In today's sports world, we hear teams, mostly in major league baseball, pout and cry about how they can't win with a market as small as they have it. They don't have enough money to compete with the big guns, like the New Yorks, or the Bostons. But if you look at it, having a larger market doesn't translate into a winning team. Sure, having your team in a big market helps a lot but it in no way gives you an edge automaticly.

I'll use the biggest example, the New York Yankees. They, with the Mets, have the biggest market in all of baseball yet they are 8 games behind the Red Sox for the division crown and not moving up any faster. That's because years and years of buying the players they wanted got them alot of arrogance, so they depleted the farm system. I hate when people say they dislike the Yankees because they just win because they have the biggest market revenue and can buy all their players. That doesn't work out. The teams have to scout and develope to be good. Let's look at the Milwaukee Brewers. They have the second to last market size! Yet they're tied for the National League Central lead. They win by develepment. They brought up J.J.Hardy, Prince Fielder, Bill Hall, and Corey Hart. Those are all contributing players on the team. The Brew Crew didn't go out and cry about their market size, they made the best of a hard situation and took to the scouts to win. In the bottom 10 markets, 5 of those teams have winning record and lead the division, or are back by less than 5 games. That should be a point for all the teams, "cough, Pittsburg, "cough, that they can win just as easily as a larger market team with a little work and ingenutity. Here is the list of teams by market size.

1) New York, 2) Los Angeles, 3) Boston, 4) Aneheim, 5) Philedelphia, 6) Baltimore, 7) Seattle, 8)Chicago, 9) Atlanta, 10) Toronto,  11) Dallas(Rangers), 12) Miami(Marlins), 13)Detroit, 14) Houston, 15) Tampa, 16) Cleveland, 17)San Franciso, 18)Minnesota, 19)Cinncinatti, 20)Phoenix, 21)Oakland, 22)Denver, 23) St. Louis, 24) Pittsburg, 25) San Diego, 26) Milwaukee, 27)Kansas City.