Will a Salary Cap Fix Baseball?

With the influx of high dollar signings by the Yankees, and the astronomical sum that Manny is asking, a re-hashing of the salary cap argument has come back to rear it's ugly head.  It's not really surprising though, it happens almost every season.

Last year it was the Santana ordeal along with the Rodriguez re-signing. This year, the fuel to the fire was the $400 million the Yankees threw at three players. 

I can see the argument from both sides. On one side (mostly New York, Boston, and Chicago fans, but there are others out there) people argue that teams who "do the right thing" and put the money back into the team, shouldn't be punished, they should be applauded for their effort.

The other side of the fence tend to be fans of smaller market teams, and the most frequent argument from them is that their teams can't generate the revenue to be able to put a competitive team on the field due to having a smaller fan base, the local economy isn't as strong, etc.

While I can see both sides of the argument, I tend to lean towards being pro salary cap. I think it's better for baseball as a whole. I'm a fan of baseball. I have my favorite team, but I'm a follower of the sport as a whole entity. The league doesn't benefit by having teams like KC, Baltimore, Florida, Pittsburgh, etc.

No one wants to see a decades of bottom feeding. I'm not even a fan of one of those teams, and I don't want to see them consistently be terrible. 

Now, I know that the league is cyclical. The Yankees were awful a decade or two ago.  The Red Sox weren't always No. 2 in the East. The Mets were terrible for years. Things change just as much as they stay the same, but when I watch the NFL, teams literally go from worst to first almost every year. 

Look at the Super Bowl...How often do teams make it to back to back Super Bowls? 

Not very often, and when they do, it's short lived. The NBA has a salary cap and again, teams can go from near worst to first in just one season (see the Boston Celtics, 2008). Parity is exciting. It's fun. It keeps all fans interested from year to year.

Yes, it's not as fun for the large markets, but I don't think they'll completely stop watching baseball if there are limits set, and more than likely it'll make the smaller market teams who can't afford to give out $160 million to a single pitcher.

I'm a little old school; it's hard for me to imagine a fourth starter for a team to make $10 million a year. 

Regardless, the only way I see things changing is if the economy keeps dragging and it comes to multiple teams having to be sold/go bankrupt for that kind of drastic change to come about, but I think that's unlikely (for the sake of everyone else's jobs sake I hope it doesn't).