Bob Nutting is the problem

Drexel Heikes writes that the game is broken, both the owners and players being at fault (“Bob Nutting’s Not the Problem,” Aug. 31), His solution: a salary cap. However, he’s only half right.

Without also instituting a salary floor, owners like Bob Nutting will choose not to spend up to the level of the cap, resulting in no change in the Pirates situation. Owners like Nutting, who’s sole motive is profit, need to be forced to at least attempt to compete. If he can’t, those chanting for him to sell the team will get their wish.

Baseball is indeed broken, in large part because owners like Bob Nutting are perfectly content to accept subsidies from the other owners and not take the risks inherent with trying to win. The other owners share revenues knowing Pittsburgh is one less team to stand in their way of winning a World Series.

For them, it’s an acceptable part of the cost of doing business. That’s the real problem with Baseball.

DENNIS FISCHER
Gibsonia