[dalmations202]

Salary cap in BBall won't work because the TV dollars aren't the leagues. Each team gets their TV money, and only the "baseball" revenue is shared. Hence the Brewers who have a $6M a year TV deal can't compete with the Yankees who have a $200M a year TV deal. Lets face it TV pays for viewership, and unless this becomes league dollars -- you will never have equality.

Players do not want the Yankees and Boston to stop spending. They get more money. Owners do not want to give up their cash cow, and there is no way to make them.

If you do what they are doing now, they are doing some revenue sharing when the money reaches a certain amount. This gets them closer, but is no where near equality between teams.

I love baseball, but the changes you would make seem like a good idea to me.

Personally I think the gates, parking, concessions, and TV should be shared equally within the league, and the merchandise should be all the owners. IE the owner who puts together the better team, and the better marketing makes more money, but getting fans to buy more merchandise. Of course it would kill the Yankees ownership, etc., but not horribly since they lead sales of merchandise as well.

Follow the money, and you can find answers for most things.

With that said, a 150 games season is cool. Not sure your numbers will add up though when some division teams have 4 some 5 and some 6 in the division. So you would have to restructure. 3 games against the other league -- who gets home field? etc.