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The only solution for baseball is to realize the whole MLB is a corporation and the teams just subsidiaries.
All monies (except merchandise which 1/2 should go to the team) should go into a pot, each team getting 1/30th. Then The owners set a spending limit (salary cap) of 75% of the monies and a spending minimum of 65% of the monies. (To spend the minimum tho your next year has to achieve at least 70%)
Then each team puts 10% into the farms. 10% the owners and front offices can pocket as profit and the rest goes for advertising and community services.
This way the teams also develop a TRUE bond with thier city.
The owners know they will get thier profit, (some would get more then they do now). The players know they would get thiers. That way every team spends relatively the same amount. Then the game becomes what it should be about, not money but GM's making trades and drafting and the farm systems. And the fans can have hope every year that thier team may contend.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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