i'm not sure if the comment about this year's super bowl is sarcastic, but i am looking forward to this year's super bowl. i think it's awesome that carolina gets to go this year.

let's not forget that it's not only the salary cap that allows wildly different teams to go to the bowl every year. in football, the head coach, in my opinion, is far, far more important than in baseball. a good coach can enter a seemingly mediocre situation and install an offensive/defensive system tailored to his parts and make it work.

furthermore, it's easier to make the playoffs. furthermore, once in the playoffs, where it's one-and-out, a good coach can design a game plan to shut down the strenghts of the other team, plus there is the weather factor. it's quite possible that there would have been a different result in the pats-colts game if it had been played in normal weather.

still, something needs to be done with baseball's economic system. this topic has been beaten to death. one huge obstacle is the lack of national tv revenue. one good starting point would be to share merchandise revenue equally, as the nfl and the nba does (i'm not sure about the nba). this seems anti-capitalistic, but baseball owners need to think in more socialistic terms, as the nfl did in the 1960's and the nba did in the 80's and after the lockout, (i love the nba's revision of rookie income)