Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.
This first season of Major League Baseball in the new millennium could be the last. MLB's current labor agreement is set to expire Oct. 31, and it is expected that baseball's owners will suspend operations as early as the next day in an effort to resolve the league's economic issues. However, an agreement between league owners and the players' union to curb baseball's reckless spending with a salary cap that would bridge the competitive gap between large and small market teams seems as sure a bet as Pete Rose's imminent induction to The Baseball Hall of Fame. The ideal scenario would be to follow the model of the National Football League, which is as close to sports Utopia as we will probably ever see with equitable revenue sharing, a hard salary cap, league parity, non-guaranteed contracts and relatively harmonious relations between its union and owners. Frank Thomas Thomas grumbled his way into spring training after a career season during which he produced 43 homeruns and 143 runs batted in for the American League Central Division champion Chicago White Sox.