The Decline of Competitive Balance in Professional Sports Today
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00:03 - Go ahead, Mike, your thoughts.
00:04 What do you think about a deal like that
00:06 in professional sports today?
00:08 - Well, first of all, it's not about the money.
00:11 For me, it's about competitive balance
00:14 and baseball has just completely surrendered that.
00:18 There are a lot of people who will point
00:20 to the number of different champions.
00:22 And I say, that's just like a different group
00:24 of rich people winning the country club golf championship.
00:29 The sport of baseball is no longer
00:33 for every major league team.
00:34 There are tiers.
00:36 You can get a Kansas City miracle once every 20 years,
00:40 but it's gonna take a miracle.
00:42 Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Kansas City, others,
00:45 they need not apply.
00:48 This is how bad baseball's competitive balance is.
00:51 They point to Houston and say, that's a small market team.
00:55 Yeah, Houston's the fifth largest city in America.
00:58 So, it's fair.
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