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Re: A-Rod is red-hot
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Re: A-Rod is red-hot
Well I never said I hated Yankees players. I respect most that I think are good. I just hate the system and I cant hate the Yankees front office too. Their organization will not want change either, because it will end their chances of buying championships in the future.
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Re: A-Rod is red-hot
Like a hard cap for each team?
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Re: A-Rod is red-hot
Yeah atleast for the payroll, some other kind of cap on other spending like D-league.
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Re: A-Rod is red-hot
Baseball really needs this. This would help teams like the KC Royals to actually be competitive.
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Re: A-Rod is red-hot
The Royals have no one to blame but themselves. Their ineptitude on the field is due more to poor decision making than any salary cap concerns. Only the Royals would foolishly give Gil Meche a 5 year, $55 million contract.
Due to revenue sharing, the Royals received about $50 million in 2005 (as best I recall, it was somewhere around this number). Add to that local ticket sales (usually derived from top teams like the Yankees coming to town) plus local tv revenue and you're looking at at least $65 million (conservative estimate) in revenue coming into KC. Yet their payroll in 2005 was under $30 million. So where is the rest of that money going? And why are small market teams like Oakland and Minnesota able to compete? And even teams like Milwaukee, and Cincinnati have gotten stronger. The Royals are essentially being funded by the Yankees, Red Sox, Orioles and Dodgers of MLB yet I have no idea what they're doing with it. Beyond Alex Gordon, I don't even know what sort of future they have
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Re: A-Rod is red-hot
Anyone watching the Yankees game right now!!??!
The Yankees were up 3-0 and the Red Sox just hit three straight home runs!!! Its 3-3 now. Wow amazing game guys, you guys should switch over.
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Holy shit, they just hit the 4th in a row!!!
all in the bottom of the 3rd...4 straight homeruns to take the lead... 4-3
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I'm from Boston, I used to have season tickets til I moved away in 97...I gave the tickets to my brother. I had tickets to game 6 of the 04 world series, but we swept...so I was there for the parade and took all sorts of pictures. I dedicated one room to the 04 red sox...I even have an autographed baseball from every Red Sox player that started in the world series that year. Damon, Ramirez, Pedro...all of them. I have autographed pictures...I have the complete danbury mint gold cards for the 04 sox. I went crazy. I still get chills when I think about that team coming back from 3 games down vs the evil empire to win it all. ps- the Yanks are cursed and no one knows it. I call it the curse of the Moose. When they overpaid for him, they haven't won since. The curse is due to their ability to overspend "because they can".
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First time in Sox history, 4 HRs in a row.
Last time this was done in the MLB was 40 years ago....wow...
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No, the last time it was done in the AL was 40 years ago (or so). The last time it was done in MLB was last year by the Dodgers. It was the first time the Red Sox have ever done it.
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Yeah, SS dont you think there should be some kind of change? How is the current system fair?
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Hockey - cap Basketball - cap Football - complicated cap NASCAR - restrictions on cars to equal the playing field. Why not baseball?
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