All the other major sports have a salary cap and have parody (for the most part). But MLB has the same handfull of teams nearly every year.

The answer is "when h*ll freezes over".

In seriousness, baseball will get a salary cap when they have full revenue sharing like the other major pro sports have. The reason for the imbalance in baseball is that we have teams with 10x (or more) the revenue of others and, as we all know, these teams buy up the best available talent, yet still make large profits.

In the NFL, TV revenue is equally divided between all the teams, and this gives all the clubs a comparable base to pay players from. This is why the Giants, Jets, and Bears aren't at the top every year. Sure, the Patriots are, but that is more a result of being well-run rather than having an unfair revenue advantage.

In a perfect world, the TV revenue from baseball teams would be distributed similarly. This isn't the way things have been done, though, in baseball--as the TV revenue is generated locally rather than nationally. If this was done, it would be much easier to negotiate a labor agreement that included a salary cap, as the amount of money available for salaries would be comparable to what it is now--except it would be distrubted over all the teams instead of only a small handful.

But if there is no revenue sharing, there will never be a salary cap, as the players would never (and understandably so) agree to a limit on salaries that would be set in such a fashion that would neither make small-market teams competitive in the labor market nor allow the rich teams to pay unlimited amounts of money out for talent.

When Bud Selig steps down.

never

Baseball HAS a salary cap. You can just go over it as much as you want as long as you can pay the "luxury tax" involved.

So say the cap is 100 mil (pretty close to what it is) and the Red Sox spend 140 million. They then owe the league another 40 million on top of that ( or whatever the amount over the cap they are). The league then takes the overages and distributes them among all the teams that were under, and that folks is the only reason there's baseball in Florida. But that's another question for another day.

As long as you can afford to go over the cap, then you do. Simple as that.

There is no actual salary cap, but if you go over a certain payroll you have to pay a luxury tax which is the case with the Yankees and I believe the Red Sox almost every season. Anyways, it's very doubtful that a salary cap will ever be put in place in MLB. I'd say their doing OK without it, and just imagine the angry fans if there was a year without baseball, or even two years.

Does it need one? Rockies, D'backs and Indians all doing pretty well without it (Yankees, Mets, and all other high spenders except for Red Sox are out of it).

A's are usually great competitors. Brewers very competitive this year and Tigers last year. 7 Different champions in the last 7 years. So why is a cap needed? Lack of cap is just an excuse for teams that can't find a way to win.

Why would you want to punish owners for wanting to put the best product on the field for their fans and their selves. I am a Yankee fan and I appreciate George for spending how ever much he wants. The problem I have is the teams getting the money from the few teams who over spend these team owners just pocket this money and do nothing to better their team which is what that money is suppose to be for anyways to make them more competitive with your big spending teams. So that being said spend all you can while you can to please your fans who will be grateful for you doing so.

The problem with salary caps in sports is similar to salary caps in congress. On paper the athlete or politician may only be getting so much money -- but the reality is that they can still be rewarder financially (and other ways) in technically legal ways or very discrete illegal ways. Since people like to believe in their sports heroes (if they can't always in their politicians), I'll point out a couple of the more legal ways a team may give bonuses to star players....

First of all, some teams have more brand recognition. So even if the Yankees were subjected to a salary cap a player might get a better contract from a company that sells jersey's or shoes.

Secondly... a player may get rewarded with better business deals of all kinds several years down the road. This could be anything from off-the-record illegal stuff like I mentioned to sportscasting shots and book deals and managerial positions.

In short, making valuable business connections and under-the-table deals can seriously limit the value of salary caps in any profession. So a strict profit-sharing and punishment system must be enforced if, and when, a salary cap system ever gets put in place in MLB.

When Selig is dead.

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