a salary cap in baseball has hurt it to a very large extent. As seen in the past couple of years, you do not need to have a large payroll in order to win the World Series. With the Cardinals and Tigers making it last year, both teams with middle of the line payrolls shows that teams do not need to spend $100 million to win the World Series. If this changes, and the Yankees or Red Sox begin to truly dominate, Major League Baseball would be forced to institute a Salary Cap.
2007-06-24 15:21:44 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it would make it more competitive. But I think people like to see teams dominate, and people like to see underdogs win, and people like to see teams lose every year.
Examples. There's a lot of Yankees fans (dominate) Lot of Red Sox fans (underdogs) Lot of Cubs fans (losers)
Those are the top 3 most popular teams in MLB. The Yankees wouldn't be popular if they didn't dominate, the Red Sox wouldn't be so popular if they weren't underdogs, and the Cubs wouldn't be so popular if they had won a World Series in the past 30 years.
So I think a salary cap would actually be bad from the financial aspect of baseball. But good from the competitive aspect of baseball. Every team would have a shot at winning in MLB. True fans and purists might like to see a salary cap, but for the casual fan that fills up most of the seats would not. People like to see the teams I mentioned above.
2007-06-24 15:32:43 · answer #3 · answered by oysterchowder2004 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. A salary cap would impose brutal mediocrity upon all teams, and owners, denied their spending rights, would simply have no choice but to pocket the windfall profits.
Seligula would die a happy man.
Ever seen him smile? I have. It's scarier than his usual scowl.
A salary cap creates more problems than it purports to solve.
2007-06-24 17:30:50 · answer #4 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No I wouldn't work because of the guaranteed contracts and the minor league systems.
2007-06-24 15:24:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anthony R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