"McClatchy's Pirates demonstrate the art of doing less with more" Volume 8, Issue 20 by James Hays Jr.

In this article Andrew Zimbalist talks of how Kevin McClatchy has turned the Pittsburgh Pirates into one of baseballs best overall profits my making an estimated 12.8 million dollars in this past year. He states, though the Pirates keep losing and getting worse each year, they keep pulling in more and more revenue.
However, later in his article, Zimbalist states that the Pirates keep pulling in more income and revenue, but keep getting worse each year because they cannot generate that revenue towards the salary of the team. It is stated that the small markets teams will get up to "$300 million" in revenue sharing but if they win and get better they have to give back "more than 45%" of that back as reduced transfer payments from MLB.
In my opinion, I think this is ludoucris because it means those who are in small markets who improve jsut have to give back the money they jsut earned in revenue, forcing them not to improve their payrolls. Plus, the big market teams still benefit from this the most because the money they earn is so much more that their 45% still leaves them with hundreds of millions in earnings each year. This 55% the big market teams have left over in the end, is still more than the 100% earned bythe small market teams.
Until, baseball can come up with a system that rewards the small market teams who improve their field performance and revenues, and punishes the big markets who faulter in on-field perfomance; the davids will keep losing, and goliath will keep prevailing over all.