[FrankWakefield]

Golly... my contrarian nature revs up again...

I think Baseball's exemption keeps the game from being worse than it could be, and that we'd be better off if that lawsuit is quickly over.

McDonalds... once in a while I drive through one for lunch (or I run inside and order to go if the car lines are crazy long). I usually order a McDouble, no onions, an apple pie, and water. (Think slightly older version of minor leagues.) But one day I order a Quarter pounder with cheese, no onions, meal... that's fries and a Coke. I order that for the next several orders. Then one day I come to my senses, realize I don't need the Coke, nor those fries that don't biologically break down (and if one falls under the car seat, when found a year later it looks the same), nor that big of a sandwich... so I try to revert back to a sensible (for me) level of consumption and go back to McDouble, apple pie, and water. "No," they say, "once you start ordering larger meals, you can't revert back and scale down your order." (Think MLB can't down scaling their minor league system.)

Where does it stop?

MLB, you can't go back and have just one day game in the World Series

Nor can you have a shorter season.

No, you can't raise ticket prices.

You can't make the bases 3" bigger. (Which would decrease the distance between the bags by 4 1/2", think about it.)

No, twenty years from now you can't expand and add any Major League franchises.

No, you can't add additional minor league teams; all ML franchises must have the same number and levels of minor league teams.



I'm not saying MLB isn't broken... I'm saying that lawsuit won't fix it and may well make it worse.