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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Baseball needs ... a relegation/promotion system. Then you'd freakin have something.
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But, really, doesn't every sport need this? How many teams in every US sports league just phone it in all or a lot of the time, or at least once every few years, just because they can finish in last, and people will still come to the games, and they'll get a good draft pick
I hate to hold glorious, glorious soccer, especially the EPL, up as a shining example, but teams fight like hell every year[1] because the bottom three out of twenty go down to the lower league, and the top three of the lower league come up. And so on down the line of all the leagues.
And the market works pretty well to compensate winners and punish losers, because the differences in revenue are significant, and then the teams with lower or higher revenue (both as a result of success and as a result of failure) can buy or sell the contracts of players.[2]
[1] And I expect that you, str8, know this, as there must certainly be some soccer watched in that British-style trivia pub where you and the Mrstr8er are smiling for the camera.
[2] I admit that I can't really totally justify the "market" statement, since I admit that I don't know how much free agency there is and how that whole set-up works, but I think that might be preferable, from a health of the game standpoint, than the situation we have here, where there are a few guys with exorbitant salaries in long-term contracts and a majority of the guys around the same still very generous salary.
