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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: TimF who wrote (322943)1/25/2007 9:18:48 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (2) of 1574757
 
If you look at the NFL, or MLB as one entity, then limiting its franchises really isn't anti-competitive behavior, and more than when McDonald's, or Home Depot decides not to build stores too close together so they won't cannibalize each other sales.

What company in the US controls an entire industry? That's the kind of control the MLB has over baseball and the NFL over football.

As for soccer in England, there are a limited number of top teams.

premierleague.com

Apparently the premier league only has 20 teams.


Yes, and England has less than 1/5 the population of the US. If we maintained England's ratio of teams to population, the US could support 120 teams. I think that makes my point very emphatically.
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