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MickeyMantle said:
What's the problem? As EP said, MLB is trending up in attendance, revenue, and profits.
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I could think of many, but the huge glaring problem in MLB is NO SALARY CAP. Selig continually justifies this by saying the Yankees and Red Sox do not win the World Series every year, which is simply moronic.
 
JoeBrasco said:
I could think of many, but the huge glaring problem in MLB is NO SALARY CAP. Selig continually justifies this by saying the Yankees and Red Sox do not win the World Series every year, which is simply moronic.
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Bud Selig cannot simply implement a salary cap. What would you have him do? What evidence do you have that a salary cap would improve MLB beyond its growing revenues, attendance, etc.?

And what else has Bud done to cripple the game that is thriving?
 
JoeBrasco said:
The NFL.
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What about the NFL? Small market cities in the NFL are having a hard time selling tickets while MLB attendance is trending upward.

No doubt the NFL is more popular generally, but that has more to do with marketing and its once-a-week schedule.

Even with a salary cap, the NFL still has useless teams like the Browns, the Bengals and the Jaguars.

And you forgot to answer the question about what you'd want Selig to do about a salary cap.
 
MickeyMantle said:
What about the NFL? Small market cities in the NFL are having a hard time selling tickets while MLB attendance is trending upward.

No doubt the NFL is more popular generally, but that has more to do with marketing and its once-a-week schedule.

Even with a salary cap, the NFL still has useless teams like the Browns, the Bengals and the Jaguars.

And you forgot to answer the question about what you'd want Selig to do about a salary cap.
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I assume you are stating these teams because of the awful attendance records. The same could be said in the MLB about Oakland, Florida, Tampa, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati.
 
coolguy said:
I assume you are stating these teams because of the awful attendance records. The same could be said in the MLB about Oakland, Florida, Tampa, Pittsburgh, and Cincinnati.
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Of course it could. I don't mean to argue that MLB is in better shape than the NFL......simply that a salary cap isn't necessarily the cure-all. MLB owners clearly have the money.
 
MLB has pretty much lost urban youth in this country over the past two decades.

In general I don't think the league is doing terrible, but I think it could be a lot better.
 
Baseball is a mental game far more than phyical. I hate to say it, but kids from urban neighborhoods aren't exactly cut out to play a mental game.

n/r
 
In any event, I believe the top 5 sports leagues in order of profit are: 1) nfl; 2) English premier league; 3) MLB; 4) formula one racing; and 5) nba. Abyss my .
 
Forbes did a study and that was the order I recall. They also looked at the top 50 most valuable teams and nearly (if not all) every nfl team was on that list, followed by a lot of EPL teams and 6 MLB teams....there may have been 1-2 NBA teams on the list.
 
Do you happen to remember which of the 2 NBA teams? My guess would be either Lakers, Boston or New York. Maybe Chicago.
 
Real Madrid, Barcelona, MC Milan and Bayern Munich are not EPL.


Edit: Nor is Juventus. Arsenal, Man U and Chelsea are though.
 
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