Thursday, July 31, 2003

With all the deals that went down today, it just reminds me why I agree that no sport should ever have a salary cap. Part of the fun of being a fan is getting mad or happy when your team does nothing or makes a move at the deadline. Fewer and fewer deals happen in other sports such as basketball and football...which have salary caps. Yet in baseball and hockey players move around like ping pong balls at the deadline. In basketball a team can't trade a decent player with a big contract for two "prospects" because the salaries have to match. That's why a bad franchise has such a hard time turning around. In baseball, teams like Montreal can continue to be semi competitive without a lot of money because every time they develop a stud player whose salary is getting too high, they trade himi away for two or three players who help them down the road. Continually re-stocking their farm system .