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National Review: Baseball Is The Conservative Sport
Written by wrigleyville   
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Fred Schwarz of the National Review says baseball is a fundamentally conservative (politically) game, because it is "a testimony to the success of free markets and limited government." Among the reasons: Baseball is meritocratic. Only about 25 percent of the teams qualify for the playoffs, as opposed to more than 50 percent in most major-league sports. If you can consistently make the playoffs by finishing at .500, as is true in the NBA and NHL, there’s no real incentive to improve. But in baseball, if you want to play in the postseason, you have to find a way to make your team better. Baseball handles immigration the right way, with foreigners recruited for specific skills and all legal requirements taken care of. The next time you hear that a player’s arrival at spring training has been delayed by visa trouble, think how much better America would be if every industry were so scrupulous with its workers. Baseball is the closest thing in professional sports to a free market. Most sports are socialistic, with a salary cap that prevents competition based on spending. Like the tax code, these caps are fiendishly complicated and riddled with exceptions that create market-distorting behavior. In baseball there’s no salary cap. (True, there’s a “luxury tax” on payrolls that exceeds a certain amount, but at least it’s a flat tax.) To be sure, along with this simplicity and freedom to innovate go huge imbalances in payrolls between teams, yet baseball still manages to have at least as much parity as other sports. There are others for your reading pleasure, but Bud Selig and MLB don't seem to have gotten the message.

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