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Originally Posted by Le Grande Orange
Welcome to the territorial monopoly league model used in North American sports.
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Which, in my opinion, is the root of the problem. Baseball would be much, much better off from a fan's perspective if the NL and AL were still competitors. Or if teams could move at will, and MLB expanded much more readily. Or an open league system. Anything to break up the monopoly.
It all comes back to locking in a system with absolutely massive revenue inequities.
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One may well ask why the Mets, with access to the same market area, isn't in the post-season every year.
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They're run like crap. And even at that they're over .500 with three playoff appearances and seven 88+ win seasons since the last work stoppage. A garden-variety crap team from a smaller market like Pittsburgh or Baltimore is 10-15 games worse per year.