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Topics in baseball

"I can't believe how much players make."
"I don't like Alex Rodriguez because he followed money instead of going to a good team."
"The biggest contract ever was signed by Alex Rodriguez. It was a 10 year deal for two hundred and fifty million dollars."

"Most good players usually make above five million dollars a year."

"Baseball doesn't have a salary cap. That's why the Yankees are so powerful. They have the money to buy all the good players."

"I think baseball would be more fair if there was a salary cap."
Although grammatically, fairer is more correct than more fair, it is common to use it this way when speaking. It is based on sound and flow of sentence. Using more in front of fair is emphasizing more.

"The difference between National league and American league is that the pitcher doesn't bat in American League. They have a designated hitter that bats for the pitcher."

"It's good that Byung Hyun Kim went to the American league. He wasn't a good batter."

"Byung Hyun Kim was at a Seattle night club the other weekend."