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Originally Posted by Sylvanfan
I think that's not really correct. Salary caps have not stopped the NHL, NBA, or NFL from constantly having the same teams in the finals every year. It's actually worse in these sports than the current MLB system.
Phillies
Yankees
Giants
Cardinals
Giants
Red Sox
Giants
Royals
Cubs
Astro's
Red Sox
Is that list any worse for duplication than what we see in other sports?
Cubs/Astros/Red Sox largely won the last three coming out of rebuilds and collecting home frown talent. Giants are not a welfare team but they we more the home grown pitching of Bungarner/Cain/Lincecum getting them there.
Blue Jays suck because their drafting has been bad and they paid Tuluwitzki and Martin 40 million to do very lititle this past season.
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Point taken. The other three sports have the same teams year after year for a variety of reasons. Canadian teams have done poorly in the NHL due to, I think, poor management more than anything else. The NBA I don't really watch or care about. The NFL, again, is more about poor management.
I'd just like to see a baseball league where the top spending team doesn't have a total salary that's more than 3 times the bottom team. The luxury tax does nothing.
The Jays certainly don't help their own cause by spending poorly.