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Bill Kexel

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DBacks in 4?

I love the Cubs, but the DBacks are my team.

I have a feelin' that this might might be the Rockies year.
 
Amen, Go DBacks! (I am a die hard White Sox Fan!) I never cheered on Arizona B4 but I am tonight!
 
i'm an Indians fan!!!! go tribe

sadly, though, baseball is not even close to the sport it once was.....we have teams spending 190 million playing teams spending 24 million.

If you took 2 high school coaches and made them major league managers, and gave one 190 million to spend...and the other 24, who do you think will be more successful?

While the indians could have a good year or 2 with the players they have now, any good players will quickly go to teams like New york and boston. The revenue that cable tv has brought in to those large market teams have simply made it impossible to compete with.

Even the cleveland- new york series....you have a team spending 190 million vs a team spending 61. I will rooting for the tribe and was lucky enough to get tickets, but i don't go to nearly as many games as I used to.
 
Scott Hanna said:
i'm an Indians fan!!!! go tribe

sadly, though, baseball is not even close to the sport it once was.....we have teams spending 190 million playing teams spending 24 million.

If you took 2 high school coaches and made them major league managers, and gave one 190 million to spend...and the other 24, who do you think will be more successful?

While the indians could have a good year or 2 with the players they have now, any good players will quickly go to teams like New york and boston. The revenue that cable tv has brought in to those large market teams have simply made it impossible to compete with.

Even the cleveland- new york series....you have a team spending 190 million vs a team spending 61. I will rooting for the tribe and was lucky enough to get tickets, but i don't go to nearly as many games as I used to.
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Wasn't St. Louis the world champs last year? I doubt they have the money or the cable revenues that Cleveland/Cincinatti has.

BTW...I'll be at tonight's game.
 
2007
Team Total payroll
New York Yankees $ 189,639,045
Boston Red Sox $ 143,026,214
New York Mets $ 115,231,663
Los Angeles Angels $ 109,251,333
Chicago White Sox $ 108,671,833
Los Angeles Dodgers $ 108,454,524
Seattle Mariners $ 106,460,833
Chicago Cubs $ 99,670,332
Detroit Tigers $ 95,180,369
Baltimore Orioles $ 93,554,808
St. Louis Cardinals $ 90,286,823
San Francisco Giants $ 90,219,056
Philadelphia Phillies $ 89,428,213
Houston Astros $ 87,759,000
Atlanta Braves $ 87,290,833
Toronto Blue Jays $ 81,942,800
Oakland Athletics $ 79,366,940
Minnesota Twins $ 71,439,500
Milwaukee Brewers $ 70,986,500
Cincinnati Reds $ 68,904,980
Texas Rangers $ 68,318,675
Kansas City Royals $ 67,116,500
Cleveland Indians $ 61,673,267
San Diego Padres $ 58,110,567
Colorado Rockies $ 54,424,000
Arizona Diamondbacks $ 52,067,546
Pittsburgh Pirates $ 38,537,833
Washington Nationals $ 37,347,500
Florida Marlins $ 30,507,000
Tampa Bay Devil Rays $ 24,123,500


yes st louis won it last year....and then right back in the middle of the pack this year.
but boston and new york are there every year just about. Colorado and Arizona as well as Cleveland had good years this year with relatively small payrolls....but those teams will be impossible to maintain unless the payroll goes way up because the larger market teams can afford to have bench players making what top players on other teams are making.

Alex Rodriguez makes more that the WHOLE tampa bay team....
 
thats why I like to see the underdogs shock the favorite teams like the New York Rangers and Islanders when they buy the dream team much like the Yanks and fail to make the playoffs. I dont watch much of either including most of the other paid sport professions its controlled by the dollar. This coming from a very avid sports nut who would watch every game on saturday MLB and every game Sunday in the NFL. I suppose I will tune into Spike for the MMA events available.
 
Bill Kexel said:
Boy, I guess it is true, Cubs fans & White Sox fans are arch enemies?
Even though it's a Chicago team, you still don't root for them?
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Here in the Windy City, or slightly south of it in my case, we have a saying: "Baseball Devides us, but Football Unites us!"... round these parts your a Sox fan (South sider, as the Sox are South of the City) or a Cub's fan (North Sider same applies as they are North of the City). North siders tend to be a little more "High Brow" and "Snooty Richy-Rich" types that thumb their collective noses at the South Side of Chicago. So the South siders who are typically working class Joe's, hate them, and their team... the Cub's. There is no leeway or middle ground on this issue for a true Chicago Baseball fan. Their are many posers on each side who blow with the prevailing wind, but no, I hope the Cub's crash and burn in the playoffs, which is an inevitability.

Everyone in these parts do however root for the Bear's religiously. Until an expansion team pop's up in the region for someone to hate, all we have is Greenbay, and Indianapolis for now!!!

Go Dbacks! 2 more to win!
 
The 3 teams in red below are at the bottom of the payroll,.....yet they made it into the playoffs & look to move on.

The Cubs are choking on goatmeat again.
Dbacks are on a roll, but they gotta get past Colorado. That might be tough.

