Maybe Baseball Really Is America's Pastime

I am not, as a rule, a fan of baseball. I do admire the majors for one thing, however. As set out in this column, baseball is the only one of the major stick and ball sports where something resembling pure capitalism reigns. The rich get richer and the poor stay that way. Sounds harsh, but that's life. I would only add that for real capitalism to take hold, MLB needs to institute promotion and relegation, as most soccer leagues around the world do. That way, the bottom few MLB teams swap places with the best AAA teams every year. If Montreal can't cut it in the majors, it gets sent down to AAA.