Salary Cap Questions

                All of the major sports in the United States have a salary cap.  A salary cap is the limit that a team can spend on their roster for the given sport.  Some major sports that have a salary cap are the National football League, National Basketball association, and the National Hockey League.  The biggest sport in the U.S to go in the opposite direction and refrain from having a salary cap is Major League Baseball.  While this remains one of the largest revenues in today’s economy, does it have integrity?  Sports are supposed to be the cohesive bond formed by a team that has a common goal in winning a championship.  A fine line is drawn between this, and the current situation in professional baseball.  Teams are able to spend as much money desired in order to win.  Where is the satisfaction in that? Because of this, “athletes” take the most money offered to them and throws every genuine athlete’s dream out the window.

                From a personal standpoint, growing up as a kid there was only one thing on my mind.  That one thing was winning sports games.  To this day there is no desire in any fiber of my being to play the beautiful games such as football basketball or lacrosse for money.  The demeanor and actions of today’s professional athletes are ridiculous and utterly unacceptable.  Their actions pollute the minds of aspiring children looking to make their career out of their God given talents in which they were blessed with. 

Money is an obvious incentive in landing spots for athletes in today’s day and age.  However, the integrity of the game and their motives remain a glaring issue.  A successful team should not be labeled by their respective owner’s checkbook.  It should be labeled and exemplified by executives and players that share a common goal to win games and compete for not only one championship, but multiple ones.  The MLB should enforce a strict salary cap in order to balance the athletes on various different teams in order to make the league more competitive and help to avoid the same teams from winning the championship year in and year out.  They should adopt the strategic salary cap issues from the NFL and NBA in order to make baseball more competitive and ultimately more fun to watch.