Don't get me wrong, there are some nice things about baseball, especially Little League and Minor League Baseball. But here's a list - by no means an all-inclusive list - of why Major League Baseball sucks:
It's slow, the games are way too long.
There is no salary cap or effective revenue sharing, so 1) the teams in the biggest cities and media markets make the highest revenue, which they 2) use to get the best players, which means that 3) the same teams are good/bad every year.
No instant replay. And as verified by this year's playoffs, the umpiring is not that great.
It's boring. Incredibly, the post-season is actually more boring than the regular season, because people care more about football in the Fall, and again, it's always the same teams in the post-season.
Three words: Performance enhancing drugs.
I couldn't agree with you more.
ReplyDelete-Will Streff III
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