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All-star game is a joke, and being linked to home field advantage in the world series is ridiculous. Can't say I won't tune in to check out Brewers players though.

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Well the cubs convention started today and of course as usual  they are trying to entice the fan base as to what to possibly  expect this upcoming season. "THE CUBS AND THIER NEW  GUYS WILL GIVE THE LEAGUE A BIG SURPRISE"! GO CUBS!!!

Dodgers now with 8 guys making 9 figure contracts. 

Great World Series. I agree. And the Dodgers were clutch!!! You don’t have to convince me that a salary cap is necessary. Most of the key Dodger contributors are simply out of reach salary-wise for many teams. And very few key contributors ran through the Dodger farm system. 

That was a very good WS and entertaining to watch with all the ups/downs for both teams. Was pulling for the Blue Jays but you can't deny the Dodgers came up clutch. Had some big contributions from role players last night but of course they don't win that series without all those high paid free agents. As I always say the "best team money can buy". They have the best player in the world (Ohtani) but to have three other #1 Sarting Pitchers is just a wealth of riches that separate them from other MLB teams. Most MLB teams are happy to have at least one #1 pitcher. Of course than you throw in two other MVP guys and that is quite the roster.  Of course the Jays came in with the #5 Highest paid roster in MLB and they were able to pay Vlad Jr. and also bring in key F/A's like Sprenger. 

If you go back 10 years now a team with a top-10 salary has won 8 out of 10 WS. Of course the MLBPA (and others) like to point out that a high payroll does not guarantee championships ( Mets example) True point,but the first goal is to make the play-off's and that is another area where big- spenders have a huge advantage. This year 6 out of the top-10 spending teams made the play-off's and three other teams were in contention until the end of the season. That means 90% of the big spenders were at least in contention at the end of the season. In case of the Met's they had a chance up until the last weekend to make the play-off's. The Braves were the only top-10 spending team out of play-off contention.. Conversely if you look at the bottom 10 spenders only the Crew, Guardians, Tigers were even in contention the last couple weeks of the season. 

I agree there should be a minimum $ teams need to spend on salaries. Teams like the Marlins, A's etc and their $60-$70m payroll has to be addressed. As most know I also think Ant-Man should spend more on the Crew but I recognize even if he gets up to $160-$170m that is still a long ways off from the top spenders. LIke many I just accept the fact the MLBPA is just too powerful/united and I doubt we will ever see any form of a salary cap..  But anyone who argues the current economic system is not heavily tilted to the bigger markets/spenders is just not admitting facts.     

I tell ya what, if every MLB baseball game was as exciting as this one ​i might actually watch baseball. 

Yohanti is ​arrogant, go ​Toronto.

And I cherry picked the only point anyone has ever made against the salary cap - players wanting to make more money. I didn't try to cherry pick that argument, but that's all you or anyone else including Google AI ​can come up with. I think the point has been proven, the players union simply has too much power.

The fact that both the NFL and NBA have salary caps makes your entire argument pointless. Why should the MLB be regulated differently than any other professional sport?

Me not liking baseball simply gives me a non-biased opinion. Brewers, dodgers, timber rattlers they're all the same to me.

Guess I was just pointing out that I haven't seen a legitimate argument against a salary cap. There's absolutely no reason not to level the playing field in a profession that competes against other 'employers'. There are checks and balances in the real world that regulate things like that. To not enforce a policy because the only party it affects is the party opposed to it is simply idiotic, and comical. 

Per google when asked the argument against a salary cap: "MLB does not have a salary cap primarily due to the strong opposition from the MLB Players Association (MLBPA), which views a cap as detrimental to players' earning potential". Well shucks, who would have thought the players would be opposed to that??

That's exactly what a salary cap is. A cap on a player's salary. Seems pretty logical to me.

That's the argument? Lol at least I understand why I'll never understand. 

Quick google search - average MLB salary $5.1 million/year. 5.5 years average time spent playing gives you $25 million +/-. I think they'll be just fine making a little less if that is the only argument against a salary cap. 

As a non-baseball fan, I don't understand the argument against a salary cap. I understand that there may not be a direct correlation between total salary and records/success, but that in itself isn't an argument to not level the playing field which is all that a salary cap does. All I've read from people against the cap is that teams win that don't spend as much on salaries and teams with high salaries aren't guaranteed to win. That's great, but the teams winning on low salaries will continue winning and perhaps the teams spending excessive money will get better at the things their money is partially making up for.

So I guess my question is, what is the benefit of not having a salary cap?

Not sure why you say 2017.  They Dodgers been in the playoffs 13 years straight and I think won the West 12 of those.  The only season with less than 90 wins was Covid year and they were like 40-17 or something like that.

We’ll see, 
Owners of small market teams can do a lot better if their seats are full. 

Yes. The Dodgers have a good thing going. No doubt. They know how to make it work and are smart at what they do. 
But…. Let’s set a cap and share some revenue like NBA and NFL

Salary cap and more revenue sharing would be helpful.