I think Halladay has a good shot at 300 though those years when he got injured hurts his chances. Tim Lincecum could be the guy to reach it, but by then I’ll be too old to care.
Yes that is true, but the Clippers and the Lions are always dead last. At least the Pirates can get close to .500. if not at least they have the National to take the spot of worst loser.
Congrats to Randy…
Dude M’s had Griff, A-rod, Randy, Moyer, Edgar and a shit load of other great players and never won a damn title. :sad:
At least the Nationals spend money. I can’t remember the last time the Pirates went out and picked up a guy like an Adam Dunn. The Pirates don’t care about winning but since they make money anyway they have no incentive to give a damn.
This is why people believe there should be a salary cap in baseball. With it comes a salary floor or a minimum that teams would have to spend for players.
Just another team with a state of the art, corporately sponsored stadium that doesn’t give a shit about winning. :tdown:
Reminds me of my own favorite team…:bluu:
I just got Adam Lind’s autograph at the Eaton Centre today…he seemed incredibly mundane. He is literally just a dude. Looks exactly the same as he does on television, there’s absolutely nothing remarkable about meeting him in person.
I’m going to sell this signed baseball for like a billion bucks on eBay and buy my own team opposite the Jays. I’m bringing baseball back to Montreal!
Why would you think that a maximum payroll limit would bring a minimum payroll limit with it? If you cut the spending of the biggest payroll teams, wouldn’t the smaller payroll teams have even less incentive to spend more to compete? The NBA, NFL, and NHL don’t have minimum salary floors.
Thing is too, there’s such a huge gap between the top spending teams (ie. the Yankees at like $210-220 million) and the cheapest teams (i.e Flordia at like $40 million or whatever). And if the average payroll is at like $75-80 million, where do you set the cap? There’s a soft cap now, but it’s like at what…? $200 million or something? Doesn’t it only hit the Yankees? What’s the point of making it so high then?
It’s hard to ever see a cap being introduced into baseball, or even a (realistic) luxury soft cap system. When fluke teams like the Rays or the Marlins manage to succeed with limited budgets, owners just point to those teams and just say “well if they can do it, anyone can” and continue to ignore the huge disparity between the average salaries of teams that make the playoffs and the ones that don’t.
If they fixed the draft and forced players to sign at slot then it wouldn’t be as bad, but now you have random Cuban 19 year-olds holding teams like Pittsburg hostage for like $6 million signing bonuses…it’s dumb. System doesn’t work, and it’s sad that no one cares as long as the big market teams are doing okay with their $200 million teams.
Leagues have minimum limits that go up for each year a player is in the league. Teams have to pay players at least that much based on what year they’re in. NFL teams have to pay rookies at least $260,000 for their first year. MLB teams have to play rookies at least $400,000 I believe.
You’re talking about minimum salaries for individual players. All sports have that.
We are talking (at least I think we are) about minimum team payrolls that teams would have to spend for players.
Who is Adam Lund? What is an Eaton Center?
Why are you getting the autograph of a grown man? YOU GROWN NIGGA.
Well, technically, if an NFL team had nothing but 53 rookies on the squad, $260,000 times 53 would be just that unless they set an absolute value higher.
Were you expecting him to get a bat out of nowhere and hit a dinger in the mall? 
Right after Alex Rios strikes out in the mall.
Okay yes, mathematically it is technically true that there is a minimum salary limit. Good stuff.
I know! Fuck, I was thinking the same thing the whole time too, I’m so fucking gay.
I went with one of my friends who really wanted to go even though she is a girl and I have no idea why a girl would want the autograph of a baseball player…but yes, I’m standing in line and I’m wondering “What the fuck am I going to do with the signature of another man?” I see this guy’s ugly face in HD whenever I want, what’s the thrill of seeing him in real life?
I still have no answer. I’m just sitting here looking at this ball with a scribble on it sitting on my desk…the fuck am I going to do with this? Frame it? Give it to a child? I AM A GROWN MAN what am I doing with nonsense like this?
But there was this moment where I was like…there’s no security guards around…I can attack Adam Lind. And then maybe if I manage to sucker punch him or something I can take him out , and run away before these mall security guys get me. And then I would have directly and significantly affected the outcome of a major league baseball game (though I don’t think there’s much of a chance of us winning a Grienke vs. Romero match up anyway).
I cannot have been the only guy in line thinking about attacking Adam Lind, I’m sure there had to be more guys thinking the same thing.
Why, would this be wrong?
If I didn’t watch as much baseball as I do, and I saw Adam Lind on the street, I’d just dismiss him as another regular douchey looking white guy. Basketball players…obviously you’d recognize, even the point guards are like giants compared to regular human beings and they are all ridiculous athletes at the peak of human conditioning.
(Except for like Derrick Martin, who I would have mistaken for a postman or something if I saw him on the street.)
Baseball players…are just normal guys that happen to be able to hit round baseballs with round bats really well.
It’s okay man. I still think you are gay regardless.
Now you have a forever memory of the time you met some baseball player who I have no idea is.
You should have gotten him to sign something weird. Like somethingyou use at work. I know you work at a bank, at like a computer all day probably. You should have gotten him to sign your mouse. Or a stapler.
Then Adam Lund would be a part of your everyday life.
I was next to the greeting cards section of the mall, and I really wanted to pick up a birthday card or something and have him sign that instead. And then I saw some I’M SORRY cards and I was like “Aw, too bad Rios or Wells aren’t here.”
I think I’m getting old - I’ve lost my nerve. Like as recently as a year ago, I would have had absolutely no problem or hesitation in doing that. I don’t know what’s happened to me. I’m mellowing out.
Then you can tank about 5 seasons in a row, and then totally sell out the franchise to some random-ass town that wants some baseball, like…I dunno, Boise, Idaho? :wonder:
Then the fans will totally hate you for it and egg your house.
Then you could just run away to Florida and share an apartment with Steve Bartman.
It will be BRILLIANCE!
Nooooooooo Ichiro. : (
Damn, she would still get it ugly style, but why does she wear so much makeup???
The thing I admire the most about Ichro is that he doesn’t seem to give a fuck about anyone at all, especially any of his ‘fat american fans’. I love it.
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I love Avril, this was fantastic to me.
I dare you, I DOUBLE DARE YOU, tell me this song isn’t hot fire.
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