So you people see nothing wrong with a shitty team like the Brewers getting $20M in revenue sharing while only having a $30M payroll? You see nothing wrong with the rich teams having to pay 2/3 of their payroll?
The Devil Rays also spent about $18M. You see nothing wrong with a team doing nothing to help itself out?
The money you spend doesn't guarantee that you will win. Look at the Mets, Red Sox, and the Dodgers. They have been in the top five for quite some time and only have a few playoff games to show for it. In the meantime, the DBacks (high salary at the time), Angels, and Marlins have won the last three WS.
Hell, Steinfucker didn't start going mad with the checkbook until the DBacks beat them. What has it got them? Out in first round 2002, lost WS in 2003.
The A's have been in the bottom of the spending and have made the playoffs the last 4 years. They should be in there this season too. The Twins have had reasonable salaries and were there the last two years.
Owners wouldn't lower prices. Businesses don't cut profits for no reason. Limiting salaries would be wrong. The players make mlb, not the owners. They deserve a substantial share of the money.
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Originally posted by Kurant
Selig said like 3 years ago only 6 teams in Major Leauge Baseball that year made money. True or not, who else is to argue that's not true? Did you see Tiger Stadium this year when the Yankees or Red Sox weren't in town? They had 2/3rds the stadium empty. I woulden't doubt it one bit very few teams made money.
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There are all sorts of ways to make up losses. Anything less than full attendance is a loss of potential earnings. Those "facts" were likely based on some bs logic like that. Actual losses are when your income is less then your expenditures, it's highly doubtfull that Selig was talking about that. If that were the truth, and they really were actually losing millions, they would have happily shown the players their books. Instead they resisted.
I like a luxury tax system. But to have it really work, you have to force cheap owners to spend the money they need to compete.