What a bunch of idiots

Imagine this situation. You are a rich dotcommer with money burning a hole in your pocket. So you go out and buy a bunch of racehorses. You get a top trainer, have a top quality barn...total first class because money ain't an object. So you get your business manager to call up Santa Anita and go about talking to the racing secretary to get your horses in races. But wait, the secretary says sorry buddy, new rules. Only horses from our approved list of 30 owners are allowed to race here. You ask how do you get to be on the approved list and he says, well you pay us a bunch of money and if we like you then we put you on the list, otherwise you have to pay another owner off an ungodly amount to take his place. You try for years to get on that exclusive list to no avail, meanwhile you are racing your horses at smaller tracks dreaming of the day your horse makes it to race at Santa Anita. You get the satisfaction of beating some of these horses at Santa Anita in your small track races, but still not enough. Finally you give up when you hear the news, the owners at Santa Anita decided that two owners weren't spending enough on their horses and were bringing up inferior horses that weren't drawing bets. So they paid them off and kicked them out. Sounds like what baseball does!


These baseball owners are pure and simple idiots. If any other business engaged in this type of practice they would be sued like you wouldn't believe. This latest case of stupidity, somehow thinking 50 less players will make the game great, clearly illustrates how illegal their rules are. They treat their game as personal property, but they are going to get screwed soon. They all say "well this last expansion was a terrible decision"...if its so terrible why is the champion one of these two teams?!?!? If Oakland thinks they can make more money in San Jose and a bunch of owners think they can make more money in DC/Virginia, why do they get blocked on the grounds these areas are "other teams property"? Whatever happened to the fair market and outselling the competition with a superior product? I just wonder about these things because it seems like so many people are in favor of this completely unreasonable concept that flies in the face of capitalism. Further what really makes me laugh is how people talk about this great dilution of talent. Lets see how many Dominicans were playing back in 1980? How about Cubans? Koreans? Japanese? They all play a bigger role now and their millions of citizens now can say they too have a chance to play MLB. So maybe you had a pool of 250 milllion back then (Americans/Canadians/a few foreigners) and now you have countries totalling over 1 billion people to find your talent in, now how is that diluting the talent? Don't believe the hype, baseball owners are just ignoring the basic truths of how to make their business better and they are hoodwinking the public into thinking they will solve anything. And they wonder why Dallas-Washington outdraws game 5 of Yankees-A's.