TOP 11 REASONS WHY MLB MAY HAVE ACHIEVED PARITY

by DMtShooter, Five Tool Tool

When the best record in baseball belongs to the Chicago Cubs, and 11 teams are within 5 games of first place after more than a third of the games have been played, and only one team (again, the Cubs) are on pace to win 100 games, there can be no argument: parity has come to major league baseball. But why?

11. Alyssa Milano has been to enough clubhouses, if you catch our drift

10. New and harder era for steroids is proving remarkably unforgiving to old and highly priced talent

9. Devaluation of American dollar has made revenue sharing more meaningful

8. High price of gasoline is making low market teams carpool, adding to team unity

7. Sound of construction outside of Mets and Yankees stadiums is keeping those players up nights

6. Given that it's a presidential election year, you can more or less count on wackiness in Florida

5. The last time the year ended in '08, the Cubs won a World Series, so you'd be insane to take this year's results seriously

4. The Rockies' humidor clearly doesn't work anymore; last year's NL Champions have the worst record in MLB

3. Even the bad teams have recognized that if you give a guy a bobblehead day, he almost always go yard

2. With no one taking up the mantle of Grady Little, strikingly idiotic managers are nearly extinct, creating a leveling effect

1. Given that the Rays have been in first place in the American League East for some time now, it's clear that the world will be ending any minute now