..........a salary cap.........baseball will be the looser .

2000 Yankees: 92,938,260
2001 D'Backs: 85,247,999
2002 Angels: 61,721,667
2003 Marlins: 48,750,000
2004 Red Sox: 127,298,500
2005 Black Sox: 75,178,000
2006 Scuminals: 88,891,371
2007 Red Sox: 143,026,214
2008 Phillies: 98,269,881
2009 Yankees: $201,449,289

We shouldn't be worrying about a salary cap. Obviously it would hurt us more then other teams in the league.

I’m guessing that Bay or Holliday will be patrolling LF for the Yankees next year, most likely Holliday. I wonder what the Cardinals are going to do if the Yankees or Red Sox come calling for Pujols. You think they’ll be so supportive of the Yankees and “buying” a Championship then? I can already tell you which teams will make the post season next year.

NY Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Los Angeles Angels
Los Angeles Dodgers
Philadelphia Phillies
NY Mets

That leaves two “wildcard” spots. One in the NL and one in the AL. Word has it the Mets are going to break the bank this offseason to get a leg up on the Phillies.

It’s a joke when you have a “sport” where based on money in salaries you can predict who is going to make the postseason. It’s a bigger joke that half the teams in your “sport” have no chance to get there next year, or any time soon.

Name 15 teams with no playoff shot next year...

I doubt you can get 15. 10, maybe.

Big cities deserve big salaries. If middling towns like KC can't afford a quality club then they don't deserve it.

There are small town teams that are perrennial contenders. Minnesota. The Marlins. Then there are complete jokes like Pittsburgh and Kansas City.

But honestly, we're Chicago. We have a huge fan base, a huge market. We deserve a big payroll. Stop whining.

The Cubs can't win a championship even while outspending every other team in the National League, how do you expect them to do it when they can only spend as much as everyone else? We need the advantage just to compete (and fail).

How can the yanks and redsox make the playoffs from the AL and then the phils and the mets make it in the NL and their be a wild card spot open in the AL and the NL...You only have the East and West mentioned in your post where is the Central...I didnt know the Central became the wild card

But, you can not have a salary cap in a sport with so many teams that will not spend money....Where will the players go from the yankees if there was a salary cap....The Royals, Pirates, Rays, Twins, Marlins, Orioles, A's, Reds, Padres, Rockies and Diamondbacks all do not spend money...they like to trim money when ever their prospects get to expensive... Thats 1/3 of the teams that do not spend money...so what I am trying to say is that the players that are on teams that a have high payrolls have to let go or trade to trim payroll so they can meet the salary cap will have no where to go and then will petition for the their not to be a salary cap....As much as I hate how the Yankees just by a championship like they are getting them from the store...they have every right to spend as much money as they see fit to win a championship.

royals
reds
pirates
orioles
blue jays
indians
mariners
A's
washington
d backs
padres
giants
braves

there's 13

You're really stretching on a few of these teams.. Giants? Braves? are you kidding me?? NO CHANCE at the playoffs?? I happen to disagree.. They're both gonna have top 3 pitching staffs and if they can scrape up enough offense they could very well make it.. just my honest opinion

good pitching automatically gives you a chance in my opinion

zero chance. Great pitching this year and the Giants and Braves played who in the playoffs?

Nobody. If you can't answer that then you don't know much about baseball.. You're ignorant to think they have "zero chance".. You were also probably one of the people who thought Bradley was the answer and the cubs had a "100 percent chance" of making the playoffs. They were both close this year, stay close and you always have a CHANCE.

Peace fuhreaaak

Of course it was nobody, that was the point. Man you're dense. They had great pitching this year and realistically had no chance. The Braves weren't going to pass the Phillies and couldn't hang for the wild card. Same way with the Giants. No chance to beat the Dodgers and couldn't keep pace in the wild card race.

giants finished 4 out of the wild card, braves 6. If you believe that to be close, you're more clueless than I imagined and that's saying a lot. they had no chance this year. Zero, zip, nada.

Okay we can agree to disagree...

we definitely disagree. If you actually think the braves and giants were close, there's not much I can do to fix that.

<LOL Braves, Giants? These teams were better than the Cubs (record-wise). Yet, for some "reason", you've decided to leave the Cubs off. Believe they have a chance? Ha yeah... no bias there at all, right?

The White Sox, the Rangers, the Rays... do these teams have a chance? Yes, just as much as the Braves or Giants or possibly even less.

The White Sox were 7.5 Gms out.
The Rays were 19 Gms out.
The Rangers were 10 Gms out.

Now, something doesn't add up. Why are these teams not on your list and yet the Giants and Braves, two Wild-card contenders, are?

Please watch the sport and then give your opinion, which I won't care to read BTW. You've just proven that you know as much about baseball as Joe Buck. And if I'm right... thats none.

Cheers.

Why do idiots on the internet always write "looser" instead of "loser?" Not only does it sound completely different, but you're also adding an extra letter to a word, i.e. making more work for yourself. I will never understand how this happens..

I blame CPS and his mom, who should've home-schooled him.