Is Parity in Sports Really A Good Thing?

Parity, parity, parity...that seems to be all we hear about in sports today. Commissioners strive for it saying it helps the little guy and that it'll keep more fans interested if more teams are in the hunt. Some baseball GM's like the idea of revenue sharing, some (like The Steinbrenner's despise it). But what has all this love and good will for all teams ultimately led too?

SHIT TEAMS!!!

Look at baseball right now. Sure you can say it's an oddity that happens once in a while, but other than the AL Central Race, virtually every other divisional or wild card race has been finished and finished for a while.

Toronto, Baltimore, Kansas City, Cleveland, Oakland, New York (Mets), Washington, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Houston, San Diego and Arizona flat out suck. That's almost half the league!!!! Many of these teams are virtually unwatchable. You then have a host of other teams...Tampa Bay, Chicago (White Sox), Seattle, Chicago (Cubs), Milwaukee that are borderline awful, leaving only 12 teams that were really ever in the hunt for the playoffs this year.

Think it only extends to baseball? I know we are only in Week 2, but already it's clear in the NFL who sucks.

Washington, Detroit, Tampa Bay, Carolina, St. Louis, Cleveland, Jacksonville, Kansas City and then you have that second level of teams who may not be much better...Cincinnati, Buffalo, Houston, Tennessee, Seattle and Chicago.

Now I'm not saying the Jets or 49ers couldn't make a spectacular run to the Big Game in Miami but in truth, you'd probably have confidence in only eight teams as Super Bowl caliber: New York (Giants), Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Atlanta, New Orleans, Minnesota, New England and maybe Indy.

A fourth of the league? Is this the parity we are looking for?

How about the days when there were 5 or 6 great teams, another 15 or so good teams and then the rest awful.

Dynasties are ok folks. Teams love building and other teams love tearing them down.

Let's stop always worrying about the quantity of the league and focus more on the quality!