The question concerning a salary cap for Major League Baseball came to the surface yet again after the New York Yankees controversial signing of A.J. Burnett, C.C. Sabathia, and Mark Teixeira in the sports off-season. Mark Attanasio who owns the Milwaukee Brewers franchise seems to be one of the biggest winers of them all. Attanasio was quoted as saying in an article on MLB.com, "At the rate the Yankees are going, I'm not sure anyone can compete with them. Frankly, the sport might need a salary cap." The Brewers CEO also went on to say, "This is very reminiscent of what they have tried before. It didn't work then, and I'm not sure it's going to work now."

Hold on a minute...are you getting this? This moron just contradicted himself. One minute he is saying that the Yankees will be untouchable and the next minute he claims the Yankees have tried to buy a team before and it didn't work then and it probably won't work now either.

Personally, I think the idea of a salary cap or a ban on how much a team can spend on players is ridiculous! Attanasio is exactly right in his second statement, the New York Yankees cannot buy a team or a World Series Championship. If they could have, they would have purchased every World Series since 1973 when George Steinbrenner (Forbes 400 list of richest people in America) bought the franchise from CBS. But that is not the case; in fact they haven't won a World Series Championship since 2000!

What this all comes down to is class envy. Mark Attanasio is a socialist pig who can't stand the fact that Steinbrenner can spend $420 million on three players when all he can afford to dish out is $220 million for his entire roster. It is not the role of the government or anyone else to tell any business owner how much he can or can't spend on his employees. A salary cap is an anti-capitalist idea that should sicken you. It doesn't matter if you are a Yankees fan or not, salary caps are un-American, they have a certain Marxist ring to them. If Steinbrenner wants to waste $1.3 billion on a failing team, then let him. As all of us learn in life money isn't everything, if the Yankees make poor judgment calls and their ownership makes bad decisions, $1.3 billion is not going to make a difference. Let's not forget that in order for a team to spent than kind of money they first must earn it.

As of right now a salary cap is nothing more than small talk and it doesn't appear to be a serious threat to the sport. However, the MLB currently has a "luxury tax", which is a tax or penalty paid to the league for any team that spends more than X amount of money on their team. Since this tax was implemented six years ago, the New York Yankees have paid $148.3 million in taxes. This also is a socialist idea. It is the same thing as a progressive, income, or labor tax read about it in the 10 planks section of the Communist Manifesto. Regardless of if you love or hate the Yankees, if you love baseball and or capitalism, fight to prevent a salary cap before "Americas Past Time" becomes, the "Marx Past Time".
-Griffin
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