That's how Washington Post sportswriter Neil Greenberg begins his April 1 article headlined: "Baseball's Competitive Balance Problem Is Getting Worse".
Articles like this are far from rare. Sportswriters bemoan the state of the modern game: Teams that "spend lavishly on payroll" are "the teams likely to compete for the World Series title". And "small-market clubs" (the definition of which changes depending on who is making the argument) cannot keep up and now "the gap between them and their free-spending counterparts is wider than ever".
Yes, well, when has that not been the case?