Relax dude.

There is no reason some of these guys should be getting paid what they are when they don’t actually perform.

I hate how Darius Miles is on our cap, but he is not playing with us, he probably wont even play in the league this year! NBA is an awful system, that has a lot of stupid rules like the luxury tax going down! What idiot came up with that idea? How about the luxury tax goes up when the cap goes up, and but remains at the same level if the cap goes down? Is that not a good, and fair idea? That way we dont see a bunch of BS trades like with Carter and Jefferson. Also trading in the NBA sucks, you never see trades made based on talent, 90% are based on matching salaries alone. (Like Jefferson and Carter)

I love baseballs system a lot better then the NBA. I think what seperates it is the minor league system. Its fun following ur team and also following ur prospects, it also makes it better for trading. Look at the Phils, they just got Cliff Lee and they didnt trade a single one of there major league players. The down side is that many smaller market teams do have to trade there good players eventually becasue there price gets too high. But is it really any diffrent then the NBA? If it werent for Paul Allen we would be in a similar situation in a couple years where we would have to give up some of our talent.

Both are flawed, but I think MLB is superior even though it has no cap (revenue sharing evens the playing field to a point). I could care less about football, mainly because they could care less about me, the fan.

they have the least parity of all the major leagues. people kill baseball as a sport where only big markets win but it is in fact the nba where this trend is most prevalent.

28 of the last 30 finals have been won by 6 teams.

la: 9 (7 post cap)
chicago: 6
boston: 4 (2 post cap)
san antonio: 4
detroit: 3
houston: 2

admittedly 5 of those finals were pre salary cap but even if you take those out. the number you get is 6 teams winning 22 of the last 25 finals.

in the last 30 years 18 different teams have won the world series despite there never being even a soft salary cap.

football for all it’s boasting about it’s “parity” shows a trend much more similar to the nba than baseball.

for instance, only 2 teams in its history won 3 of 4 superbowls and one of them was in the salary cap era (new england). new england also has the only 16 and 0 season in history also under the salary cap.

indianapolis is the only team in history to have 5 seasons of 11 wins or more ( all in the salary cap era ). pittsburgh, indy & new england account for 7 of the last 10 afc appearances in the superbowl and 6 of the last 10 superbowl victories. all of this occured under the salary cap.

while the nfc has shown more parity overall the eagles have played in half of the conference games over the last 10 years.

while i wouldn’t advocate changing the rules in the nba to make trading easier if the desired effect of these restrictions was to create more parity and give more teams a shot at the title, the rules have been a total failure.

moreover baseball for all it gets bagged on for being only about new york and boston has spread the championship love more evenly than the other major sports in recent history.

The harder the cap, the less parity their really seems to be. The NFL is really hard to watch because no teams are truly far above average. There is no excellence. A great coach like Belichik can win every year because coaching is the only place you can accumulate talent in the NFL. Only the same few teams seem to dominate year in and year out. Who cares of small market teams are in the playoff hunt more often if they really don’t have a chance to win.

The NBA is better than the NFL but still, only a handful of teams ever win the title. It’s the same teams challenging for the title pretty much since 1960. Boston, LA, Chicago had their run, Houston, Spurs recently, and Detroit for 20 years. Who else has really been there?

MLB, for all its flaws, has different teams winning the title almost every year. The great thing about MLB is that if you get in the playoffs, anything can happen because in baseball and hockey, the best team rarely wins; the hot team wins. MLB has had so many different teams in the WS lately I can’t even name them all.

MLB in my opinion takes way too much heat because the results clearly state that MLB has the most true parity measured by different champions over the last two decades or more. You can’t buy championships and the Yankees, Baltimore, the Mets, and the Red Sox prove that every year.