Actually, there's a Rickey Henderson reference in my fresh post in the Oase thread.
The Official MERB Baseball Offseason Thread (trades, signings, NO fucktard comments!)
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Jesus H. Christ, Beav. If you really believe this horseshit, you're dumber than I thought. If you don't see the difference between giving a 25 year old a stupid $250 million contract and giving a 31 year old a $275 million contract, I have a bridge in which you might be interested.
On the one hand, you have a moronic 10 year contract given to a player just entering his prime; on the other, you have a moronic 10 year contract for 10% more to a player just entering the decline phase of his career.
Suggesting that A-Rod gave the Yankees a "hometown discount" is perhaps the dumbest thing ever posted on this board that wasn't headed "Joe.T" or "lgna69xxx." Congratulations.
Now excuse me, I gotta go get laid.
and here i thought you were ignoring me.....
...you just warmed the cockles of my heart Rumpie Poo Poo.. i am gonna start a competitve game of "lets see who can move into 2nd place behind the plumber on rumples best friend list" ...... JoeT, game on!!!!!! (can i bribe second place from you if i produce Ms. Nikova for you) ....... sorry KMAN, everyone else gets to make Ftard remarks so theres mine for the week.... at least i dont make them daily like some
...you just warmed the cockles of my heart Rumpie Poo Poo.. i am gonna start a competitve game of "lets see who can move into 2nd place behind the plumber on rumples best friend list" ...... JoeT, game on!!!!!! (can i bribe second place from you if i produce Ms. Nikova for you) ....... sorry KMAN, everyone else gets to make Ftard remarks so theres mine for the week.... at least i dont make them daily like some 
Leave Beav out of this Iggy, he doesn't even realize he's making Fucktard comments when he does.
and here i thought you were ignoring me.....
Second place is all yours my friend along with the paid threesome
, all you have to do is produce the lovely Anna.Heck, I'll even throw in a couple of brewski's.
for someone who suppossedly hates the Yankees,. you sure have the biggest hard on for them, and i know you might think thats a compliment, but trust me, it isnt...
ps........ i take that back, your tied with rumps for biggest hard on for the Yanks!...... i may never get past JoeT on "THE LIST"
ps........ i take that back, your tied with rumps for biggest hard on for the Yanks!
...... i may never get past JoeT on "THE LIST" Hello all,
It's nice to see not everything automatically goes to the Yankees just because they spend much more.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/10386704/Zack-Greinke-of-Royals-wins-AL-Cy-Young-Award
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/sports/baseball/19managers.html
BTW Joe.t..."Cy Sabathia"...wrong again!
Cheers boy,
Merlot
for someone who suppossedly hates the Yankees,. you sure have the biggest hard on for them, and i know you might think thats a compliment, but trust me, it isnt...
ps........ i take that back, your tied with rumps for biggest hard on for the Yanks!
I feel so left out...I thought I at least deserved honorable mention on the "Hard on for the Yankees" list...
Hello all,
Looks like the Yankees can't buy everything.
http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/10386704/Zack-Greinke-of-Royals-wins-AL-Cy-Young-Award
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/sports/baseball/19managers.html
BTW Joe.t..."Cy Sabathia"...wrong again!
Cheers boy,
Merlot
Well if they didn't buy it, it sure wasn't for lack of trying!!!
Maybe they just haven't found a HIGH enough price yet...LOL
well my friend, your still a rookie, in your first season, but if it makes you feel any better i will put you third behind Rumples and Merlot and ahead of Special K.... feel better now ya big baby
I feel so left out...I thought I at least deserved honorable mention on the "Hard on for the Yankees" list...
well my friend, your still a rookie, in your first season, but if it makes you feel any better i will put you third behind Rumples and Merlot and ahead of Special K.... feel better now ya big baby
Haha...and what would you be? LOL. You joined Merb in October 2008 just over 1 year ago, your first post was on 10/23/08 and the first time you chimed in on anything baseball related was 12/11/08, well after the season ended. Now scrub some jocks rookie!
Haha...and what would you be? LOL. You joined Merb in October 2008 just over 1 year ago, your first post was on 10/23/08 and the first time you chimed in on anything baseball related was 12/11/08, well after the season ended. Now scrub some jocks rookie!
LOL. That`s ok K ... I wasn`t gonna be pickyune and point out that he only had a few months on me...BUT...I`m glad you did...hi, hi, hi...
Haha...and what would you be? LOL. You joined Merb in October 2008 just over 1 year ago, your first post was on 10/23/08 and the first time you chimed in on anything baseball related was 12/11/08, well after the season ended. Now scrub some jocks rookie!
