Nice thougt but you'd be the only one watching and therein is the problem. TV doesn't want the Pirates vs the Royals in a WS. They want the Dodgers vs the Yanks.

I disagree Bernie - I think many people would feel the same way as dman regarding this. I too get so sick and tired of the same teams over and over.

Kinda like I got sooo sick and tired of Tiger Woods. Let someone else take the lead. Yeah, the guy plays well but it gets old.

NOBODY needs mega-million dollar contracts. NOBODY. Make the game affordable again for the average Joe.

All you small team small market fleebs should spend the money that the luxury tax brings to your greedy slimey money grubbing owners instead of stuffing it in their pockets. I'm against any sort of salary cap in MLB, it will destroy the game as it has with the NFL and NBA. The minute they instatute a salary cap, is the very last time I will ever watch or attend a game, period. I just think the ones at newsvine posing these questions are New York haters that are jealous of our quality of life here in New York... and they should all watch their families get ebola and suffer until the very end!

Great New York Team as usual. Padres doing okay with low rent players-probably won't be going to the series, but fun to watch--probably will trade them when they get too expensive.

Very classy to wish ebola on a family.

BJs65-634377 - I sure hope you don't run a business! LOL! Even though the public will pay $10 for the item, sell it for $5.00 so the "average Joe" can afford it! LOL!

I'd love to drive a Lambourghini, but I flat can't afford it. Should Lambo lower their prices so people like me can afford one? Of course not! The choices I made in life have put me where I am and in the income bracket that I am today. If I can't afford the car I want, that's my fault...guess I should have made better choices.

I just think the ones at newsvine posing these questions are New York haters that are jealous of our quality of life here in New York... and they should all watch their families get ebola and suffer until the very end!

...and reading your post one wonders, why would anybody hate New York?

Nothing in sports is worth wishing the Ebola virus on anybody.

Moving back on subject, I think the reason a lot people don't watch the final championship games in most sports is because the playoffs are so !#@$ long. In basketball, you play an 82 game season to eliminate about half the teams. This year, both the Celtics and the Lakers had to go through 3 or 4 series before the finals. By the time the the seventh game of the finals was played, the only people outside of Boston or L.A. watching the game were probably the wives and families of some of the players.

If they cut this down to just 3 series, meaning 2 eastern conference semi-finals and one championship round, the games might have more meaning.

Nissan, I have a choice. I can be stupid enough to pay for over priced tickets - or I can spend my money on something that actually gives me the value for the dollar.

We "Average Joes" have more power than we realize.

Go right ahead and spend your money as you are. Don't come crying to me when you lose your job and can no longer afford your spendthrift lifestyle.

Dak they already do that it is called Revenue sharing

The description of revenue sharing that was given is NOT what is actually happening. The Yankees keep every cent that they get from YES, from Fox, ESPN, etc. The Rays get to keep every cent of their local media contracts, The same is true of every team. And don't for as little as one second think that the local media revenue in, say KC, is anywhere close to what the Cubs, the Mariners, etc get.

THe current so-called "revenue sharing" plan is a joke.

They do share Fox and ESPN, YES is owned by the Yankees so they are entitled to every cent. I agree KC has no chance there and is one of the few teams that is left out in the cold but then again the unbalanced schedule hurts KC as well. AS far as the current revenue sharing being a joke I have to disagree there are too many owners that do not want to spend a dime on their team and even with a salary cap would continue to stick it to their fans, Remember when George bought the Yankees from CBS for $10 million they were a losing team in an old outdated stadium and he turned it into a $1.2 billion dollar empire, why shouldn't he be allowed to spend what he wants as long as the team can generate the revenue to pay for it. On top of that it remember there are 8 other professional sports teams in New York for the Yankees to compete with.

