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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Yes I'm sure the small market teams who have less of a chance to compete than ever before will simply shrug their shoulders. Would be a fun lockout though, you'd have 5-8 teams on the players side because they never want a hard cap.
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You're not making sense. Any small market team would love to be able to get a free agent for 2/3s their value. Most players just aren't going to take that though. If he got 70/year straight up, then that is a whole lot harder for small teams to compete with.
The only problematic part for other teams (and maybe the union) is he took a pretty big pay cut to go to the Dodgers. And then there is the whole tax evasion question.