A Last word

The topic that I chose for my persuasive paper and speech was salary caps in professional sports. I thought that this was a very interesting topic to choose, one because most of us in this class are athletes, and two because I hadn't known much about all the different sports caps, yet had a strong opinion supporting salary caps. I learned a lot from the research I did and to me it became obvious that there are three main reasons why salary caps should exist in all sports. First, salary caps create competition between all teams amongst the league. Second, it creates equality amongst big city and small market teams, making it an over all exciting league. Finally it puts more money in the hands of the owners who improve each teams franchise, which overall improves the quality of the league. To refute any of these facts would be just ludicrous.
When I say that all professional sports need a salary cap, I am more referring to the fact that major league baseball needs a salary cap because they are the only professional sports team that doesn't have one. One significant fact that I think everyone opposing salary caps should know is the Yankees have won 27 out of the last 106 World Series. (Clayton, 2007) That is over 25%! In professional sports none the less, it is a monopoly. Another supporting fact is the Yankees have spent over 70 million dollars more than any other team in the MLB. (Clayton, 2007) Statistics don't lie. With nine All-stars in a line up of nine players of course you are going to win more games than any other team in the league.
So you sit here and read these ridiculous facts that I present you and you ask yourself well I mean come on it's the MLB what can we honestly do to have any impact or difference. That is where I say to you there are several things that we can do to have an impact on the MLB. First off we can create blogs such as the one we are on right now. Don't make it a personal blog whatsoever because it is going to be shared with thousands and thousands of people. Represent yourself with some very good facts supporting your opinions and more and more people will begin looking at the situation the same way we are. The second and final thing that you can do is go onto the MLB website and get a hold of the people in charge of the league, either by starting a community chat on the website or trying to talk to them personally. In my opinion a community chat would be easier. There are things we can do. There needs to be a salary cap in professional baseball. Small market teams like Milwaukee don't have anywhere near the resources to compete year in and year out with teams such as the Yankees, Angels, Dodgers, Phillies, or Red Sox. There needs to be a change. Below is a good starting point for either of the options that I stated above.

http://www.mlb.com/blogs/

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=betweenthenumbers/salarycap/060405