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Just before winter break, two of my esteemed Crimson colleagues--Messrs. Michael R. Volonnino '01 and Alex M. Sherman '04--wrote separate columns bemoaning the current state of the game. Sherman went so far as to advocate a salary cap resembling the one in place in other professional sports leagues. Volonnino, though not advocating an outright salary cap, proposed a luxury tax. This, however, is just as troubling seeing as it still imposes a limit, albeit permeable, on spending...
...salary cap? Ugh, guys, no thanks. And no to anything remotely like it.But in light of all the criticism that they and others have leveled at the current system, let's see if we can't get beyond the hysteria and examine baseball's situation rationally...
...number of reasons, ranging from a lack of fan support to organizational mismanagement. (Montreal, for one, has no business hosting a baseball franchise. It is time for the league to move that team to Vegas or northern Virginia and move on.) But will a salary cap solve the problems of these teams? Well, how much has such a cap helped the Clippers in the NBA? Or the Bengals...
...that they finished tied for the worst record in baseball last year. They have money to spend, they just don't do it wisely. This is an organization that shelled out more than six million clams per year for Jose Mesa and Rheal Cormier last month. Surely a salary cap would not prevent that kind of stupidity...
Which is why a salary cap is the wrong way to go. Institute one, and all you do is shift the balance of power between the players and owners in favor of the owners. Is that really preferable? Personally, I would rather see the players make their money than the fat-cat owners. The athletes, after all, are the ones we all pay to go see, and we have already witnessed what happens when owners are afforded too much power. You need only look to the retired hockey old-timers who were taken advantage of during their playing days...