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Originally Posted by Fallschirmjager
I don't like the salary cap because it does not reward fans for being loyal to a team and spending their money on that team.
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I disagree 100% because fan loyalty has absolutely nothing to do with the inequity of the Big Market / Small Market franchises.
The Yankees (and to a lesser extent the Mets) have the advantage of playing in the largest market in the world. The Yankees get almost $100 Million a year in TV rights fees alone. How in the world can the Kansas City's, Oakland's, or Pittsburghs of the world compete with that? Those fans are as loyal as Yankee fans - more so I'd say since they still support teams that don't win as often. Even if Pittsburgh doubled their ticket prices, tripled their merchandising revenue, and sold out every single game, they still wouldn't have enough revenue to support a payroll even half of what the Yankees spend. All this clearly has nothing to fan loyalty.