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BenFred: MLB and NFL are apples and oranges, but America's pastime should borrow these plays from America's most popular league

One is a juggernaut on a heat-seeking missile’s path for more (of everything), and it is powered by an audience that cannot get enough. The rocket may crash one day, but it's not going to be tomorrow, so full speed ahead.

The other is losing its grip on a romantic national pastime label as it retreats toward becoming a regionalized sport that, while wildly popular in pockets such as this one, is fading elsewhere.

One has a salary cap that comes with the pluses and minuses that offers. The other doesn’t, and seems to have little interest in considering it.