2025 MLB Playoffs!

[jayshum]

Originally Posted by CollectingAmericasPastime

Baseball can heal now since this solidifies the need for changes to the structure of the MLB. Salary cap and true revenue sharing incoming.

Players union will never agree to a salary cap.

[BobbyStrawberry]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Players union will never agree to a salary cap.

That's what I'd like to think, but months and months of corporate media coverage about the "greedy" players might change their tune

[Balticfox]

Originally Posted by BobbyStrawberry

That's what I'd like to think, but months and months of corporate media coverage about the "greedy" players might change their tune

No need for additional media coverage. Most fans are already convinced of that detail.

[CollectingAmericasPastime]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

How about we just agree that billionaires shouldn't buy baseball teams if they arent going to spend a lot of money to keep them competitive?

(it's a really good time to be a billionaire in this country, if you haven't heard.)

I don't disagree, but the league itself can't be dominated by 1/3rd of the markets - the top 10 markets - like it has been. The NFL has a garbage product on the field but a superior product off the field. The salary cap and revenue sharing is what has built their high platform. Baseball needs to shift towards the NFL off-the-field model.

Originally Posted by jayshum

Players union will never agree to a salary cap.

Oh no... a player's union crying about unfair wages and working conditions while wiping their tears with handfuls of Benjamins. Poor them.

I'm fully ok missing some baseball in 2027 if it means getting the structure within baseball resolved so that all 30 markets have a more equal opportunity shot at a World Series. I'm not on either side, owner nor player. I simply want smaller markets to be able to retain their homegrown superstars.

[rats60]

Originally Posted by jayshum

Players union will never agree to a salary cap.

Maybe after going a year without any pay they will change their minds. You know they said they would never agree to drug testing too.