I don't make many outside reading recommendations here. Hardly ever, actually.

This wonderful slice or research/opinion by my friend Mike DeCourcy of The Sporting News, and formerly of The Pittsburgh Press, is one hell of an exception. It's about why Major League Baseball needs a salary cap system, only it's from the players' perspective.

I can't tell you how refreshing it's been over the past couple of months to no longer be the only voice on the continent calling for this. It was fun for a while, but eventually, you get the sense that you're on this island. Better yet, Mike took this from an angle I'd never even considered, and he crushed it.

It's coming, my friends. It won't come casually, and it won't come quickly, but it'll come.