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The Yankees Will Save Baseball, Heal the Sick
New York, 3:48 PM
Thu Dec 10
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The Toronto Blue Jays have countered by invading the Falkland Islands.
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The Sudantenland! It's like the Sudetenland, but with African genocide!
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Manny Ramirez was considering the Nationals because he figured he could score cheap blow in the District of Colombia.
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There is no point in pissing and moaning that competition in MLB will come to an end because of how much the Yankees spend. As a matter of fact, most of this bitching comes from Boston, who have the second-highest payroll in the game, which makes their crying over kettle's spending a little hypocritical. And those Royals and Pirates are not victims; they have money, they choose not to spend it.
The fact is, the Yankees have not won a championship in eight years, teams have won World Series with as less as a third of their payroll during this time, and last year the Yankees didn't even make the playoffs. So consider the lesson the Cowboys gave us last Sunday: you can buy talent, but you can't buy a team.
If you still cannot grasp this concept, then shut the fuck up, and let the rest of us focus on the other 28 teams in the leagues.
/Rabble rabble rabble
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You realize the NFL has a salary cap and 100% revenue sharing, right?
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The Royals and Pirates suck because they are run poorly, not because they have no money. A team like the Pirates can afford their own players on their 2nd or 3rd contract. Who's gonna give fucking Paul Maholm 82 million dollars?
The only thing a salary cap does is transfer the wealth from the players to the owners.
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Okay, but if those teams had been run well, what's the shelf life for them to make a run at a championship? 3 years? Look at a well-run team like Oakland, that's forced to pre-emptively dismantle itself before being ravaged by free agency, since it can't afford to keep any of its own players once they hit the open market (although the Holliday trade is intriguing).
The Rays had a combination of sucking ass for years, making good draft picks at the top of the draft (unlike, say, Pittsburgh), getting a bit lucky with guys like Carlos Pena and James Shields, and stealing Kazmir from the Mets. Anything less and they would have had no chance.
For the Jays, Rays or Orioles to compete, everything has to break just right at the exact right time. That's a pretty tough standard to set.
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I'm not denying that the Pirates and Royals are (VERY) poorly run. But even if they weren't, they still wouldn't be able to compete for the same free agents with teams like NY or Boston.
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@Kid Canada:
Valid points, but I don't think the money spent equals value. Boston spends money, but their success is due largely to their drafting/scouting skills. Look around the league, most of the teams that win are built from within. Take the Phillies for example- Utley, Howard, Rollins, Hamels, Myers, Victorino. None are high priced free agent acquistions. All are a product of scouting/drafting.
I just think a cap gives owners who don't want to spend an excuse and lowers the rewards for competent front offices.
Right now there are teams that receive money via revenue sharing and pocket the money. Why would they suddenly start spending that (or any of their own money) if a cap were in place? Why penalize owners that are willing to invest in their team?
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To make this argument you have to show that the teams are making sizable profits that they choose not to re-invest in the clubs. Do the Pirates and Royals (etc.) need the revenue sharing funds to stay afloat, or is it just increasing the money in the coffers?
This isn't like McDonald's and Burger King where if Burger King went out of business, it would be good for McDonald's. The Yankees can't put all of the other teams out of business because they would have nobody to play against.
As for the Phillies, yes, they drafted all those guys. Kudos. They're also able to pay Howard $10 million, Utley $12 million, Rollins $8 million, etc. How about Milwaukee, who has drafted an excellent core but had no chance at all to re-up Sabathia to supplement it?
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That way the Royals have good scouts, so we can buy their talent from them once they develop it!
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If this leads to Steve Phillips and Stephen A. Smith being cap casualties, I'm all for it.
Also, the next person that mentions Manny in my office is getting pee in his morning coffee...this, I vow.
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