Originally posted by 9ers4eva:
The dark secret of why baseball doesn't have a cap isn't because the big spenders don't want it, it's the "low revenue" teams that don't want the salary floor.
As a Yankee fan myself I would disagree thst George was a gift. His dumbass was why the Yanks were terrible in the early 90s. Stick Michael was the key to the late 90s success. The issue today isn't a lack of spending, it's a lack of production from the farm system.
Football could really use a Larry Bird exemption for QBs.
Truth about the cheap owners but seriously. F them.
george was volatile. But I'll take the owner who takes championships over profit. Words out of his own mouth. Yes he was his own worst enemy when younger but I'll take him over Hal any day.
And yes football needs some sort of farm system, I'm not sure the exact answer but it seems we all agree they need someway to better develop players year round.
Larry legend is my favorite basketball player! Don't even get me into the state of that sport. Big money and analytics is killing all these leagues. Sigh
Originally posted by AB81Rules:
Yeah it does seem there is more parity in baseball when it comes to who wins the World Series, there, to my knowledge, haven't been a real dynasty, except the cheating Astros.
The cap does hurt the players more than the owners, players get paid what would be chump change compared these billionaire owners like Jerry Jones, Robert Kraft, etc... But players have seen a huge raise since the cap started in I think '94, when it was like $30M, now it's $255.4M in 2024, a huge jump, the funny thing is had we not gone through a pandemic, the cap would be closer to $300M by now, or at least in the $280M range this year, $300M next year, but the cap stayed flat for I believe 2020, & didn't go up much the next year, finally after the pandemic slowed down, fans were back in the stadiums, then the cap was going up, it's really when those new TV deals kicked in last year did the cap see a huge jump from 2023's $224.8M all the way to $255.4M, a $30.6M raise/jump, no wonder Jared Goff got $53M a yr, and WRs like St. Brown got $28M, & AJ Brown got $32M, or Robert Hunt a G getting $20M a yr, it's just crazy, also remember that fans love to complain about how much a player makes, yet we hardly hear, at least publicly, the fans complaining about owners making millions-billions off the players, like in College, the HC, the Teachers, the AD, etc... all make millions a year off of student athletes, who the NCAA doesn't want to be paid, but it's perfectly fine for someone to get $10M+ a yr as a HC in college, the one thing that all fans complain about, rightfully so, is the price of game tickets, they seem to raise every year.
It is crazy how it's mostly been the Pats & Chiefs over the past 24yrs to win it all, with some teams mixed in.
Yes, the cap does limit what a team can do big time, you can';t keep everyone, not like in baseball if the Yankees wanted to do so.
The issue with player development IMO is there's no minor league system like in Baseball & Hockey where these kids are getting valuable playing time, even if it's not against the best in the MLB & NHL, but still helps develop these guys.
Something I forgot to mention was if there was no cap or draft, the top players would always go to like 5-10 teams, with a cap & draft, you have parity, but it does take a few yrs to develop a guy, 3yrs at least before you can call a pick a bust IMHO.
As for Jerry Jones, he'd probably sign everyone he wanted to sign, but actually knowing how they are in FA, they may not sign big names every year, and yes Steinbrenner was a gift for us Yanks fans, too bad we can't seem to get past the Astros in the playoffs.
Seems we all agree player development is key. Yankees - don't get me started lol. Their pitching and lineup is like this o line. Same s**t every year expecting different results
