World Series?
- Thread starter gautrp
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No thanks. No salary cap, no interest.
For me...
From September to January it's college football.
From January to June it's Hockey.
From June to September it's me on the lake fishing.
For me...
From September to January it's college football.
From January to June it's Hockey.
From June to September it's me on the lake fishing.
No salary cap is a bad thing? Baseball has the most parity of any major sport. Granted the Dodgers have the highest payroll, but 10/15 highest payrolls didn't even make the playoffs...... and the Astros have the 18th highest payroll. Hell even the lowest payroll, Brewers, competed all year and had a shot to win a Wild Card birth.
It has been proven that high payrolls do not correlate to World Series rings in baseball. Some of the Dodgers postseason stars are relatively no-names (Taylor, Turner, Hernandez, Rich Hill.....)
I don't know much about NHL payrolls, but look at the NBA..... it is October and everyone already knows who will be competing at the end of the year.
Salary cap=socialism lol. If anything I would like them to enforce a salary floor that requires some of the bottom teams to spend more... especially considering all the revenue sharing they get from the luxury tax.
In a perfect world there should be no salary cap. But...its not perfect. Far from perfect.
Example. I don't know the exact numbers but...15 years ago approximately the Yankees got from the msg network sonething like 200 million to televise their games. The royals from their TV deal got around 12 million. Yes twelve.
So before any revenue sharing it luxury tax the Yankees are automatically working with 188 million more than the royals.
I agree there should be a floor of spending but there also needs to be a cap.
The only teams that can keep players from career start to end us basically the huge market teans. I'm sorry but there is something wrong with that. Perhaps some of that was changed with Curt floods challenge but regardless when it's big contract time the smaller market teams have a hard time hanging onto their drafted players.
Point to whatever reason but kids just don't identify with baseball teams any more. Sure they have more things today to occupy their attention but it sure doesn't help when players they grow up seeing ate jumping ship.
The basketball thing....first of all basketball is a sport that can be dominated by an individual if he's good enough. Just the nature of the game especially now with a few elite players and the rest average at best. That runs in cycles.
Hockey a much more dynamic sport and one that can't be dominated by one individual has true parity...along with the NFL.
One would say the Yankees got all that money for their TV rights because they pay a lot of money to put star players on the field? How many WS did the Yankees win when they were buying up all the stars? I believe 09 was their only year? When they dominated they did it with a core group of guys they developed.... which proves my original point.... you cannot buy a WS ring....
Money buys anything. Yankees have almost 30 WS rings to prove it. It goes back to buying Babe Ruth from the Red Sox. Houston wins this WS because of the story it will bring.
Wait what? You say money buys anything..... then you say Houston will beat out the highest payroll in baseball?
That's bullshit.
Jeter and Bernie williams had big roles but the Yankees were winning because of all the pitching and they didn't draft and develop their pitchers, they bought them.
Clemens
Sabathia
Cone
Wells
Mussina
Gooden
Rogers
I know I'm missing some...but those pitchers right there were all drafted and rose up the ranks so to speak on somebody else time and the Yankees just come in and out big whomever.
You forgot about the 'Core-4' that won most of the WS for the Yankees..... Pettit, Jeter, Posada, and Rivera...... that was the heart of the team that dominated the late 90's.... all raised within their system.... add guys like Bernie, Scott Brocius, Tino Martinez, Chuck Knoblauch, Cecil Fielder....(not saying they were all home-grown, just saying they are all average at best players) and you get the last dynasty in baseball.... hardly a 'loaded' lineup.
The majority of the guys you listed off came after that run..... Also, you listed some pretty average pitchers that span over 20 years lol..... nothing says 'stacking your team' like Mike Mussina.
Like I have been saying repeatedly..... The highest payrolls do not equate to WS rings!
MLB has no Salary Cap (hard anyway) yet they have the most parity in all of the sports? Seems like I see the same teams in the NBA, NHL, and even the NFL come up towards the end of the postseason every year. MLB hasn't had a repeat winner since.... what? The Yankees back in 99/2000 (with the core-4)?
Not to worry. The poster at issue is known for not making any sense.
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