This is worthless speculation without the amounts that each team got from the big teams.

Seems the top recipients - likely the Marlins as usual - could be getting in the neighborhood of $45 MM if extrapolating the % increase to the top '05 payee.

Meaning Loria got in the neighborhhod of $10MM more than his player payroll - again! Good to see this point was pushed for the first time this season. Seems it might be time for a "poor tax" - perhaps structured much like the luxury tax, that subtracts rev share payments from those not effectively reinvesting and redistributes it back across the pool in some manner.

I'm a Yankee fan, and a rev. sharing fan. But there has to be some teeth to the program so some clubs can't keep taking it to the bank.

Maury - any news on what the Central Fund payout was for '09? Revenue likely continues to grow here faster than local revenue streams, thanks to Internet, etc.

They'd have to divide up local revenues as well as national revenues. It takes two clubs to put on a show, and splitting the revenue, regardless of the venue, between the two participants would be a good start to a more level playing field.

in the revenue sharing pool?