[SamAdams76]

I supposed you don't like capitalism either in which major corporations employ "revenue sharing" among their field offices to ensure maximum benefit to the company as a whole. Case in point, McDonalds will use revenues generated by existing restaurants to build restaurants in new areas, even though the restaurants are in many cases independently owned.

MLB baseball is not a collection of separate entities. Each team is a franchise and and the success of all franchises helps MLB as a whole. Realizing that has helped make the NFL - with their salary caps and revenue sharing - the richest sport of all. And that is what capitalism is all about.

[ASDFGHJK]

That's an interesting way to look at baseball, but, ultimately, the best team wins. That's good for the game, isn't it? When the invisible hand is allowed to work, when the marketplace adjusts salaries, ticket and hot dog rates? Players should play to win, according to the rules of the game. Managers should manage to win, according to the rules of the game. Shouldn't owners own to win, according to the rules of the game of ownership?

The unions seem to be obsessed with rewriting the rules that apply to ownership -- the rules of economics, that is. But, that's what unions do.

[ASDFGHJK]

I mean, the more I think about it, the more it sickens me. How about a game where there is 'talent sharing,' so that all teams do equally well? (im wretching).

By extension, how about a batter that holds back so that the other team can 'excell' a little?

That would kill the game. And, considering how just about every other 'issue' in this new day winds up being handled -- in a way that noooooo one is offended -- I suppose that is what will happen.

As I stated above, baseball and socialism don't mix. But that won't stop people from trying to mix them, as they do everywhere else.

Is it me -- ribbet -- or is the water in this pot getting warm?