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To: JDN who wrote (260721)	6/3/2002 4:48:20 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 769667

That describes pro-baseball - a hand full of contenders and a swarm of crappy teams. Many of the crappy teams by the way play in shiny new taxpayer subsidized stadiums. You say the players are overpaid. The problem (if it's a problem) is that the owners of the big market teams keep bidding against each other higher and higher. If as a result of their freely made business decisions they can't make a profit, too damn bad. The problem is the owners act as if they don't understand their own business model. It isn't 25? 50? Individual business competing against each other. You've got one big business - Pro Baseball that attracts viewers and $s by staging games. The Yankees and the Twins are partners in this enterprise, not competitors. The competition is all the other distraction people can spend their bucks on. People will spend their disposable buck on baseball only if the games are perceived as fair. What you have when a team plays another team with a payroll 5 times more is a farce. And there is a market in farce. People do pay money to see roller derby and wrestling.