Rest of Baseball Thread 2008

[PhillyPhreak54]

I think its Frank Wren now in ATL, Schuerholtz retired.

[BigEd76]

Teixeira to the Yankees for 8/$180M. 

$423M for three players in the last two weeks.

[reese125]

Steinbrenner is poor

[Rome]

Teixeira to the Yankees for 8/$180M. 

$423M for three players in the last two weeks.

Sabathia, Teixeira, Posada, Jeter, A-Rod & Burnett together will be paid more this season than the entire payroll of 2/3's of the teams in MLB.

But sure, there's no payroll disparity in baseball.   None at all.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

That's alright.  We'll all laugh as usual when they either flame out of the playoffs or don't make it at all.

[SD_Eagle5]

Yankees do harm to sports

Selig needs to grow a pair

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

So, you hippies want Obama to be the commissioner of baseball too?

If the Yankees were actually winning a bunch of championships by spending all this money, maybe there would be some sort of argument.  There is already a degree of profit-sharing in MLB, and the Yankees pay a lot more than anyone else.  You'd think with the Phillies winning the series, you fargers would quit whining about the Yankees not playing "fair."  Christ.  Get over it.

[QB Eagles]

A salary cap would make baseball more competitive and entertaining. The players union will never accept that though. I think a good alternative would be to have a system of promotion and relegation, so that teams that do poorly get busted down to the minor leagues. In the current arrangement, teams like the Pirates are more than happy to accept their paycheck from the Yankees and never bother to field a competitive team. The MLB itself could be split into two tiers rather easily.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

A salary cap would make baseball more competitive and entertaining.

No, it really wouldn't.  Again, it's been nearly a decade since the Yankees actually won anything.

I think a good alternative would be to have a system of promotion and relegation, so that teams that do poorly get busted down to the minor leagues.

That would be a good idea for hockey also.  And basketball.

In the current arrangement, teams like the Pirates are more than happy to accept their paycheck from the Yankees and never bother to field a competitive team.

The Pirates would go out of business if not the Yankees throwing big money at everyone - agreed.

[Rome]

That would be a good idea for hockey also.  And basketball.

And in your case, message boards.

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

That would be a good idea for hockey also.  And basketball.

And in your case, message boards.

It's a fabulous Christmas to be a crotchety, old gubment employee!  Have a merry, dickhead!

[shorebird]

The Yankees have a group of over paid individuals, not a team.

Of course, now that Mussina has retired, the Mike Mussina curse has been lifted, and they might actually win, but I doubt it.

[BigEd76]

Stark says the Dodgers are interested in signing white choke dawg

[hbionic]

Stark says the Dodgers are interested in signing white choke dawg

that sounds bad...who is that?

[SD_Eagle5]

Adam Dunn