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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
The NFL offers the illusion of parity, but there's always 4-6 teams that are so much better run than everyone else that they generally dominate. It's just the NFL offers hope that the MLB never really can. Washington fans were utterly hopeless two years ago with Snyder and Rivera, and now they can dream big. In the MLB it just doesn't happen, or rarely does. Even when the Astros tanked hard it took 4-6 years before that bore fruit.
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In the short run that's true - the powerhouse teams can't be caught.
But over the course of a fans life you can expect to see your team be a powerhouse as well even if theyre a small market. See: Chiefs, Kansas City.
I think that's quite a bit less likely in baseball, and while midmarket teams do have success it's less likely and less sustained, imo.