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Originally Posted by Déjà Bru

I am coming to realize, I believe, that I have no valid reason to support a salary cap in MLB. At first, I thought it would help to put a brake on the hyper-inflation of sports rooting, attending, and viewing costs, but then it occurred to me: The whole deal is classic economics; team owners and their media and merchandise partners are merely charging what the market will bear. The old supply and demand thing, you know.

So, if there were to be a salary cap in MLB, the whole money-making engine would continue anyway, along with spiraling costs. Team, media, and merchandise owners will just get richer. The rest of us, poorer.

In that case, then, I echo what Harper said to Manfred: "get the f--- out of [the] clubhouse".

DeRosa is backpedaling big time. He wasn't joking and he was also dead on. I don't understand why Manfred is often considered some bumbling idiot. He is a cunning and ruthless person. If anyone has ever read Baseball Cop by Eddie Dominguez they would maybe have a different perspective of the man who was groomed by Bud Selig (another real piece of work). Of course, if you do read the book you open yourself up to a really dark side of baseball and what humans are willing to do to each other for profit.