MARLINS TO MAKE $30 MILLION PROFIT THIS YEAR

In slashing their payroll by nearly 75% this winter, the Marlins haven't just set themselves up for a last-place finish and an estimated single-season profit of at least $30 million.

• They also most likely put the issue of a minimum payroll back on the table for owners and players as they hash out a new Collective Bargaining Agreement this summer.

  Donald Fehr, executive director of the MLB Players Association, recently said a minimum payroll would be "one of the things to look at in bargaining." Fehr also was troubled by the second player sell-off in South Florida in 8 years.

  He said, "We need to examine the uses to which revenue sharing funds are put. That's a fairly significant issue, and it's not just Florida."

• Any NBA team that doesn't spend at least 75% of the salary cap is surcharged at the end of the season, with the difference put into a pool for the players.

Amazing story suggesting baseball teams consider luxury tax threshold as salary cap but FINALLY considering consequences for dilettantes who disrespect everyone else by not spending enough.

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