"Our Poignant Tweet of the Week comes from @dbk301, who writes: 'As a Royals fan this draft was depressing. The Yankees can spend $200 mil on team, but Royals can't spend $12 mil on draft.' Yup, pretty much. Teams can't help themselves (and the players union rightly won't budge) when it comes to sky-high salaries handed out to free agents. So the owners, led by John Schuerholz and other hold-the-line hawks, figured why not save a couple million on the draft and international spending if they can't pocket money elsewhere. Last week's amateur draft revealed the early consequences: A compelling event if you're a game theorist, but also one that restricts lower-revenue teams from investing heavily in the draft and has the net effect of widening the gap between haves and have-nots even more. Profits are wonderful, of course. Just remember that it's a bigger share of those profits, not any semblance of "competitive balance," that drives the Lords of the Realm. Fortunately for the rest of us, this season has been both competitive and — at least near the top — balanced. It's Week 10 of The 30."
Grantland
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