Journal Shadow Wrought's Journal: Hollow Joy? 9
So the Yankess won the World Series. Meh. They spent twice as much as any other team, save the Red Sox, and in some cases 4 if not 5 times as much. So what did they really win? Did they have any excuse, whatsoever, to not win? So what, exactly, did they accomplish?
This is why Baseball is declining, and will continue to do so until performance enhancing drugs are truly addressed and until there is a salary cap.
This is why Baseball is declining, and will continue to do so until performance enhancing drugs are truly addressed and until there is a salary cap.
It's all professional wrestling (Score:1)
The real issue isn't drugs and players' salaries. If those things had any effect, the Cubs would have a fighting chance.
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I have to agree - it's a for-profit business. It's bad enough that they try to get cities to pay for "their" stadiums (when studies show the cost benefits just aren't there), and that they have an anti-trust exemption. They already have the anti-trust exemption, so they're free to collude on player salaries - just that they don't trust each other, so they want a cap to protect the owners from their own greed. That's not the way to run a baseball league, or any other business.
If you want the game to imp
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have them pay their own way
That is an interesting notion in its own right. I recently read on wikipedia that George Steinbrenner [wikipedia.org] - the owner of the most expensive team in baseball, is actually less wealthy (by almost exactly a factor of 2) than Carl Pohlad [wikipedia.org] (owner of the Minnesota Twins, one of the lowest payroll teams in baseball, up until his recent death).
And yet if you read the wikipedia page on the latter you'll see it was the more wealthy owner who nearly netted millions by selling his team back to the MLB for contraction se
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If you think about it, the owner of the lower-cost franchise will always come out ahead financially.
Say we have two teams - mine has a payroll of $2 million, and yours has a payroll of $20 million.
Every time our teams play against each other, we split the box office 50/50.
Obviously, I'm riding on your coat-tails - but I'm the one with the most money at the end of the day.
Even if we make the split 80/20 in your favour, I end up ahead.
Maybe we need an open-source baseball league ... at the beginnin
Take the red pill. (Score:1)
See my other posting threads.
Did you enjoy your day at the Coliseum?
Or did you watch the games on the boob tube?
Ka ching! $
World series (Score:2)
I always find the name "world series" slightly amusing, when it considers the world to be the USA and Canada only :-)
I brought this up before... (Score:2)
I more recently very bluntly stated it is time for Bud Selig to quit [slashdot.org] in a more recent journal entry, for the same reasons you stated. And after the most expensive team in baseball bought this year's world series, I gave my prediction of what Steinbrenner will do next [slashdot.org].
I hope the people in th