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Originally Posted by CBL-Commish
That would be my solution. What business does anyone have telling Steven Strasburg that the only team he can negotiate with is the Washington Nationals?
I'd love for there to be a journalism draft, or a engineering draft. Instead of getting a PhD from MIT and going to the highest bidder, you get drafted and go to a startup engineering firm in Fairbanks because they need to even up the competition with IBM and Raytheon and Boeing.
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I don't have a problem with the draft itself. It definitely serves a purpose, and as much of a free market proponent I am in real life, I think it might bot be the best way to go in pro sports. That said, if you are going to have a draft, it makes no sense for teams not to pick the best player available. The NHL draft is, in my opinion, a great system (well, the seeding system sucks, but that's another problem).