{"id":328023,"date":"2025-12-04T21:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328023\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:29:07","slug":"the-short-porch-is-curious-about-mlbs-fan-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328023\/","title":{"rendered":"The Short Porch is curious about MLB\u2019s fan council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">In its presentation, MLB compared the Dodgers to the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League, a circuit that has a salary cap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThe Cowboys are like the most recognized fan base or recognized sports team in all of sports,\u201d Reds fan Kuffner recalled of the points MLB made. \u201cThey have to play by the same rules basically as everybody else in the NFL, whereas the Dodgers can go spend more money than the (Colorado) Rockies or the Reds. And they showed some slides of, over the last however many years, this is how many small-market teams have won, and this is how many big-market teams have won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">But any conversation about competitive balance inevitably leads to the economic and structural elements of the sport. Asked what the league told fans about labor, Caplin replied, \u201cWe have not discussed labor and\/or the upcoming CBA negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">That characterization is tenuous. A salary cap and spending were ultimately discussed during the presentation, participants said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In its presentation, MLB compared the Dodgers to the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League, a circuit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328024,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,183954,591,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-328023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-chicago-cubs-commentary-and-analysis","11":"tag-mlb","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}