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Between the moving of the Expo's (was hoping to boo a "juiced-up" Barry) and now this crap with the NHL there will be no major league sporting events for me to attend in Montreal. I suppose I could go to the F1 race or maybe a CFL game but neither appeal to me. The only that could be worse is if there were no more "hobbying". I hope this is only a dream and i'll wake up soon..

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Personally, i don't want a salary cap. I cheer for a team which is way up there in team payroll, and they're making millions of $$ of profits each year. Why would i want a cap? If they can afford to buy and pay for the best players, then they should. If they don't do this, the money will wind up in the owner's pockets anyway. It will be a cold day in hell if the price of tickets ever goes down.

At the end of the regular season, when each team is trying to boost themselves up for the upcoming playoff run, the trading day deadline is one of the most exciting annual events in a hockey season. With a salary cap, it won't be the same. Also, if a team's highest paid player gets injured early in the season (or later), there will be no way to replace him with a player of his calibre if this player's injury is very serious. To be able to replace him, a team would have to go over the cap, which wouldn't be permissible under the new rules. The possibility of serious injury in a contact sport such as hockey is very possible. This isn't basketball or baseball, after all....and games are played on every second or third day, over an 8-9 month period....not every weekend (over a 4-5 month period such as in the NFL).

A cap won't solve anything in cities such as Miami, Raleigh, Atlanta, etc. They are just not hockey hotbeds, period. A salary cap won't attract more fans to those areas. It's the league's fault that they didn't establish teams in potential hockey markets such as Seattle, Milwaukee, etc. They took the money instead of making the logical choices. The owners want a salary in order to police themselves, period. They are like a bunch of spoiled children that have no control over themselves.
 
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Communism

Salary caps are nothing more than a form of communism. Let's face facts, professional sports leagues are businesses. If one team conducts their business better than another why should they have to pay for the other business's laziness? Everyone seems to think that a salary cap should be implemented in baseball to save the small market teams, but the fact of the matter is that small market teams in some instances are greedier with their profits than the large market teams. George Steinbrenner, the greatest owner in the history of professional sports, takes his incredible profits and puts them back into his team in player salaries, scouting budgets, etc. Owners of other teams don't give a shit about winning, and put their profits into their slimy, greedy pockets rather than back into the team. And you think the Yankees should have to pay these slimeballs beyond what they already do in a luxury tax? Paying losers who enjoy losing and simply want to get out of dodge with as much cleared profit as possible? That's what I call bullshit! It's Bolshevism applied to sports.

In the case of hockey, as I understand it many of these teams in markets that are not traditional hotbeds for hockey, like Atlanta and Columbus, are losing money. The players are being asked to share in the losses. The players have been unwilling to do that which is wrong. On the other hand if all of these teams were making money should there be a salary cap? Of course not. The players should be able to share in the wealth. But during bad times they must share in the losses and to not recognize these economic realities is very foolish. The NHL has behaved very foolishly in the last 10 years with the expansion they undertook and now they are paying the price. Also, it looks like ESPN is pulling the plug on them which could very well be the death of that league. We may see a new hockey league emerge, with only the real hockey cities.
 
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regnaD,

That is a grossly oversimplied analysis as we both know. Why don't we look at the number of games won by the Yankees over that span of time vs. the number of games won by those other teams instead of boiling it down to the postseason where anything can happen. The fact is the Yankees are by far the winningest team over that stretch. Baseball is played over a 162 game season.
 

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The NFL never 'imposed' a cap on its players. It was mutually negotiated, as opposed to what the NHL is trying to do. The NFL players had as much to gain as to lose considering the astronomical television deals that the NFL possesses, plus other various types of revenue sharing. The same cannot be said of the NHL. There is nothing comparable (as to the NFL) to gain on the part of the players. The tv deal is a joke. The owners cannot be trusted (and this has been proven many times in the past) with the numbers, etc. Comparing the NFL to the NHL is like comparing apples to oranges. As for the NHL's situation in less hockey-friendly markets, well....it's the owners and the league that put those teams there in the first place. As i said, any cap (even one at $10 million) won't bring more people into these arenas. They are just not interested in hockey, period. It's a calamity that teams should have been removed from cities such as Winnipeg and Hartford and put into place in the Arizona desert and in NASCAR country.
 

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Scouting budgets????Scouting budgets???? Then why hasn't this team developed a major league player since Jorge Posada?

regnaD,

This comment suggests to me that you don't know or realize that a large portion of the scouting budget is for scouting done at the major league level. In other words, the Yankees have an armada of advance scouts looking at major league teams in the series before the Yankees play them - far more than other teams do. In case you didn't know, this is one of the reason why the Yankees won the World Series in 2000 and should have in 2001 despite not having the best team. In 2000, the Mets' Timo Perez was made to look like the second coming of Roberto Clemente by teams who did not have very good scouting reports. In the World Series against the Yankees, Timo Perez disappeared.
 
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