Upshaw is most troubled by high-revenue teams who devote less than 50 percent of their revenue to player costs.

We still have some fairly unhealthy differences between our high-revenue teams and low-revenue teams.

Without a salary cap, high-revenue teams would have the finances to pursue players that lower revenue teams could not.

To the north, meanwhile, the Los Angeles Dodgers had maintained their status as a high-revenue team.

But with so few existing high-revenue teams, how are all of these players supposed to be traded?

Several owners of high-revenue teams would also like to see less control by the league office and could resist Goodell.

Operating without a cap in 2007 could change the competitive balance quickly, with high-revenue teams spending more freely than others.

It wasn't all that many years ago that Lucchino was an important advocate for baseball's high-revenue teams.

This might disappoint owners of high-revenue teams who could be profitable under the new system.

You don't want to have year after year domination by high-revenue teams.