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Posted by Neil Paine on November 29, 2009  I don't need to tell
you that ever since the Yankees won the World Series earlier
this month, there's been a lot of renewed discussion about
whether or not New York's payroll advantage finally "bought"
them a championship, and if a salary cap is needed to restore
competitive balance to baseball. That topic has really been
talked about to death over the past few weeks, but I feel like a
salary cap -- ostensibly designed to prevent the Yankees from
spending $50 million more than the next highest-payrolled team
-- is only half of the discussion. If all you do is put a cap on
team payrolls, you're still going to have cheapskate owners who
take their revenue-sharing money and fail to invest it in their
teams, owners who have learned to game the system and are
content to put a poor product on the field if it means they can
keep more cash for themselves.  So, obviously, you need to talk
about a salary floor ev