MLB sucks

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: JS80
Am I the only person that enjoys watching baseball but can't stand football?

no you are not

i watch real Football over US football also

 

[chalmers]

Some of the people in this thread are rude. Anyway, I did some analysis of this year..too lazy to do it for any other years.

Current team standings with their payroll ranking compared to their division counterparts in parentheses.

AL EAST

1. Yankees (1st)
2. Red Sox (2nd)
3. Rays (5th)
4. Jays (3rd)
5. Orioles (4th)

AL CENTRAL

1. Tigers (1st)
2. White Sox (2nd)
3. Twins (5th)
4. Indians (3rd)
5. Royals (4th)

AL WEST

1. Angels (1st)
2. Rangers (3rd)
3. Mariners (2nd)
4. A's (4th)

NL EAST

1. Phillies (2nd)
2. Marlins (5th)
3. Braves (3rd)
4. Mets (1st)
5. Nationals (5th)

NL CENTRAL

1. Cubs (1st)
2. Cardinals (3rd)
3. Astros (2nd)
4. Reds (4th)
5. Pirates (5th)

NL WEST

1. Dodgers (1st)
2. Giants (2nd)
3. Rockies (3rd)
4. Diamondbacks (4th)
5. Padres (5th)

They also just had a segment about this on Baseball Tonight. I guess I'm just making shit up, be it that their experts think it's a concern as well. If it's the fault of the owners, then MLB should do something about it. They also said 7 out of the top 8 largest payrolls in MLB right now would be playoffs teams (less the Mets). Good enough stats for me. I grew up loving baseball, but I'm slowly starting to not care. I also don't care about what teams did in the 90's either. Who cares if Toronto won a WS in the 90s? That was before this MASSIVE spending began in baseball. Who wants to bet me a thousand dollars that they won't win one for 20 years? Or any of those other terrible teams?

 

[chalmers]

Moral of the story above to me is...be one of the lower spending teams in the league that runs their teams well (Rays,Twins, A's sometimes, Marlins), and you get to compete for third place in your division! Or hit some anomaly WS's (Rays, Rockies). Every #1 spending team less the Mets is leading the division, and the lowest or second to lowest is in last.

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: destrekor

Originally posted by: venkman

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
here's my theory:

what kind of sport let's you play 162 games in a year? clearly, it can't be that physically taxing if you're doing that. shit, football gets 16 games in one season.

fixed

eh.... no single player plays that many games.
Besides, it may be less physically demanding, but it ain't physically easy. It's actually more physically challenging than some sports, it's just not as physically demanding.

no one plays 162 games? Tell that to Cal Ripkin Jr

 

[fustercluck]

Baseball sucks, and they play wayyyyyyyyy too many games every year. Come to think of it, how many MLB games are there in a year? They need to reduce their ticket prices to like $5, most of the stadiums are mostly empty.

NFL is definitely the national past time. And football starts up soon! WOOO can't wait

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: fustercluck
Baseball sucks, and they play wayyyyyyyyy too many games every year. Come to think of it, how many MLB games are there in a year? They need to reduce their ticket prices to like $5, most of the stadiums are mostly empty.

NFL is definitely the national past time. And football starts up soon! WOOO can't wait

Football is the most popular sport in the country, not the national past time. There is a difference.

 

[ric1287]

Originally posted by: soulcougher73

Originally posted by: ric1287

Originally posted by: soulcougher73
They need team & player salary caps to make Baseball more entertaining for the smaller market cities if they want to bring baseball back into the lime light. Ive lived in KC for the past 12 years and i enjoy going to the games, but im still a Red Sox fan at heart. One thing nice about small market teams is its cheap to go to a game. Cheap seats at Royals are like $8.

Not at all. There's nothing MLB can do about having shitty GM's and other business personnel. The only reason KC sucks balls is because they continually make horrific moves, not because they don't have a 100 mil payroll. Again, see the Rays/Marlins as an example.

So 2 small market teams that beat the odds make it ok? KC cant hold onto anyone because they don't have the payroll the big teams have plain and simple. Hence team & player caps being a good idea. Maybe a player would play for a team he actually likes instead of following the money trail.

Wrong again. KC can't hold on to anyone because they have some of the worst management in baseball. They waste what little money they have/had on horrific contracts and they are crippled by them for years.

Marlins/Rays on the other hand, awesome management, draft well, smart trades and signings, rarely waste any of their resources. Its not about money, its about smart management.

 

[TallBill]

Originally posted by: chalmers
Some of the people in this thread are rude. Anyway, I did some analysis of this year..too lazy to do it for any other years.

Current team standings with their payroll ranking compared to their division counterparts in parentheses. <snip>

Correlation doesn't prove causation 🙂

Of course the better teams have higher payrolls, they have better players which demand higher salaries. Trends will shift with time and owners will spend more or less than before for whatever reason.

 

[lyssword]

Originally posted by: fustercluck
Baseball sucks, and they play wayyyyyyyyy too many games every year. Come to think of it, how many MLB games are there in a year? They need to reduce their ticket prices to like $5, most of the stadiums are mostly empty.

NFL is definitely the national past time. And football starts up soon! WOOO can't wait

Seattle mariners sell tickets for as low as $5.

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: lyssword

Originally posted by: fustercluck
Baseball sucks, and they play wayyyyyyyyy too many games every year. Come to think of it, how many MLB games are there in a year? They need to reduce their ticket prices to like $5, most of the stadiums are mostly empty.

NFL is definitely the national past time. And football starts up soon! WOOO can't wait

Seattle mariners sell tickets for as low as $5.

Hell, when the Tigers were really sucky, they would literally give tickets away and people still wouldn't go.

 

[cheezy321]

Originally posted by: venkman

Originally posted by: lyssword

Originally posted by: fustercluck
Baseball sucks, and they play wayyyyyyyyy too many games every year. Come to think of it, how many MLB games are there in a year? They need to reduce their ticket prices to like $5, most of the stadiums are mostly empty.

NFL is definitely the national past time. And football starts up soon! WOOO can't wait

Seattle mariners sell tickets for as low as $5.

Hell, when the Tigers were really sucky, they would literally give tickets away and people still wouldn't go.

And what is the reason for that? Oh yeah, the OP explained it all in the subject line.

 

[venkman]

Originally posted by: cheezy321

Originally posted by: venkman

Originally posted by: lyssword

Originally posted by: fustercluck
Baseball sucks, and they play wayyyyyyyyy too many games every year. Come to think of it, how many MLB games are there in a year? They need to reduce their ticket prices to like $5, most of the stadiums are mostly empty.

NFL is definitely the national past time. And football starts up soon! WOOO can't wait

Seattle mariners sell tickets for as low as $5.

Hell, when the Tigers were really sucky, they would literally give tickets away and people still wouldn't go.

And what is the reason for that? Oh yeah, the OP explained it all in the subject line.

3 years after that season, they were in the World Series.