2007 Team Total payroll
New York Yankees $ 189,639,045
Boston Red Sox $ 143,026,214
New York Mets $ 115,231,663
Los Angeles Angels $ 109,251,333
Chicago White Sox $ 108,671,833
Los Angeles Dodgers $ 108,454,524
Seattle Mariners $ 106,460,833
Chicago Cubs $ 99,670,332
Detroit Tigers $ 95,180,369
Baltimore Orioles $ 93,554,808
St. Louis Cardinals $ 90,286,823
San Francisco Giants $ 90,219,056
Philadelphia Phillies $ 89,428,213
Houston Astros $ 87,759,000
Atlanta Braves $ 87,290,833
Toronto Blue Jays $ 81,942,800
Oakland Athletics $ 79,366,940
Minnesota Twins $ 71,439,500
Milwaukee Brewers $ 70,986,500
Cincinnati Reds $ 68,904,980
Texas Rangers $ 68,318,675
Kansas City Royals $ 67,116,500
Cleveland Indians $ 61,673,267
San Diego Padres $ 58,110,567
Colorado Rockies $ 54,424,000
Arizona Diamondbacks $ 52,067,546
Pittsburgh Pirates $ 38,537,833
Washington Nationals $ 37,347,500
Florida Marlins $ 30,507,000
Tampa Bay Devil Rays $ 24,123,500
 
There's no joy in Chicago this weekend. Except for White Sox fans, I'm sure their giddy!
Cubs fans are hoping for the 100th anniversary of their last WS... in 2008.

It's now Rockies Vs. DBacks
Also, I'm rooting for the Indians to knock out the Yankees.
I'm hoping for a Cleveland vs. Arizona world series


GO DIAMONDBACKS IN '07!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Bill Kexel said:
The 3 teams in red below are at the bottom of the payroll,.....yet they made it into the playoffs & look to move on.

The Cubs are choking on goatmeat again.
Dbacks are on a roll, but they gotta get past Colorado. That might be tough.

2007 Team Total payroll
New York Yankees $ 189,639,045
Boston Red Sox $ 143,026,214
New York Mets $ 115,231,663
Los Angeles Angels $ 109,251,333
Chicago White Sox $ 108,671,833
Los Angeles Dodgers $ 108,454,524
Seattle Mariners $ 106,460,833
Chicago Cubs $ 99,670,332
Detroit Tigers $ 95,180,369
Baltimore Orioles $ 93,554,808
St. Louis Cardinals $ 90,286,823
San Francisco Giants $ 90,219,056
Philadelphia Phillies $ 89,428,213
Houston Astros $ 87,759,000
Atlanta Braves $ 87,290,833
Toronto Blue Jays $ 81,942,800
Oakland Athletics $ 79,366,940
Minnesota Twins $ 71,439,500
Milwaukee Brewers $ 70,986,500
Cincinnati Reds $ 68,904,980
Texas Rangers $ 68,318,675
Kansas City Royals $ 67,116,500
Cleveland Indians $ 61,673,267
San Diego Padres $ 58,110,567
Colorado Rockies $ 54,424,000
Arizona Diamondbacks $ 52,067,546
Pittsburgh Pirates $ 38,537,833
Washington Nationals $ 37,347,500
Florida Marlins $ 30,507,000
Tampa Bay Devil Rays $ 24,123,500
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Bill, you forget to mention that the Padres were 2 outs from making the playoffs, and the Brewers were in it up to the last week of the season.

Baseball is the only sport where can not "buy" a title.
 
Interesting statements by the sox fans.

While I admit I didn't heavily root for the sox when they won the series (not a fake bandwagon fan), I didn't hope that the Sox "choked and burned".

I will also admit to being honest. They way the Cubs played out the gate in this series, they didn't deserve to win. They lost the series.

Many will say the D-backs pitching dominated. I disagree as the Cubs had plenty of hits and plenty of runners in scoring position. The Cubs just left them there. Terrible hitting when it counted.

That is why I didn't expect them to win the World series. You can't go in and win depending on only the long ball. With runners on base you could see the batters were swinging for the fence to be the "hero" as opposed to getting runs little by little. D-backs did that... well.

BTW: I think the two best teams will be going at it now. D-backs and Colorado. Should be a good series.
 
There's no happiness in NY tonight.
That $ 189,639,045 payroll couldn't get the Yankees to the AL championship.
Go Indians!

I'm still hoping for a Cleveland vs. Arizona world series
 
funny to hear someone say baseball is the only sport not able to buy a title. As I mentioned yr after yr the NY Rangers buy the best and still miss a six out of 8 team division to make the playoffs. Basketball NBA style has the money pits as well For several yrs back in the early 90's the Cowboys and 49ers bought the best teams and ate away at future drafgt picks to get the best players now.
 
Jon Tuck said:
funny to hear someone say baseball is the only sport not able to buy a title. As I mentioned yr after yr the NY Rangers buy the best and still miss a six out of 8 team division to make the playoffs. Basketball NBA style has the money pits as well For several yrs back in the early 90's the Cowboys and 49ers bought the best teams and ate away at future drafgt picks to get the best players now.
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Think about it one time Jon.

Hockey, yes, the rangers threw a ton of money into their team and did not win. But when you look at the teams who did win in those years, you can certainly make the case for them being bought. The Avalanche had one of the highest payrolls when they went on their run into the playoffs, same with the Stars. You rarely see a small market, low payroll team make any strides in the NHL.

Basketball is the same way. The Lakers with Shaq and Kobe (at the time, the two best players in the league) went on a roll in the late 90's / early 2000's with the highest payroll in the league. The Spurs are in the top tier of payroll, as were Detroit when they were winning.

Hockey is the only sport that has the right approach to salaries, by putting in place a both a salary cap and a salary floor (something baseball sorely needs). You combine these two elements with the 1/8th rule (no one players salary can exceed more than 1/8th of the entire team payroll) and it complete levels out the playing field, giving every franchise a chance to put a competitive team out.
 
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