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Screw a salary cap. What the MLB needs is a draft bonus/rookie salary structure that lets smaller markets develop young talent. That's the area where the rich teams are really getting the edge... If I were a Pirates fan, instead of lamenting the loss of overpriced players to free agency I'd be a lot more depressed by their inability to get anyone worthwhile with their constant high draft picks because they can't and/or don't want to spend the money it would take to sign them.
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"I pretty much popped everything cold turkey. We were doing steroids they wouldn't give to horses."
-- Tom House
"In 1973, the year I first ran for Congress, the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce concluded a year-long investigation that found--and I quote--'drug use exists...in all sports and levels of competition...In some instances, the danger of improper drug use--primarily amphetamines and anabolic steroids--can only be described as alarming'"
-- Henry Waxman
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