Is it any different then the millions an actor gets for a movie, or the millions that a singer or musician get in a record contract? Baseball salaries if you actually take a look at aren't all because of the Yankees. If you go back to 1995 after the strike the owners all decided to remain fiscally responsible at the urging of the owners rep. Jerry Reisendorf the owner of the White Sox who then turned around and threw $55 million at Albert Belle and then it got out of hand when the Dodgers went over the $100 million mark for Kevin Brown and then totally absurd when Tom Hicks of the Rangers shelled out $250 million for A-Rod each time these bars were set the players looked at their numbers and felt they were worth more. But in reality ticket proces are still in line with other forms of entertainment. A day even at Yankee Stadium is on line with Broadway Shows, a day at 6 Flags or Disney and less then a trip to a Football or Basketball game. By the way at Yankee Stadium bleacher seats start at $5.00 and grandstand seats start at $20 not a bad bargain.

Do not delude yourself into believing that ticket prices will go down if there is a salary cap. Ticket and concession prices will stay right where they are. A salary cap will shift a huge portion of revenue from the players, who are the ones out on the field every day to the owners, who watch games from an air conditioned luxury box whist drinking high-end liquor. The fan will still be paying high ticket prices, buying $15 hot dogs and drinking $10 beer because that is what the market will bear.

Well then whose fault is it then for these high ticket prices? Hmm? THE FANS.

They are dumb enough to pay those prices. Simply not go until prices are reduced is what needs to be done.

I agree there needs to be a floor if you put a cap in place and I agree the Umpires are getting bad but I wonder how much of that has to do with the fact you can no longer argue a ball or strike call and the fact with HD wecan see it better. I also feel the umpire crew run by Joe West has an ulterior motive for the way they want to control a game especially Angel Hernandez the worst of all umpires when he is behind the plate I turn off the game no matter who is playing, they forget we don't pay to see the umpires we come to see the players. But on your other comment adding more teams to the NYC area actually when MLB was looking for a home for the Expos Northern NJ and the NYC area was proven to be able to support more teams then the Yankees and Mets but if you added more teams it would hurt the Mets and a lot of minor league teams before the Yankees even noticed any drop in attendance. There are millions of people in the NY/NJ area that are will never drive into NY unless they can go on a once a year bus trip to a stadium. Good reason the Lakewood Blue Claws ( Philadelphis Single A) do very well and the Trenton Thunder ( NYY Double A) and the Brooklyn Cyclones ( Mets Single A) and Staten Island Yankees ( NYY Single A) do well when it comes to attendance. The Trenton Thunder usually sell out so yes the NYC area can handle more teams but the Yankees would barely feel it.

Bottom line is the higher the payroll the higher the odds of making the playoffs. You are basing your facts off of winning the World Series, how about the fact that the Yankees have been in the playoffs about 14 of the past 15 years and during that time period have been the highest payroll team every year. Its all about making the playoffs than its anyones games. Now for the Red Sox, they had nothing until they picked up free agents and blew their payroll up to 100million for their WS and than paid more for folks like Beckett to gain their next one. Its been the Red Sox and Yankees in the playoffs from the East for the past decade more or less. Sure the Rays slipped in but when ya stink for so long, sooner or later all the #1 draft picks should get ya somewhere unless Management stinks too. Sure some owners are not going to spend but you need to remember it is a business and practicially any other team who would spend 200million a year on payroll would be almost 100million a year loss, last year most MLB teams lost $. Sure some orginizations like the Twins are good but they are close to max payroll close to 100million. Every year I look at the top 10 salaried teams, pick 3 in each division of each league and than 2 surprises with lower payrolls and I get pretty close on who makes it. If the Yankees are that good of an orginization lets see them make the playoffs with half their payroll. There are no guarantees in sports but the facts are facts and the numbers show that the odds are in the favor to the teams with higher payrolls making the playoffs.

The Yankees and several other teams have repeated inculding the Twins so it isn't only the big market Yankees.

More parity could actually be bad for baseball... if the Yankees become an average baseball team do you think fans will still pack the house on road games? You can see thousands of empty seats at a lot of ballparks, but when the Red Sox or Yankees visit, it's a packed house. More parity, means more mediocrity, which means less fans.

