The looming threat of a lockout in Major League Baseball is threatening the immediate future of the sport in a way we haven't seen since 1994, but it's also a reckoning that simply needs to happen. The financial disparity between the spending power of the Los Angeles Dodgers (and New York Mets) and low-operating-budget teams like the Pittsburgh Pirates has simply grown too wide.
Hence, as unlikely as it seems, a salary cap hasn't just been floated as a possibility — it sounds like the owners are going to drag the entire league through an ugly, elongated, public battle for the right to institute one.