19bruins19 said:
I agree. Who cares about the Yankees?
I really think Baseball and Hockey have something in common, they both over-expanded. In 1969 MLB had 24 teams and the NHL had 12. In 1969 most MLB teams had 4 starting pitchers, meaning at the most inportant position in MLB, pithcing, there were 96 players. Today there are 30 teams with 5 starters each, or 150 starters, or 54 pithcers that would have never played ijust 35 years ago. Hockey is similar, although the number of teams at 12 was not enough 30 is certainly to many. In a perfect world, there should be no more than 20 NHL teams, which means about 230 players would be gone. That would lower salaries, simple supply and demand. Both sports must do something to solve the problem, which is a lot bigger issue in Hockey, simply because of the revenues. The NHL owners are to blame for getting the league in this position, but the players are also to blame because they fail to recognize it.
By the way, I am a Yankee fan, and I do realize baseball is broken, but remember this, the last baseball CBA, the Yankees were the only team to vote against it, because the Luxury tax would not be earmarked for salaries. Teams like the Reds put that money in their pockets. One reason a Tax would be ineffective.