Word: caps
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...love of humanity, Major League Baseball, please get a salary cap...
...baseball took a page from the NFL's playbook, fan appeal would double. No longer would New York be the only game in town. Since the NFL adopted a salary cap, players' salaries can only be so high (bottom line: A Rod and Manny lose, society gains). Ticket prices do not need to be jacked up every year (see: John Harrington) to support the astronomical salaries...
...First of all, it might be the worst position in politics. From nuclear secrets to oil prices, it's a rattlesnake-herding job in which people only notice you when you screw up. And, like a lot of Cabinet positions, it tends to put a cap on your political career (unless you're defense secretary during the Gulf War or something). If Breaux, who has emerged of late as the media's go-to guy on Senate centrism, is tempted to answer the President-elect's call, he need only look at one person: Bill Richardson...
...Though Rodriguez' contract certainly makes Donald Fehr and Gene Orza, the heads of the players union, giddy, they cannot in good conscience say that there is not a problem--presuming, of course, Fehr and Orza have a conscience. Watch when October hits for owners to put together a salary cap or a serious luxury tax proposal to do something to limit salaries--or force a team to accept tradeoffs if they overspend on a free agent...
Warning to all who drive gas guzzlers while fretting about the melting ice cap and the diminished rain forest: Your bluff is called. Finally. Just as the U.S. is grappling with the problem of how to meet its international promise to reduce global warming, the first hybrid gasoline-electric cars are hitting the U.S. market. Though these green machines, a major advance in automobile engineering, are getting off to a slow start, down the road they may yet compete bumper to bumper with gas-only cars...