I say f^(k baseball! You have a bunch of guys who for the most past got a free ride through college or immigrated from some dirt poor country. Either way, they get page a substantial wage for playing a game. Anyone making that kind of money and still whining about it should just be let go and they could go try to find a living on their "other skills". I think that people should get paid what they are worth. When 1 player can prove he will take a team all the way on his back I say pay him whatever he wants. Until then, it's a team sport and they all should get paid basically the same salary with bonuses paid for meeting performance threshholds(number of games won, strikeouts, basehits, homeruns, etc). Pay for performance. If a team makes the playoffs they should get a bonus. win the series get a bonus. If you're a star pitcher on a crap team why should you continue to make big $$$$?
Let them all go and bring up the minor league players. Start from scratch with pay caps and pay for performance and cut the price of tickets in half so a poor guy with a couple of kids could afford to go to a game once in awhile. Sure baseball would probably suck for a couple of years with all new players but the cream would rise to the top shortly and the old players would not be missed!!
