“Tie the cap to league revenue” sounds fair until you realize owners spent 30 years engineering what counts as league revenue.
The Braves don’t just sell tickets. They own The Battery. Mixed-use development. Hotels. Restaurants. Parking. None of it counts as baseball related revenue.
Cubs own the rooftops across from Wrigley. Rangers built Globe Life District. Cardinals own Ballpark Village. The Mets are building a casino.
The players fill those seats and attract the fans. The players make that real estate valuable. The players are the product that turns a parking lot into a $500M development.
But Freddie Freeman’s contract counts against the cap. The Battery’s hotel revenue doesn’t count toward the pool.
The NFL cap works because owners can’t spin gate revenue into a shell LLC and hide it from the players. MLB owners can and do.
A cap tied to “league revenue” in baseball is a ceiling built on a rigged floor.
Julio was screaming crying in the showers after Game 7 what about that tells you he’s not committed to the Mariners and bringing a World Series to Seattle? Y’all are so ungrateful and self-centered it makes me sick
@LudwigAhgren China is amazing, but prepare for stares. There is far less international tourism in China than Japan. So depending on your route (how often you are outside T1 cities), you'll be the first white person people have seen in person.
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
I wake up to a shitload of people ruing the Dodgers for "breaking" baseball when they have broken no rules. As weird as it sounds, I don't blame the Dodgers for the rot in baseball.
I blame the Twins. The team that did jack shit for two straight years after their best season in decades, nuked the team from orbit due to inexplicably being $425 million in debt, then had ownership pat itself on the back and say they weren't selling the team at all.
I blame the Athletics. Sandbagging for years to get out of Oakland, using that city as a springboard to become a soulless tourist trap in Las Vegas, play in a minor league stadium for several years, then immediately spend the most they've ever done on a free agent once they moved.
I blame the Marlins. Who, despite an admittedly impressive season, have blown up the franchise five times in thirty years.
I blame the Pirates. An ineptly run shitpile featuring completely unnecessary scandals involving a Clemente wall decal and Bucco Bricks found in a landfill.
I blame the Rockies. The nepo team built on incompetence and one gigantic bar disguised as a stadium. The ones who wisely spent their money on an oft-injured Kris Bryant (after paying $50 million to make their franchise face at the same position go away).
I blame the Angels. A franchise that exists to waste generational talents and is so deathly afraid of the luxury tax they'll do anything to avoid it.
And there's more too. No, the Dodgers aren't a primary cause of baseball's rot. They're merely a symptom.