2011年1月23日星期日

ESPN and the players union will let things slide until such a time that there is some sort of serious problem

NOT teams.And naturally, just like the steroids problem, MLB and ESPN and the players union will let things slide until such a time that there is some sort of serious problem, such as an owner who WANTS to win and won't just shut up and take the dive and his 20-30 mill profit, and raises a serious stink.Even offers to make the team's books public!I can't swiss replica watches imagine even thinking of being a?Jays/Rays/Orioles fan and knowing that the only way that my team has a chance to win is if every player on my team has a career year, the umps make a lot of bad calls that just happen to go our way, and that so many of the Yankee players go on the DL that even they can't acquire enough replacements to succeed.

(Being a Red Sox fan would be fine because we would get the WC anyway and in a short series, anything can happen.)I have absolutely NO idea how a truly equal salary cap and floor could be generated other than by MLB itself, which would require each team to completely open its books to display ALL revenue streams up to and including its ticket replica brand watches resale companies, add all streams and divide by 30.But owners of popular franchises would object, especially those who make even more money than Forbes thinks they do.

But I think the first owners to really start to scream are the owners of the next 5 highest payroll clubs, who are still outgunned by all the Yankee money, and aren't ready to take a dive alone with the contented low payroll clubs.sighI suppose a lot of replica watch gift people are just going to tell me that I am only upset because I don't root for the Yankees, but a team with an inept GM and an owner whose foolishness has driven the franchise into a hole of the sort that will take years to emerge from (unless the owner decided to spend a very large amount of his OWN money, which is NOT going to happen.)