It`s because under his previous handle he was known as General Gonad before he got banned.
It's because under his previous handle he was known as General Gonad before he got banned.
jman47 was General Gonad, or Iggy? It occurred to me that GG was probably back here under another handle, I just did not know who it was.
Iggy.
Who would have thought that GG was a big baseball fan and further more a huge Yankee fan at that, no wonder rumples and him never got along LOL!!!
Boras-Manfred war of words an unsettling omen
What you are about to read is a nasty exchange between Scott Boras, the game's most prominent agent, and Rob Manfred, baseball's chief of labor relations.
Manfred says Boras is lying when he portrays the sport's finances in glowing terms. Boras says Manfred is biased because he works for the owners.
The real story is much deeper. And much more disturbing.
The free-agent market opens Friday, and tension is rising between representatives of the players and owners.
The players' side says that baseball is doing remarkably good business, even in a harsh national economy. The owners' side says that baseball is not immune to the economic downturn, and teams are adjusting accordingly.
Read the rest here...
http://www.comcast.net/articles/sports-mlb/20091120/Rosenthal.MLB.Boras.Revenue/
Here we go...
What you are about to read is a nasty exchange between Scott Boras, the game's most prominent agent, and Rob Manfred, baseball's chief of labor relations.
Manfred says Boras is lying when he portrays the sport's finances in glowing terms. Boras says Manfred is biased because he works for the owners.
The real story is much deeper. And much more disturbing.
The free-agent market opens Friday, and tension is rising between representatives of the players and owners.
The players' side says that baseball is doing remarkably good business, even in a harsh national economy. The owners' side says that baseball is not immune to the economic downturn, and teams are adjusting accordingly.
Read the rest here...
http://www.comcast.net/articles/sports-mlb/20091120/Rosenthal.MLB.Boras.Revenue/
Here we go...
i think i have a STALKER! and even if you dress up in a mini skirt and stuff a bra with oranges K, i am still not gonna play along, GOT IT?!?!?!??!! , my only mission in life is to be stalked by a hottie from Montreal, any hottie, but she does have to be a FEMALE! ..... (ps, i have completed my first full season of putting up with all you crybaby red sox fans, therefore i am a seasoned veteran now)
Haha...and what would you be? LOL. You joined Merb in October 2008 just over 1 year ago, your first post was on 10/23/08 and the first time you chimed in on anything baseball related was 12/11/08, well after the season ended. Now scrub some jocks rookie!
a few months? true, but a wealth of baseball knowledge... thanks to my Baseball Encyclopedia that Rumples loaned me......now i am , maybe not as cool as JoeT or the Plumber, but i will get there...
, maybe not as cool as JoeT or the Plumber, but i will get there...LOL. That's ok K ... I wasn't gonna be pickyune and point out that he only had a few months on me...BUT...I'm glad you did...hi, hi, hi...
I have to agree with Boras on this point:
"Fans have a right to know what money their team is given," Boras said. "If clubs don't want to disclose it, then don't accept the subsidy. If they do want to accept it, disclose it. Their choice."
And there is a reason why they don't want to disclose it. There was a report a few years ago that Central Baseball Fund/revenue sharing monies were being used by the owners of two teams to defer and cover losses and expenses in other businesses having nothing to do with baseball. What that means is that the Yankees are paying other teams for bumbling/stumbling in other businesses rather than putting their money back into their own team. Apart from being morally wrongful and disgusting, this creates a situation in which political communism is applied to the free enterprise business model.
If I am not mistaken that same report came from Bill Madden of the Daily News who is also mentioned in the cited article.
There absolutely should be 100% accountability by every team that receives one fucking penny of revenue sharing monies as to what they do with those monies. As I recall the earlier article speculated that while it may be in the interests of all teams to hide these disclosures (including teams like the Yankees who are the chief donors to both funds in terms of the money they create for MLB as a whole, and who stay more competitive if other teams misuse the donated funds), it is certainly not in the best interest of the fans of those teams who are misusing those monies.
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And it's also not in the best interests of baseball for one team's payroll to be more than 50% higher than the second highest spending club. Considering that this team has developed two quality major league players (Cano and Wang) and still contends every year, something is drastically wrong here.
And, yes, Beav, something is also drastically wrong when 8 teams receive more money from revenue sharing and luxury taxes.
We need two things: a salary cap and a salary floor. I'd suggest a cap of $150,000,000 and a floor of $100,000,000. The big problem with getting this instituted is Bud Selig. Baseball and Fox likes when the Yankees are in the playoffs; if they were limited to $150,000,000, they'd finish in third or fourth place every year.
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