there is no salary cap in baseball because fans complain their teams cannot keep their best players. what about the poor teams that cant afford to keep their best players and continue to suck every year? why cant there be upsets in the mlb and stories to be remembered like the nfl?

I 100% agree. I get sick of the same teams winning in the mlb year after year it's just a matter of money. Why can't the glory be shared? That is what makes the nfl good i like to see different teams win each year but the mlb sometimes teams dominate for decades.

There are no "poor" baseball teams. The teams that don't get decent players don't want to win, it's more profitable for the owner to field a cheap team and keep all the money he earns. If they had a winning team it would earn more money but also more would be spent on the team so actually less profitalbe for the owner.
In eurpoean soccer the best two teams in the B-league get to move up to the A-league and the 2 worst two go down a notch. They then have to come in first or second in the b-league or they'll never move back up. This is what baseball should do, it would keep owners from always fielding losing teams and it would give a chance for smaller citys to get into the big leagues...

The whole MLB needs a salary cap thing may very well be a myth. Do stats support the idea that MLB does not have competitive balance? Not necessarily. Compare MLB Playoffs to NFL (which does have cap).

In the last 6 years, a total of 5 AL teams and 6 NL teams have not made the playoffs at least once (11 total teams of 30)

In the last 7 years, 7 different champions.

There are huge upsets in MLB - Florida, Angels, White Sox, Tigers - all teams that came out of no where to win while Yankees, Dodgers, Giants, Mets, and Braves have won zero in the last 6 years. The Tigers made the series last year out of no where (just like the Saints in the NFL).

By the same account, the NFL has had 5 teams out of 32 not make the playoffs at least once over the same stretch. However, the NFL has 12 playoff spots per year vs. MLB 8 spots per year. Over the same time, the NFL has had 5 teams that didn't make the playoffs with 72 playoff spots and MLB has had 11 teams that didn't make the playoffs against 48 possible spots.

While it seems like teams have a greater chance to make the playoffs in NFL due to cap, it is more likely that it is due to more playoff spots. And with good teams that seem to be near the top every year (Patriots, Colts, Broncos, Ravens, Seahawks, Bears, Eagles, Panthers), last year's Saints run was the only recent time where a team came completely out of no where to almost make it.

Nobody has clean hands on this one.

The owners throw money around (especially this year) like drunken sailors on leave.

The Players Association puts a lot of pressure on players to keep pushing salaries higher - so a player who takes a "hometown discount" to stay in a small market becomes a virtual pariah.

MLB has had different World Series champions each year this millenia - a good sign, and has teams rise and fall. Yes, there have been some cellar dwellers, but that's true in all sports, and speaks more of the organization - they don't draft well, they don't develop their players as well, etc.

The reason there is no salary cap in baseball is that the PLAYERS don't want it, and NOTHING changes in the game without their sign-off. Donald Fehr has said that he's also opposed to a payroll floor (each team must spend a minimum amount), because that might open the door to a salary cap.

And among the owners, there are quite a few teams willing to spend $100M or more - so don't look for them to rally and unite - which is what it would take to stare down the Players Assoc.

Finally, there is a new Basic Agreement between the owners and players that runs through 2011 if I'm not mistaken. So there's not going to be ANY change of this sort even brought up until then.