How to fix baseball in a few easy steps

Much of the talk since the greatest World Series in recent memory concerning baseball has been about contraction. Is it a viable solution? Does it actually solve any of baseball's problems? Can the league actually do something like this? Well, while these are all good questions that should be answered, I think Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig is on the right track towards solving baseball's problems with his suggestion. Yet, he's not going far enough. \nTo start with, one of the biggest problems with baseball is the number of teams versus the amount of talent. It is not proportional. There are way too many teams, actually a sin all major sports are guilty of; and to boot the talent pool in baseball, especially for pitchers, is especially thin. Some of the players being trotted out by teams in situations are just downright pathetic. While it's true I couldn't throw a baseball through a side of a barn, much less hit a line drive single into said barn, I have a decent idea of bad baseball when I see it (I am a lifelong Cubs fan, after all). So, when I see some of these highlights on "SportsCenter" during the season, its easy for me to tell some of these players have no business being in the major leagues. \nSo, step one to fixing baseball is to contract a couple of the teams currently in the league. To start with, we're getting rid of the four most recent expansion teams, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Arizona Diamondbacks, Florida Marlins and Colorado Rockies. Granted, this wipes out the reigning World Series champion Diamondbacks and one of the more popular teams around in the Rockies, but too bad. These teams shouldn't have come into existance in the first place. This sets the number of teams at 26. Still too many. So we're going to knock out the Montreal Expos, also known as farm team to the majors, and the Anaheim Angels, who are owned by Disney even though they don't want them anymore. This sets it up at 24 teams, which is a good number. \nStep two is to allow any team with fans that don't support them to move to one of these deserted cities. After all it would be a shame for Coors Field to go unused. \nThe next steps involve the players. A dispersal draft will be set in place for the dissolved teams, worst record picks first and the New York Yankees pick last. This would disperse all the talent more evenly and hopefully create a more competitive environment. The final and most important part of my plan would be to institute a salary cap. Enough of one team spending as much as they want and thus overspending for a mediocre player. Set limits, thus making all players equally available to the teams, so players such as Jason Giambi would probably stay with the Oakland A's, the team that he has spent his whole career with, instead of probably leaving to the lush fields of money thrown at him by the Yankees. \nI think this would take care of the most prevalant problems existing in baseball today. Sure, other things could be taken care of, such as going back to the two division format and two playoff teams as well as eliminating interleague play, but I am only one person and can only make so many changes at once. So we will stick to these changes, and maybe baseball can get back to the game instead of drinking in the pool in right field because "some game is going on behind that fence"