http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/sports/141800093.html
Glendale, Ariz. - It's an old argument, but Brewers general manager Doug Melvin says he's going to keep beating that dead horse until nothing is remaining.
And that's the September call-up rule that allows teams to have as many as 40 players on the roster after Sept. 1. Of course, many small-market teams can't afford to do it. Melvin would like to see it standardized to 30.
"I kill this thing to death and nothing ever happens," Melvin said. "Why in September do we have unbalanced rosters? We're creating another playoff team and you still don't have balanced rosters of 30-on-30 in September. It still favors the large markets."
Melvin speculated that the St. Louis Cardinals - who made the playoffs last season as a wild card, beat the Brewers in the NLCS and went on to win the World Series - would not have been in the post-season otherwise.
"I still say that St. Louis doesn't get in if it's 30-on-30," he said. "Tony La Russa was a master at manipulating all the players that he had. They had a kid, (Adron) Chambers. They won a couple of games pinch-running with him late. They got Arthur Rhodes late. They play a team like Houston late in the season. They say they're rebuilding with minimum-salary guys. They're not going to bring up guys to accumulate service time. That's my biggest beef."
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Cards are a large market team?
