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The draft has always confused me.
Our national sports are decided by region of origin only.

That means there are some very weak teams, but at least there is no poaching or politics.
Ha, that would be crazy. That would really make the Warriors the best of all time And I imagine the Knicks might be good again

But no, our leagues the NBA, MLB and NFL they each have like teams in 30 cities and football drafts anyone they want from College, NBA drafts college athletes and international players and baseball drafts from junior high school it seems now.

Though the MLS is divided in regions but that is just because the teams are actually just neighborhood Sunday day league teams.
So essentially it goes down to money and publicity?
Um, well when a team cheers for a city. They don't care where those players are from. Yeah that really doesn't mean anything at all to us. White players are a plus in terms of marketing but yeah it doesn't matter where the players themselves are or there is no way Boston wins anything in this country. But you cheer for that city that's on their jersey.

That's just the American way, it's not really a corruption of sport if it was any other way, us capitalist sports fans would have all our fun taken away. It's exciting when your team signs a multi million contract with a Japanese player and then watch how it unfolds. Except when you pay this Japanese pitcher $126 million dollars and his name is Barry Zito and he's not Japanese at all.

I've heard a lot about this 6+5 rule Fifa installed. Yeah, that would never in a million years happen in the NBA, MLB or NFL no way.