1. Thursday, May 30, 13
Salary cap is hot button issue
Football and basketball have caps
Successful
MLB wants to try, too

2. Thursday, May 30, 13
Athletes have high salaries
Especially baseball players
Sportingnews.com - baseball makes twice football salary
Why would anybody care about a salary cap in baseball?

3. Thursday, May 30, 13
Baseball fan for over 25 years
Keep best players in sport, need to negotiate salary
Fair, ethical treatment of employees

4. Thursday, May 30, 13
Salary cap would tamper with traditions
Take power of salary negotiation and give to league
Leaves players without options

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Thursday, May 30, 13
No salary cap in baseball
Feel it will create sense of equity
Teams, players, fans must keep MLB from creating salary cap
Wouldn’t benefit smaller market teams

6. Thursday, May 30, 13
America’s sport - comes with sense of tradition
American dream
Right to American dream

7. Thursday, May 30, 13
Salary cap takes player’s ability to negotiate
Pushes older player out of sport
Wouldn’t help small market teams

8. Thursday, May 30, 13
No incentives
Makes baseball unenjoyable
American tradition - preserve this tradition

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Thursday, May 30, 13
MLB feels salary cap would create equity
Example from BleacherReport.com

10. Thursday, May 30, 13
Several teams have $5 million
Player asking for $10 million
Can’t pay player
Player must accept 50% decrease

11. Thursday, May 30, 13
Argument that players earn too much
Sports teams are businesses

12. Thursday, May 30, 13
Ben Sharp, contributor for WRFT blog
Sports are businesses as well as entertainment
Supply and demand
Team owners: win and money - must keep players happy to get both

13. Thursday, May 30, 13
Salary cap takes power from players and gives to league
Owners have ability to squeeze and trap players
How?

14. Thursday, May 30, 13
Team A - $5 billion
Team B - $12 billion
Team B - more to spend on players, wiggle room to negotiate

15. Thursday, May 30, 13
$9 billion dollar cap
Team A - still only $5 billion
Team B - now only $9 billion
$4 billion gap

16. Thursday, May 30, 13
Doesn’t help players or team A
Team A still has only $5 billion
Team B has almost twice that

17. Thursday, May 30, 13
Larger teams will always have more to spend
What can you do to oppose?

18. Thursday, May 30, 13
Actively oppose salary cap
Write favorite team, MLB
Encourage friends
Be vocal

19. Thursday, May 30, 13
Support smaller market teams through merch and tickets
See your team play on the road

20. Thursday, May 30, 13
Let MLB know
Give smaller market teams support
All players will have same ability to negotiate
Concept as American as apple pie and baseball itself