Anthony that is a very good point but from the other side, in order to be a commodity in NY you have to compete with alot of other forms of entertainment as well as 8 other professional sports teams including another professional baseball team. It is still about building on an investment and just as any other business or form of entertainment you have to invest in your product to make money. Buying players does not gaurantee a World Series look back at 2005 and 2006 the roster were stacked and they never made it out of the first round, in 2008 again with a big payroll they never made the playoffs but in each of those years they did sell tickets and that is the name of the game. Look back through the early to mid 1980's rosters with names like Winfield, Mattingly and Henderson in pinstripes they never even made the post seasonWhen George bought the Yankees I believe they were averaging 14000 a game now they average 42000 a game and getting to the stadium is no picnic especially if you drive in so yes the Yankees instead of living off other teams and staying complacent invested and built an empire.

they are a bunch of cry babies

I understand what your saying, however we want sports to be sports and not a business. Capitalism in business is good, but when the playing fields are swayed towards the teams with higher payrolls (higher payrolls=higher skilled players) in sports its a bit different. The facts are the odds of making the playoffs increase when the payroll is higher, its fact and documented. The Yankees would not have 25 WS championships if not for being the highest payroll team most of those years.

UAW most of the Yankees World Series Victories come from a time before free agency and since that time very few were won with big free agents. Most of the WS teams were built with trades and retaining their own players. !996 through 2000 were teams put together through great trades and not letting their own players walk not by buying alot of other big names.

Good idea but still not going to generate anywhere near the amount of $ in small market areas like KC who only has a few million folks. Less people, less demand, less demand means lower prices, lower prices means less revenue, less revenue means lower profits, lower profits means lower payroll, lower payroll means lower talent, lower talent generally (i did say generally) means lower winning percentages and even if a team becomes competitive the ability to keep the talent becomes a drain to keep other talent or aquire more talent and sustain winning. Other sports have addressed salary, its time BB does as its turned off many.

Brian sounds like you didnt get enough Daddy time growing up. Maybe baseball is just too complicated for you? It isnt as slow as Golf which you probably love or Tennis your second fav?? Baseball is the true American sport. And if its just old folks then why is Little League baseball the most active youth sport in the country even surpassing your beloved Soccer

Why must you degrade a conversation to playground insults about "daddy time"? Little League baseball is the most popular because there's the everyday american dad who has the "my kid's gonna be the next Jeter so help me god" attitude. Personally, the only sport I would consider myself a die-hard for is Hockey, so whenever you're done jumping to conclusions, maybe a real conversation could surface.

Dave there are alot of owners that don't want to spend and therefore would be against a cap just as those owners that do spend. The players union would not allow it and even if all sides were to agree there is no prof the fans would still come out. I own season tickets, I have invested the money and if the teams were diluted to a parity level I may not invest in an entire year and just buy single games now and then. Part of my ability to afford season tickets is the ability to resell a good amount of them on the secondary market, I can't go to 81 games but if I was unable to sell off 50 or so games every year no I can't take that chance. I am sure there a lot of people in my position that can afford to buy tickets and support the team because the level of players on the field are a draw.

It isn't all George's fault, did George give $55 million to Albert Belle? Did George give $100 million to Kevin Brown? Did George give $250 million to Alex Rodriquez? ( talking free agent here not retention and lets face reality there is no other team that could afford him now and still stock a 40 man roster) Did George give Jay Bell a lifetime .260 hitter $39 million. Everytime money like this was thrown out there it upped the price tag for other players. It wasn't until last year that the Yankees finally spent big but remember also to retain Jeter, Rivera, Posada, Cano and other top name players they have had over the years the big contracts other teams threw out there drove up the price of their own free agents. It isn't George that drove the market up but a lot of other teams that spent big and then couldn't afford to pay after.

agreed 100%! Selig's time is over, and should have been over after his repeated failures in trying to get the steroid scandals under control. He allowed the players union to walk all over him for years, and still has his job. How the fudge did that happen? - It would be like if, say, someone was hired by the President to clean up the Minerals Management Service, did nothing, and then watched as that inattentiveness contributed to one of the biggest oil industry disasters we've ever seen, and still kept his government job. - And that's just ludicrous.

Where do standing seats cost $20, not in NY upper deck seats start at $20 and bleachers start at $5.00. I have season tickets in NY and even my seats in the second deck are $45.00 a seat not that outrageous either.