9/22/24 1:35PM Tigers @ Orioles

[Tigermojo]

KC losing 1-0

[gehringer_2]

good thing they got a couple already because Suarez is dealing now.

[chasfh]

1 hour ago, Sports_Freak said:

Parity. Now we just need a hard salary cap in baseball. These Yankee and Dodger team just spend their way to wins.

Yankees: one ring in the last 20 seasons (since 2003).

Dodgers: one ring in the last 35 seasons (since 1988).

I think things are fine as they are. No need to maximize profits for lifetime billionaires by depressing salaries for players who have only a few years of top earnings, if even that.

[Sports_Freak]

I looked it up and found the formula. Let the jokes begin;

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Dang, heads-up by Madden to cover 3B

[Sports_Freak]

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Yankees: one ring in the last 20 seasons (since 2003).

Dodgers: one ring in the last 35 seasons (since 1988).

I think things are fine as they are. No need to maximize profits for lifetime billionaires by depressing salaries for players who have only a few years of top earnings, if even that.

Maybe it would control costs for the fans? Pitchers making over a million dollars a start? Sure, just raise ticket prices. Suckers....errr...fans will pay it.

[chasfh]

Wow, what a great play to get the runner at third, and heads up by Ty Madden the pitcher to get over there for the play!

[Tigermojo]

Ty Madden just punched a cow in the face.

[Sports_Freak]

7 minutes ago, Tigermojo said:

KC losing 1-0

2-0 now.

[chasfh]

Just now, Sports_Freak said:

Maybe it would control costs for the fans? Pitchers making over a million dollars a start? Sure, just raise ticket prices. Suckers....errr...fans will pay it.

Do you believe owners would lower prices for fans if they could lower salaries for players? Is that how it works?

[chasfh]

Man, the Red Sox are beating the living snot out of the Twins in game one.

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Do you believe owners would lower prices for fans if they could lower salaries for players? Is that how it works?

Fans have been screaming about players salaries for close to 100 years. A famous quote from Babe Ruth is when he was asked if he knew he was making more that the POTUS, he said "well, I had a better year" 

I just want a level playing field for small market teams. The Dodgers have been in the playoffs for how many years in a row? How about Milwaukee?

[IdahoBert]

Eight up eight down since Carpenter’s home run. 

[Tigermojo]

Doh

[IdahoBert]

2-run jack for Mullins. 

[chasfh]

4 minutes ago, Sports_Freak said:

Fans have been screaming about players salaries for close to 100 years. A famous quote from Babe Ruth is when he was asked if he knew he was making more that the POTUS, he said "well, I had a better year" 

I just want a level playing field for small market teams. The Dodgers have been in the playoffs for how many years in a row? How about Milwaukee?

Counterpoint: Tampa has been one of the best teams of the past 15 years and have never risen out of the lower third of player payrolls. The Mets have had the highest payroll in the game for a couple years. They didn’t even make the playoffs last year, and their fighting for the #3 wild card right now, same as us.

The Dodgers—and the Yankees, for the matter—have never just thrown money around. They have both built formidable infrastructures that don’t depend solely on large player salaries.

I don’t believe suppressing player salaries in the services of increasing owner profits is a good solution to what hasn’t even been established as the problem.

[gehringer_2]

we have a ball game again.

[holygoat]

Uh oh...

[IdahoBert]

We really need a double play to put an end to this nonsense

[Sports_Freak]

2 minutes ago, chasfh said:

Counterpoint: Tampa has been one of the best teams of the past 15 years and have never risen out of the lower third of player payrolls. The Mets have had the highest payroll in the game for a couple years. They didn’t even make the playoffs last year, and their fighting for the #3 wild card right now, same as us.

The Dodgers—and the Yankees, for the matter—have never just thrown money around. They have both built formidable infrastructures that don’t depend solely on large player salaries.

I don’t believe suppressing player salaries in the services of increasing owner profits is a good solution to what hasn’t even been established as the problem.

Works for every other major American sport. But..OK.

[IdahoBert]

Tied

[Crazy Cat Gentleman]

Ugh. I guess it's better than being down 3-0, though.

[gehringer_2]

man that was one flat slider.

[SeattleMike]

1 minute ago, IdahoBert said:

Tied

Tough lineup and ballpark for righthanded pitcher struggling with his command. 

[chasfh]

1 minute ago, Sports_Freak said:

Works for every other major American sport. But..OK.

Does it? How so?