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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4768659, member: 405"] Kansas City and so many other teams fail to invest year after year. And yet, the AVERAGE value of a Major League Baseball franchise has increased from $238M twenty years ago, to over $2.3 billion today. The top 10 teams in terms of payroll pay roughly twice as much as the bottom 10 teams. And consider that they bottom 10 teams share equally in national TV revenue (unlike college sports, or many soccer leagues in Europe), and their investment is now worth 10 times as much as it used to be 20 years ago, whether they try to win, or not. They have money. Sure, local TV contracts don't pay as much in smaller markets. There is the local market income, which can be very substantial, just like in college sports. But at least in college sports, the "Haves" are trying to ditch the "Dead Wood" teams who never really try to compete; the ones who are just happy to collect a big paycheck. [/QUOTE]