Maybe it's redundant at this point or maybe I need to find the people who are the fruit in this picture.
Statistics back this up and we'll just keep going back to the well with no changes and sadness as fans if we don't work to bring any sort of parity to the league.
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The Player Association will never go for a salary cap because they don’t want to limit how much money they can make
Brewers and other teams wouldn’t spend anywhere close to the cap if it existed
Yeah, no way the Diamondbacks would make the World Series. Or the Rays or the Indians. Never ever.
A salary cap isn’t going to happen. Players don’t want it, and owners won’t agree to the floor that would be necessary with a cap. Instead, MLB should focus on revamping the revenue sharing structure to make it more equitable. Otherwise it will continue to be a regional sport right up until the day it dies completely.
MLB and the players have to feel the long term impacts of diminished fan interest and thus lower profits because too many fans have checked out. It will require a much longer painful burning of small markets before the big dollar markets and league feel it.
It’s one thing to say on paper this is bad, but it will take an overwhelming amount of pain to force change.
Maybe this is an age (read: me being old) thing, but I found baseball vastly more enjoyable once I figured out how to chill out and enjoy the unique things it does provide (the carnival of the senses; nightly entertainment for half the year; getting to know a bit of the players’ personalities; the perennial hope of prospect lists and of spring training; etc.) instead of focusing on the things it doesn’t (annual deep postseason runs). Sure, I’d love to see the Brewers win a World Series one day, and maybe they will. But mostly I’m just grateful to listen to Ueck and the crack of the bat and sometimes to go sit in the sun and drink a beer and watch some of the best ballplayers in the world. After the misery of the 90s and 00s, the team being perennially good is pretty great, too. Not everything needs to be the NFL to be enjoyable; things can be fun for different reasons and in different ways
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The Player Association will never go for a salary cap because they don’t want to limit how much money they can make
Brewers and other teams wouldn’t spend anywhere close to the cap if it existed
Yeah, no way the Diamondbacks would make the World Series. Or the Rays or the Indians. Never ever.
Probably can’t even get to a championship series.
But the Cubs and Jays: they go every year.
Hey, that isn’t how you use that meme! ^^/s
Yea, the future labor negotiations are going to be rough for fans and players as compromises are going to have to happen on both sides. Did you see the [Drellich article last week](https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6005721/2024/12/19/mlb-lockout-2026-salary-cap/)? He sees this as a major pivot to come as well.
A salary cap isn’t going to happen. Players don’t want it, and owners won’t agree to the floor that would be necessary with a cap. Instead, MLB should focus on revamping the revenue sharing structure to make it more equitable. Otherwise it will continue to be a regional sport right up until the day it dies completely.
MLB and the players have to feel the long term impacts of diminished fan interest and thus lower profits because too many fans have checked out. It will require a much longer painful burning of small markets before the big dollar markets and league feel it.
It’s one thing to say on paper this is bad, but it will take an overwhelming amount of pain to force change.
Maybe this is an age (read: me being old) thing, but I found baseball vastly more enjoyable once I figured out how to chill out and enjoy the unique things it does provide (the carnival of the senses; nightly entertainment for half the year; getting to know a bit of the players’ personalities; the perennial hope of prospect lists and of spring training; etc.) instead of focusing on the things it doesn’t (annual deep postseason runs). Sure, I’d love to see the Brewers win a World Series one day, and maybe they will. But mostly I’m just grateful to listen to Ueck and the crack of the bat and sometimes to go sit in the sun and drink a beer and watch some of the best ballplayers in the world. After the misery of the 90s and 00s, the team being perennially good is pretty great, too. Not everything needs to be the NFL to be enjoyable; things can be fun for different reasons and in different ways