IN MY OPINION : THE STATE OF MAJOR TEAM SPORTS!

10/23/2010Today is a Saturday in the fall. It's in the middle the NFL season, the MLB playoffs are going on,& the NBA is between the pre & regular seasons. The reasons for this blog entry are the impeding NBA & NFL lockout, ALCS & Commerical Appeal sports enterprise columnist Dan Wolken 's column about the NBA.In this column & later yesterday on his radio show, Wolken stated that a lockout would not be bad if at the end of it the NBA adopted a "Hard Salary Cap" meaning a team could not go it in spending for salaries. In a "Soft Cap" teams can go over the cap for certain reasons, to a certain point, or if they payed a Luxury Tax. That this would help the Memphis Grizzlies

 I disagree, In my opinion a hard cap would fix nothing & is an attempt by owners to lower player salaries. During this summer while NBA Commissioner David Stern claimed owner were losing money NBA owner spent like they were doing just fine. Nobody knows the truth about the money because NBA wouldn't show their financial records. That is not the main reason Wolken  likes a hard. The main reason is competitive balance like the NHL & NFL. It is true the NFL with 13 different champion since 1990 has a balance, while the NBA with dynasties has had only 7 different since 1990. It should also be noted the MLB has had 12. MLB with no salary cap has almost as many different champion as the NFL. And NHL is the last place anyone should look to when it comes to advice for running a league, the MLS is more important than them now!

This has to do with why the leagues are in trouble, Ownership & Management. The reason why the Grizzlies are bad in the owner Michael Heisley. A man who last year made money on the grizzlies, LET ME REPEAT THAT, MADE MONEY ON THE GRZZLIES! It should also be noted that the LA Clippers also make money. WHY THEY ARE CHEAP! That also a reason why players don't want to go there. They know they will lose. Sometime they do spend money usually on bad player, decisions or both (see Thabeet). After a luxury tax was started in MLB many small teams took the money they received from richer teams & pocketed it instead of spending. Some small teams have spent the money like the Twins. After last night & watching Cliff Lee beat the Yankees in a earlier game, thanks to MLB making "in my opinion"  Seattle trade him to Texas instead of NY. I think MLB cares to much for balance & cost the Yankees the World Series!

Instead of changing rules the leagues should consider changing who makes the rules.