In my opinion, all professional sports teams should have mandatory salary cap. Let's say $100 million per year for all pro baseball teams. THAT would make a level playing field. Any owner could choose to spend less, but if he did, the fans would pillory him or her until they chose to stop being such a damn cheapskate. If such a mandatory salary cap existed, I would have no problem with NY winning so many championships if McLane chose to spend only $60 million on his team, and I would build up a movement to convince McLane to spend more. But as it is, teams are funded on the whims of their owners, making the sport less competitive, more boring, and of less interest to people in towns with teams that cannot compete due to lack of funding so they can't buy all the free agents they want.

That's my opinion, and I'm sticking to it. Baseball has become less interesting and more boring as a result of many things, which is why it is now much less popular than it sued to be.