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.
You seem to have a contradiction in paragraph 1. You mention that "all" sports in the U.S. have salary caps, then you contradict that by saying that U.S. Baseball doesn't. So how about "most" have?
ReplyDeleteAlso, how does not having a salary cap in baseball ruin it? You mention that that makes players just jump to the highest-paying team. But I wonder--are you saying that it's a lack of loyalty? Can you provide examples to support that point?
In paragraph 2--examples would help show that the demeanor of current players is unacceptable.
You have a great argument here in this post; support it with specific examples of actual players and how players in some sports hop around for the money. Data and details are what convince readers in the end.
I can relate to you. I think athletes are overpaid and spoiled. Just because they have great athletic ability, how does that differ from someone who is great in another fashion such as teachers who are highly under paid in my opinion. Most athletes do not even finish college. They are so money hungry they jump into professionals prematurely and leave their education behind. Though sports is a dangerous career and athletes do put themselves in harmful situations, they don't even work year round most of the time, they are half-year workers. I believe that professionals should have a salary limit. Not only do athletes get paid an outrageous salary, they also have multi-million dollar endorsements. Many athletes do not even know how to manage their money and consequently manage to go broke such as Allen Iverson.
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