I type this note a few hours before the Kansas City Royals play the San Francisco Giants in Game 7 of the 2014 World Series.

By the time you read this in the paper, the 2014 Midterm elections will have taken place as well.

How could I possibly tie these two events together? Stay with me, please.
About 90 years ago, the Supreme Court of the United States declared that Major League Baseball has an antitrust exemption.

With this exemption, MLB has been able to restrict the number of teams in the major leagues.

Currently, there are 30 teams. The MLB stars of today make more money in real terms than Babe Ruth made in his day (about 90 years ago).

Perhaps James Shields, with a salary of $13.5 million on the Kansas City Royals, will be remembered like the Babe.

Maybe. I submit to you that if the antitrust exemption was taken away by an act of Congress, there would be more MLB teams and player salaries would be decreased.

If you are a fan of income equality, then put pressure on Congress to EXPAND, BABY, EXPAND. Spread the wealth.

The big pot of money, generated because we the people like baseball, would be spread out to more players.

Would it be okay with you if the average MLB player earned $800,000 instead of $4 million?

Okay, I hear many of you say the quality of play will fall. Really?

The Kansas City Royals, with the 18th highest salary structure this year out of the 30 teams, were on very few lists to make the post-season this year, let alone to be in Game 7.

The last time they made it to the post-season was in 1985, when they last won the World Series.

A variation of an old joke would be, why doesn’t Columbia, Mo., have a MLB team? Because then Kansas City would want one.

Sure, there would be some growing pains and the Yankees will be back on top soon, but more than 1,200 guys on the planet (40 players, 30 teams) are worthy of MLB in a year, right?

Spread the wealth.