OnlyBucs

675A5D475A5D330 wrote: Nobody hates on Tom Hanks getting paid 20 million to be in a crappy movie.


True...but, here's the difference. Tom Hanks making that much bank in a movie doesn't really price average people out of a theatre or prevent people from subscribing to Netflix, or renting a movie on iTunes or whatever. Second, his payment doesn't prevent MGM, or 21st Century Fox, or Disney, or Icon, or any other studio from producing movies. Professional sports, by their very nature, are a different ball of wax, so to speak. For the league, any league, to thrive, every team has to have a chance to be champions. The has been the knock on the English Premier League for a long time. For decades, it was a foregone conclusion that one of four teams would win the title. Baseball isn't close to being at that level, but the league as a whole does have a vested interest in promoting a level playing field.

7C7477405673545B350 wrote: Nobody hates on Tom Hanks getting paid 20 million to be in a crappy movie.


True...but, here's the difference.  Tom Hanks making that much bank in a movie doesn't really price average people out of a theatre or prevent people from subscribing to Netflix, or renting a movie on iTunes or whatever.  Second, his payment doesn't prevent MGM, or 21st Century Fox, or Disney, or Icon, or any other studio from producing movies.  Professional sports, by their very nature, are a different ball of wax, so to speak.  For the league, any league, to thrive, every team has to have a chance to be champions.  The has been the knock on the English Premier League for a long time.  For decades, it was a foregone conclusion that one of four teams would win the title.  Baseball isn't close to being at that level, but the league as a whole does have a vested interest in promoting a level playing field.


The vested interest in level playing field was seemingly taken care of by adding the second wild card. Now half the teams are in contention for playoffs after the All Star game. We know most of those teams are pretenders but it gives the casual fan hope and every time a team makes a run it makes the system seem fair (even though we know it isn't).



I don't see the playing field getting any leveler in the CBA. It would be interesting to know what kind of system NH and Bob Nutting.