Baseball

I'm a fuckin O's fan. Tanking is by far the worst thing in baseball. Some steps have been made to reduce the benefit of just losing your ass off for draft picks. But, even worse than those hard tanking years, it hurts the most seeing a really great farm-raised team not getting supplemented with some good pitchers because of the refusal of Angelos (owner of the Orioles) to spend any real money.

There's a rumor rolling around that maybe David Rubenstein is interested in buying the team, Baltimore native, hell of a lot of money... But unknown in the willingness to spend category. Owners that don't spend are far worse for this great game, in my opinion.

Superstar teams usually don't work either, mind you.. But not putting money into a team with the talent level of the O's in the past couple years? That's just straight fucked.

100% under-spending. Can't fault dodgers ownership for spending the money they make. Most ownership groups just pocket the money and put a sub-optimal lineup on the field.

The CBT should work both ways. Teams should give back their CBT money if they don't field competitive teams. It's one thing to try to do a lot on an efficient payroll, it's something else entirely to be given over $100M by your competitors and just pocket most of it.

Worse for baseball: underspending. Eternally cheap, bad teams can turn whole swathes of potential fans and players off the game.

Overspending is definitely frustrating to watch from the fan base of a team that could, but won't, spend, but putting more money into the sport isn't worse for it than fielding farcical loss machines.