as you can see from my name and avatar, i am a die-hard met fan (please don't ask about the last two years...it's been rough). anyway, coming from a fan of a large market team, i can say that though i love when my team gets new players (psyched about K-Rod and JJ Putz), the Yankees make me sick (only hate the Phils more than them) with all the spending and i believe there should be a salary cap (and salary floor for teams like the Marlins and Royals who pocket revenue sharing $$). i don't think it's killed the game as badly as people say, because the low revenue teams still find ways to win. however, it gets bad when those low rev teams can't hang onto their homegrown players. now as a met fan, the thing that disappoints me most is that the Mets will shell out for the big player most of the time (75%), but they seem to spend less in the draft which i truly hate. we've had our big prospects at times, with David Wright and Jose Reyes (through internt'l free agency) but other than that, the team doesn't pay out for the guys who fall through the cracks in the draft, so to speak, like teams such as the Red Sox do. i'd almost rather them spend more on the draft and build up a top farm system and ML team with homegrown talent, then buy all of these hired guns who tons of money, who are over the hill, anyway.