Maybe he meant when DT was elected president for the 3rd time?
Manfred just made 30 copies of this article to hand out at the next collective bargaining session
Ignoramus here — I get the sense everyone on here thinks a salary cap would be bad for baseball, but at the same time we always gripe about the inequality in payroll. Wouldn’t a salary cap help with that?
I get that there should also be a floor and maybe more aggressive revenue sharing so it’s not just a giveaway to big-market owners. But wouldn’t a cap be part of a better league design?
Just trying to understand what I missed.
Fuck
What’s crazy is that even then the guy was being associated with the position albeit in an outlandish way. Makes you wonder
Release the salary cap accounting files
Oof
Thought he meant the guy from Yes and was a little confused haha. Totally forgot about the pitcher; poor guy.
There’s a pretty good argument that a Cap/Floor might actually raise payrolls overall. Teams like the Dodgers are outliers.
The owners will never agree to floor with no cap. The players would never agree to a Cap without a Floor.
Because of this, the cheaper owners are going to fight tooth and nail against a Cap, with support from the Dodgers, Yankees, and Mets.
Meanwhile, every other owner in baseball will agree that the sensible thing to do is work with the players on a Cap/Floor.
“This union will agree to a truce about the same time there’s a japanese babe ruth” – Abraham Lincoln
SIOUX FALLS CANARIES LEGEND STEVE HOWE MENTIONED 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Good call Jayson
Does this mean that by now there should have been two salary caps?
Oh there’ll be a floor alright. It will be about $1M more than the Marlins current payroll, yet the cheap Marlins/Pirates/Royals owners will act like they’ve made a Christ on the cross level sacrifice for their fanbases, while they go on putting uncompetitive teams on the field and cheating their fans
Even back in 2000, the idea of Donald Trump getting elected was the high (low?) bar for stupidity.
Jayson Quasimodo Stark
*”Are we so out of touch with salary caps and floors?…..*
*….No, it is the other leagues who are wrong”*
So the worst timeline has Trump as president AND a salary cap in baseball?
This was right in the middle of his run as the Reform Party (Jesse Ventura’s party at the time) candidate.
“If I feel I could win—win—then I’d run. I think I have a good chance. Hey, I’ve got my name on half the major buildings in New York. I went to the Wharton School of Finance, which is the No. 1 school. I’m intelligent. Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent. It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”
He was a laughingstock to most people back then. I blame the Apprentice for making him mainstream again.
Yikes
Fun fact: Trump ran for president in the year 2000 under a third party
Worst timeline confirmed.
Donald Trump had been trying to become president since the 2000s?????
*Big* mistake.
What is this, an episode of the Simpsons?!
So the cap is 9 years overdue.
Concerning.
Predictive programming.
I think another factor is if there’s a cap and floor whats to keep an owner blowing his wad on one player to get to the salary floor then pay the rest of their players at a low payroll. Now the owners excuse is i couldn’t let x player get away so I paid him I meet the salary floor requirements and its not my fault this team isn’t a contender. All the while the owners just go around collecting a check.
Then what happens if the dodgers mets and Yankees get guys that now how to work the cap and still get to the top or keep repeating/succeeding.Are we going to say teams can only have 2 star players from now on then to make it fair? At some point the owners need to be pressured to start putting a real competing product on the field or have the cheap owners just sell the team.
![[RJAnderson] Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:](https://www.rawchili.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/mfjktuhfr11g1.jpeg)
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As it was written…
Maybe he meant when DT was elected president for the 3rd time?
Manfred just made 30 copies of this article to hand out at the next collective bargaining session
Ignoramus here — I get the sense everyone on here thinks a salary cap would be bad for baseball, but at the same time we always gripe about the inequality in payroll. Wouldn’t a salary cap help with that?
I get that there should also be a floor and maybe more aggressive revenue sharing so it’s not just a giveaway to big-market owners. But wouldn’t a cap be part of a better league design?
Just trying to understand what I missed.
Fuck
What’s crazy is that even then the guy was being associated with the position albeit in an outlandish way. Makes you wonder
Release the salary cap accounting files
Oof
Thought he meant the guy from Yes and was a little confused haha. Totally forgot about the pitcher; poor guy.
There’s a pretty good argument that a Cap/Floor might actually raise payrolls overall. Teams like the Dodgers are outliers.
The owners will never agree to floor with no cap. The players would never agree to a Cap without a Floor.
Because of this, the cheaper owners are going to fight tooth and nail against a Cap, with support from the Dodgers, Yankees, and Mets.
Meanwhile, every other owner in baseball will agree that the sensible thing to do is work with the players on a Cap/Floor.
“This union will agree to a truce about the same time there’s a japanese babe ruth” – Abraham Lincoln
SIOUX FALLS CANARIES LEGEND STEVE HOWE MENTIONED 🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅
Good call Jayson
Does this mean that by now there should have been two salary caps?
Oh there’ll be a floor alright. It will be about $1M more than the Marlins current payroll, yet the cheap Marlins/Pirates/Royals owners will act like they’ve made a Christ on the cross level sacrifice for their fanbases, while they go on putting uncompetitive teams on the field and cheating their fans
Even back in 2000, the idea of Donald Trump getting elected was the high (low?) bar for stupidity.
Jayson Quasimodo Stark
*”Are we so out of touch with salary caps and floors?…..*
*….No, it is the other leagues who are wrong”*
So the worst timeline has Trump as president AND a salary cap in baseball?
This was right in the middle of his run as the Reform Party (Jesse Ventura’s party at the time) candidate.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_2000_presidential_campaign)
“If I feel I could win—win—then I’d run. I think I have a good chance. Hey, I’ve got my name on half the major buildings in New York. I went to the Wharton School of Finance, which is the No. 1 school. I’m intelligent. Some people would say I’m very, very, very intelligent. It’s very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”
He was a laughingstock to most people back then. I blame the Apprentice for making him mainstream again.
Yikes
Fun fact: Trump ran for president in the year 2000 under a third party
Worst timeline confirmed.
Donald Trump had been trying to become president since the 2000s?????
*Big* mistake.
What is this, an episode of the Simpsons?!
So the cap is 9 years overdue.
Concerning.
Predictive programming.
I think another factor is if there’s a cap and floor whats to keep an owner blowing his wad on one player to get to the salary floor then pay the rest of their players at a low payroll. Now the owners excuse is i couldn’t let x player get away so I paid him I meet the salary floor requirements and its not my fault this team isn’t a contender. All the while the owners just go around collecting a check.
Then what happens if the dodgers mets and Yankees get guys that now how to work the cap and still get to the top or keep repeating/succeeding.Are we going to say teams can only have 2 star players from now on then to make it fair? At some point the owners need to be pressured to start putting a real competing product on the field or have the cheap owners just sell the team.
So, salary cap coming soon?