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There are so many limits on competition that is boggles the mind. So much so that I can't even watch it because it reminds me of Stalin. But sports could redeem themselves by using market principles like everyone else for once. It's time to make sports for red blooded real Americans, and not for Trump Haters like Lebron James and Colin Kaepernick. Introducing Free Market Sports Let teams accumulate all points from previous games. Yeah, it's not fair, some might say, but they earned those points. Stop the social engineering of making the game tied at 0 at the beginning. Or tallying 'wins' from the beginning of the season. This ignores the legacy and hard work of those teams. Some of them going back 50 or 100 years or more. Is it any wonder athletes hate America when they have been coddled by this egalitarian foolishness for so long? Time for market principles over socialism. Let teams play as many players as they want during the game. This will allow more Americans to live the dream of playing professional sports. Getting them off welfare for good. Especially the 'urbans'. It will only hurt pampered athletes who have been treated like royalty for too long. It will decrease brain injuries when there is less (or almost no) individual physical movement and everyone can just be replaced at any time. We don't know how many players should be on each team, so let the market decide if it is 5, 11, or 158. Also certain plays could use 100 players but others might only need 79. Let teams decide what is best for their team and not self-interested referees who have often never played a real game or owned a large collection of people in their lives. Best of all, though, it crushes the unions. Let team owners buy points using their hard earned money. They should be able to pay each other for points or have them pay the league for those points. This lets expansion teams accumulate the points needed to catch up with established teams. And rewards money-making opportunities -- theme parks and restaurants -- over arbitrary factors like the game or whatever. The main system of 'points' should be for exchanging with other teams for money and not for its own sake. End the rules on how big fields and courts should be. Or even what materials they should have to use. Some newer teams might like to start out on smaller fields because it will cost less at first. Regulation only allows established teams to keep out smaller teams. Let elementary schools start their own pro teams using their gymnasiums and considerable number of players. Let Urban Youth in the Inner Cities start their own pro basketball teams on outdoor courts. Millions of Americans who can't play sports would also like to start their own small team. And getting rid of red tape allows that dream to come true. Let players play during time outs. If they want to keep playing, they should. Only some players need instructions from the coach or rest. But other players want to keep working hard accumulating points for the owners. When players are more numerous there is no need for breaks anyway. Fans don't like delays and they shouldn't have any. Allow teams to play multiple games at once. Currently there are rules on the total number of games per season, and rules that say you can't play in multiple cities at once. But a hard working team, with a roster of thousands of players, can easily play 10-20 games at once all over the country. This will allow them to hire even more players. And will again allow newer teams to catch up to established teams more quickly by accumulating points faster when they don't have the capital to buy points. This also frees teams from being based in one city or needing busses from location to the next. Get rid of the offseason. In a true market system, teams will be playing games every single day all day long and all over the country. Allowing more people to be hired and also more viewers to be entertained. Lower ticket prices will result from cheaper playing arenas and more games. More merchandise will be sold when there are jerseys for hundreds of thousands of players and when the game on people's minds constantly instead of only a few months out of the year and few hours out of a day. Also, because that merch buys points for the team. Stop recording stats for individual players, a waste of time and resources, and give that credit to those who deserve it: the team owners and general managers. Without them, players wouldn't even get hired in the first place! Also, there will be too many players to possibly count all of their stats in a real free market. You will just accumulate everything at the end of the game as a whole. Somebody has to take credit for it, though. And that guy will likely be rewarded with a bonus for what he did for you. Instead of having self-interested career referees (boo!) punish players for penalties, let the teams deal with it themselves. That can be done through paying the other team off or firing the offending player right away so they can be replaced with more obedient players. Or maybe the penalty is not really a penalty but just how the game works now. No sense in ruining the game if that is the case. Stop having games end after arbitrary time periods. Have them go on as long as the players can last or until all the merch and food is sold. Referees don't know what is best for employees, only the coach or manager knows that. Some teams might have the manpower to last for a few days or even weeks in a game. Some fans can sleep in their seats and buy merch for days on end. It's a wasted opportunity to earn money if they play only for a few hours. Alternatively, some towns are poor and don't buy very much merchandise. And those games can be cut short so they can move to another town quickly. Also, in free market sports, teams won't worry about 'wins' but the amount of points they've rack up over decades with countless numbers of games and players that hardly anyone remembers. This allows them to quit a game at any time to go elsewhere without shame. Or even just leave players stranded in a town if they aren't needed anymore. }}
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