Busting cheap baseball owners' chops

It has come to my attention with the pennant races in progress that baseball stadiums are reaping high profit this time of year (well, for the most part all summer long they do). This means baseball owners are getting richer and richer. Even the Florida Marlins have a little chunk of change despite low attendances. The beef I have is with owners who are too cheap to pay for quality talent. They'd rather settle for mediocre replacements than position their team in contention for a playoff spot or at least finish the season with a shred of dignity.

I don't know why owners and GMs think can they pinch pennies and survive in the league, that's not how the system works. To be the best you're got to make wise sometimes hefty investments. That's why the same teams finish dead last or towards the bottom of the division almost every year. For instance, the Kansas City Royals swung a few deals to retrieve Reggie Sanders and Doug Mientkiewicz. These are supposed to be the two big stars on the club. Well, one is now injured. The point is Kansas City wouldn't stand a chance in hell of claiming 3rd place even if the AL Central wasn't so hot this season. For them to grow and prosper they'd have to start giving up a few top prospects for the right mixture of talent.

Over in the NL the Pirates and Nationals are going absolutely no where. The team owners have made a few trades, but for low-market players who can't single-handedly pull them out of the gutter. Before the trade deadline everyone anticipated that Alfonso Soriano would be traded. The Nats did make a smart move by keeping him. There isn't anyone else really big-name on Washington so it's going to take some enticing on their part to sign other star players in the off-season. Pittsburgh has a good crop of young prospects, however they still are stinking up the league due to lack of chemistry and veteran leaders. Their blockbuster deal before the deadline was trading Sean Casey to the Indians for some practically unknown, low-level player. The new ballpark hasn't linked any success over onto this team either.

I'm just so fed up with seeing underdogs continue to struggle year after year (especially the Cubs), falling to their demise before mid-season while cheap ass owners sit back in their nice, comfy luxury boxes and accept losing because either way they collect a fat paycheck. There are no rules or policies in baseball to force teams to spend extra revenue on acquiring new players, which guarantees that these clubs will go on sucking for the next decade or longer.