Rest of Baseball 2010

[MDS]

Lol

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Matt Stairs hit another PH HR yesterday, setting a new MLB record

Christ, maybe the Phils should bring back Eyre.

[rjs246]

I chuckled.

[hbionic]

I chuckled.

I'm pretty sure you didn't chuckle but most likely giggled like a little school girl.

Hot?

[PhillyPhreak54]

So whats up with these financial documents being leaked?

Apparently it was revealed that the "poor" Pirates are raking it in and not putting it back into the club.

[QB Eagles]

Apparently it was revealed that the "poor" Pirates are raking it in and not putting it back into the club.

Everyone in Pittsburgh has been aware of that at least since I moved here 5 years ago. Back then some people were still angry about it, two Super Bowl wins and a Stanley Cup later they don't even give a shtein.

[PhillyPhreak54]

I did not know that.

Were there any actual numbers released?

[QB Eagles]

Yeah, the numbers are all over. Here's the AP report, here's the team's response

[PhillyPhreak54]

By 2010, the Pirates had baseball's lowest opening-day payroll - $34.9 million or just $2 million more than in 1992, the club's last winning season.

Wow, thats shocking. To only increase it $2M in 18 years...dreadful.

[PhillyPhreak54]

http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=jp-marlinsfinancials082410

Absolute rip job by Passan on the Marlins owner.

Wow. Jeffrey Loria is a scumbag.

Owner Jeffrey Loria and president David Samson for years have contended the Marlins break even financially, the centerpiece fiscal argument that resulted in local governments gifting them a new stadium that will cost generations of taxpayers an estimated $2.4 billion. They said they had no money to do it alone and intimated they would have to move the team without public assistance.

In fact, documents show, the Marlins could have paid for a significant amount of the new stadium's construction themselves and still turned an annual operating profit. Instead, they cried poor to con feckless politicians that sold out their constituents.

The ugliness of the Marlins' ballpark situation is already apparent, and the building doesn't open for another 18 months. Somehow a team that listed its operating income as a healthy $37.8 million in 2008 alone swung a deal in which it would pay only $155 million of the $634 million stadium complex. Meanwhile, Miami-Dade County agreed – without the consent of taxpayers – to take $409 million in loans loaded with balloon payments and long grace periods. By 2049, when the debt is due, the county will have paid billions.

[QB Eagles]

there is no taxpayer funded stadium in the united states that has been a good deal for taxpayers. it's a pure racket, as innumerable studies have proven. it taxes everybody to build playgrounds for the rich, it primarily benefits those rich, and to the extent they generate economic activity around the stadium (which is usually overblown anyway), they simply relocate it from other parts of the city. a complete scam.

[PhillyPhreak54]

After reading that is there any way that Loria, or any other executive who lied about cash flow and/or assets, can be charged with fraud?

[ice grillin you]

there is no taxpayer funded stadium in the united states that has been a good deal for taxpayers. it's a pure racket, as innumerable studies have proven. it taxes everybody to build playgrounds for the rich, it primarily benefits those rich, and to the extent they generate economic activity around the stadium (which is usually overblown anyway), they simply relocate it from other parts of the city. a complete scam.

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20100825_Thanks_to_a_sea_of_red__city_s_seeing_more_green.html

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

Braves are having a tough go of it.  I hear MDS just texted BigEd to make sure he's not in possession of anything sharp.

[ice grillin you]

zito in for his second relief appearance ever is facing a first and third one out