You continue to avoid the fundamental points made regarding the patently obvious, and long-term unfairness of the gross payroll discrepancies among teams.
So if the system is fair as it is, and to really bend the argument in your favor with a lot of latitude that grossly understates the magnitude of the discrepancies, you'd put REAL even money bets on the chances of teams in the bottom half of the team payroll rankings, to make the playoffs with the same frequency versus those in the top half?
I know the answer to that question.
So does any child
And so do you.
I’d be happy to be t on that. Decent management can overcome a lot. Watch Tampa over the next several years. Kansas City has had a bad spell, but they’re on the upswing. (The Yankees had long dry spells in the 1960s and 1980s.) There are some others.
Now, teams like Huston that are just incompetently managed have a long road ahead of them. But the Rays, Reds, Royals, and other small market teams figure to be competitive for a while.
Unlike, say, the Mets and Dodgers.