To Contract, or Not To Contract
To Contract or not To Contract, That is the Question The 2001 Major League Baseball Season is long gone. Barry Bonds shattered Roger Maris' old home run record of 61, and strutted right past Mark McGwire's recent home run record of 70, by hitting 73 home runs just this past season. But the major story this season isn't about how many home runs Barry Bonds will hit this year, or talk of who is going to win this year's World Series. The topic right now is contraction. Contraction in baseball is the elimination of an even number of teams. This is done so that the league can rid itself of any franchises that are not able to compete with the rest of the league anymore. Contraction is not a bad thing; it helps make the league more competitive, but I am in complete disagreement with one of the selections that Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig chose to contract.When Commissioner Selig decided that he was going to rid Major League Baseball of at least two teams, it caught a lot of people off guard. There had been quite a bit of talk over the past couple of years about contracting some teams, but nobody believed Selig would follow through with it. There was a lot of positive feedback, though, when the idea was first m
These are a few of the teams who should obviously be contracted before the Minnesota Twins, and the list could go on. It's been clear for quite some time now that the Expos were going to be contracted. The Minnesota Twins are fighting their contraction. Here's a team that finished the 2000 season with a record of 73 wins and 89 losses while playing in the old, decrepit Milwaukee County Stadium. The Twins have experienced quite a bit of success within the past fifteen years; they've even won a World Series within that time. The other point to be debated here is that the Twins have an endless amount of potential to be an extremely successful team this year, if not in the near future. The Twins franchise is also in search of a new stadium-which may keep them out of the contraction-perhaps putting them in the "sacred team" group of players with new stadiums. This season, the Twins currently hold the second best record in the entire league with a record of 20 wins and just 11 losses! They are a young and exciting team to watch, and Commissioner Selig has no obvious reason to contract the Minnesota Twins. Then in the 2001 season they begin playing in their brand new stadium, Miller Park. Then, quite obviously, contraction could be a potential solution since a team with a miserable record surely does not generate revenue because it does not attract fans. The question on everybody's mind was "who is the second team going to be?" When Commissioner Selig announced that the Minnesota Twins were the second team targeted for contraction, he might as well have been involved with the terrorist attacks of September 11th. Contraction most definitely should be based upon team performance. With a record of 9 wins and 21 losses this season, the Brewers certainly should be under scrutiny as a questionable "keeper" and in my book the new stadium has not made one bit of difference in their performance. It was obvious that the Montreal Expos would be one of the two teams contracted.
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