Talkin Badeball...

Let's face it, Major League Baseball isn't perfect. Every year, at least half the teams start the season with full knowledge that they have no shot at conpeting. Worse still, it's predominantly the same team annually. A salary cap has been brought up to even the playing field. That sounds reasonable, but it doesn't stop small market teams from having a minimal payroll. So I've come up with the perfect idra for repairing the competetive imbalance.

Oh, and I'm only half joking here.

Right now there's a soft salary cap. If temas surpass it they have to pay a luxury tax depending on how far over they are. This hasn't discouraged some teams from having a monstrous payroll. So to fix this I suggest we get rid of the luxury tax altogether. Instead, we lower the soft cap. I'm not sure exactly what it should be. We're going to have to discover where the line of demarcation should be.

Anyway, instead of a luxury tax, teams that go over the cap have to have their entire roster regularly submit to both urine and blood tests. Teams that are under don't have to submit to either. In fact, teams that are under the cap are subtelly encouraged to juice.

Look, HGH isn't known for having any terrible side effects. Definately not too worse than most of the medications that most people take anyway. Somewhere down the road HGH will be accepted more readily in the court of public opinion.

So what this does now is make teams with lower salaries a diserable destination for big time free agents. Teams with higher salaries would have to be smart with their money. Of course, there'll be some players who juice for a payday and get off once they sign the big deal. So the Yanks would have to their homework before signing.

Now the only other thing I'd throw in is that current contracts would be grandfathered in. So teams with high salaries wouldn't be tested right away. Only when a contract is altered, extended, or renogtiated would they start being tested.

I don't know, I think this could work.

Peace