One other thing.....

[catsfan20012002]

they also had someone on to talk about the ways baseball can improve itself before they lose whatever place they have on the national sports landscape. During this interview they talked about how to get more minorities to play the game and things like that. Well.....What about the lack of competitive balance? Not a word on that.

[Kat Kid]

they also had someone on to talk about the ways baseball can improve itself before they lose whatever place they have on the national sports landscape. During this interview they talked about how to get more minorities to play the game and things like that. Well.....What about the lack of competitive balance? Not a word on that.

2006- St. louis vs. Detroit
2005- Chicago vs. Houston
2004- Boston vs. St. Louis
2003- Florida vs. New York
2002- Anaheim vs. San Fran
2001- Arizona vs. New York
2000- New York vs. New York
1999- New York vs. Atlanta
1998- New York vs. San Diego
1997- Florida vs. Cleveland
1996- New York vs. Atlanta

10 years.  14 teams.  7 different champs.  Compare this to Basketball, Football and College and you'll see that "competitive inbalance" is stupid.

[michigancat]

Is baseball really "losing it's place", anyway?

[Dan Rydell]

There's not a lack of competitive balance.

[catsfan20012002]

Try watching SportsCenter during the season and tell me how many weeks it takes you to get sick of hearing about New York and Boston. I'll set it at 2.5 and take the Under.

[Kat Kid]

Try watching SportsCenter during the season and tell me how many weeks it takes you to get sick of hearing about New York and Boston. I'll set it at 2.5 and take the Under.

competitive SportsCenter imbalance?

[Dan Rydell]

Try watching SportsCenter during the season and tell me how many weeks it takes you to get sick of hearing about New York and Boston. I'll set it at 2.5 and take the Under.

That's your argument for competitive imbalance? 

Wow.

[catsfan20012002]

Try watching SportsCenter during the season and tell me how many weeks it takes you to get sick of hearing about New York and Boston. I'll set it at 2.5 and take the Under.

That's your argument for competitive imbalance? 

Wow.

How about this then.....In the last 5 years the Royals are 321-489 (.396) and 83 of those wins came in a season when half of the team was doing steroids.

[Dan Rydell]

Try watching SportsCenter during the season and tell me how many weeks it takes you to get sick of hearing about New York and Boston. I'll set it at 2.5 and take the Under.

That's your argument for competitive imbalance? 

Wow.

How about this then.....In the last 5 years the Royals are 321-489 (.396) and 83 of those wins came in a season when half of the team was doing steroids.

One team that sucks because of managerial incompetence isn't a better argument.

[catsfan20012002]

I'm sorry but it's hard to take a sport seriously that when they're making their season predictions they talk about teams in terms of payroll. That's all I'm trying to say.

[pissclams]

I'm sorry but it's hard to take a sport seriously that when they're making their season predictions they talk about teams in terms of payroll. That's all I'm trying to say.

Hopefully they do better this year, I'm optimistic that we stay out of the basement of a very tough division.

[Dan Rydell]

I'm sorry but it's hard to take a sport seriously that when they're making their season predictions they talk about teams in terms of payroll. That's all I'm trying to say.

Again, it sounds to me like your problem isn't with the sport itself, but with the commentators. Last year, the World Series was won by the 11th-highest payroll, who defeated the 14th-highest payroll.   The American League playoffs featured the 1st, 14th, 19th, and 21st place payrolls.  The last-place payroll was in the playoff hunt in their division for much of the year. 

You hear about New York and Boston all the time because ESPN is in Bristol, Connecticut.

[Super PurpleCat]

We hear about New York and Boston all the time because Kansas City is a farm club for them.

[Houstoncat93]

I'm sorry but it's hard to take a sport seriously that when they're making their season predictions they talk about teams in terms of payroll. That's all I'm trying to say.

Maybe the reason you hear about payroll in baseball and not the other major sports is because all the other major sports have a little thing called a salary cap.  The discussions in the other sports in the off-season are always about cap-room and how team x can make moves and team y can't.