Major League Baseball commissioner Bud Selig brushed off a suggestion that a salary cap could help the league. The idea's latest proponent was Mark Attanasio, who bought the Milwaukee Brewers from Selig's family. Selig wasn't ready to take a stand on an issue that could revive dormant tensions between owners and players. “I've talked to Mark about that, and I've talked to other owners,” Selig said on Tuesday during a seminar with Marquette University's law school. “But I'm just not going to comment on that. ... The cap has been talked about a lot. All caps are different. Some of them have worked, some haven't.” The current collective bargaining agreement doesn't expire until 2011, and Selig suggested securing long-term labor peace with continued economic reforms could be his final major achievement as commissioner. “The last year of my commissionership will be devoted to that,” Selig said. “So there's no sense in me sitting here today and engaging them on (a salary cap). We'll just watch how the system develops and what we need to do.” Selig praised measures MLB has taken to help teams in smaller media markets compete with big-market teams, such as revenue sharing and a luxury tax on teams with lofty payrolls. Selig used Tuesday's hour-long session with students to make the case that MLB was stronger than ever despite increased competition from an ever-expanding universe of entertainment options. Selig said MLB was “more popular than it's ever been” in the US and has significant growth potential overseas, adding he would like to see games played in Europe.
