MLB, can of worms, salary cap, dead horse

Mr. Nutting has never met some of the dim-bulbs on this board.

 

No bigger moron than a douchebag on a soapbox with an empty pistol in his hand.

 

I'm not in favor of a salary cap, but if they would go down this road, they would also need to have a salary floor to make sure teams don't do what the Marlins do every four or five years. No $9 million payrolls, please.

 

obviously

 

I hate the Yankees, but this bitching is ridiculous.
They did cut payroll this year.

 

Shh, Rhody. Don't tell anyone that the Yankees payroll is going to be LOWER this year.
You'll ruin the whole damn thread.

 

Salary floor is not beneficial in a player development sport like baseball. It forces teams to overspend for horseshit players who won't help them win anyway.

 

Very debatable, but, say you were correct, that price simply must be paid.

 

I'd prefer a cap on tickets prices and concessions set at about half the current rate.

 

Even without the floor, baseball teams have been finding ways to overspend for horseshit and/or unproven talent since the days of the bonus baby.

 

I've met Nutting, and the bulk of his immediate family.

They're clearly enjoying suckling at MLB's breast, riding along, awaiting the eventual
capital-gains payoff.

Anybody who pays Yankee dollars to enter that ball park and watch the charade these clowns put on deserves everything they get.

 

How is it very debatable? Let's say you're the Reds and you have a nice collection of young talent, almost all of whom have less than three years of service time. That's your core. They're under club control, so they're probably all making less than a $500K.

You know you're going to scuffle, maybe threaten .500 this year, but you have a chance to be kick-ass good next year or the year after.

But you're not meeting the salary floor, so you have to go out and burn money on some FA who's not going to do shit, or else you have to trade for someone else's mistake, just for the sake of meeting the minimum. What is the point? Does throwing $3 million at Kip Wells show the fans you're committed to winning?

Why piss away money on Kris Benson or Sidney Ponson or trade for Jose Guillen? Keep the money to sign the younger players as they rise on the salary scale rather than paying some useless turd to sit on the DL for three-fourths of the season.