a massive artificial salary cap helps- can Pittsburgh ever afford to go dollar for dollar with a major east or west coast city or Chicago or Houston or Dallas?
Do you even get what you're saying? If you believe this, it's just all the more reason to hate Bud Selig. So he wants a league with a backwards revenue sharing system with no salary cap or floor, ergo a team/market like Pittsburgh just can't properly support a competitive team. If that's the case, why didn't he just move the Pirates to Arizona in the 90's? Did he just leave a team in Pittsburgh to be a doormat for everyone else in the league?
Sure, you could argue that he wanted to keep making money in Pittsburgh, but why should that (money-making) be the sole criterion for judging a commissioner?
Bud Selig has hurt the GAME. In the 60's/70's/80's you never had these stretches where the Braves, Yankees, Red Sox, and Phillies of the world just kept winning division title after division title. It's really freaking lame and predictable. I mean, you had dynasties of course, but the game actually ran in cycles back then and you saw new blood after about 3 years or so. That's because the game didn't have these stupid imbalances like it does today.
