Union Hardball
If you look at BK Kim and Clint Barmes you see the disperency in talent and in paychecks in the game today. The $6 million dollar man, is washed up and the minimum wage rookie is staring in Sports Illustrated. Throughout the game there are over priced old stars, that quickly became old, and small. Sort of like mini-Sammy is a microcosm of the whole league. You look at the shoulders of some of the players and you notice players are getting back to a normal size. Banning steroids will be a blessing for the game, but until all the old remains are purged, there still will be questions. The other question in the game is how to give each team an equal chance of winning. Baseball should be ashamed for what it has done to the Kansas City Royals. How can you expect a team to have a chance, when they were forced to give up their best player, Carlos Beltran, because they could not pay him what he was worth. Each team must have the same budget to work with. Unless this happens each year there will be more Kansas City Royals throughout the land. It just isn’t fair that one team is spending over $300 million in salary and tax, and other teams less than $40 million. The solution is to come up with a salary structure like that used in the NFL. If each team should put up $100 Million for salaries that would mean a total of $3 Billion in total for all players. Each team would have 5 players making $500,000. Five players making $1 million, 5 players making $3 million. 5 players making $5.5 million and 5 players making $10 million. Tell the players union this is how it will be and if they don’t like it they can start their own league. Next year 2006 is when this needs to be implemented
I am the The Fan’s Commish
Rick Swanson