Pujols to the Angels

[Mr Baseball World]

[quote:a686ea891d="Valen"]I would go for that nev gets 200 mil and I get 80 if I get exclusive rights to all cards until I have used them in at least 6 seasons. :lol: Plus I get to use those cards at 10% of their real value.

But if he uses one of those cards after that he has to let me name one additional card as mine and have the 6 years start over for that card. Plus once he uses a card once he has to use a card from the last 3 years of that player's career. In other words he has to sign whatever superstars he uses to 10 year contracts and then use those cards in their declining years much as yankees are having to do with Arod, Jeter, and Posada. He also has to pay 10-fold for all the cards he uses. So I get the first 6 years of Ruth at 1.3 mil while after he becomes available to Nev he has to pay 40 mil for Ruth. That is closer to the real baseball system.

Yanks did have a 200+ mil salary this year and last while Rangers operated closer to that 80 mil range. Which team was in the world series, team who spent the most or team that had the better run organization?[/quote:a686ea891d]

The Yankees don't get to participate in the draft? Apparently neither does any other team as you seem to think the Rangers have exclusive rights to every player for 6 years. The Yankess pay 10 fold for their players? really? The Yankees give 10 year deals to all their players?

[ADRIANGABRIEL]

[quote:622fba61a6="chasenally"]I am sorry if I offened anyone as THAT WAS NOT MY INTENT.[/quote:622fba61a6]
I am offended that you didn't mean to offend. :evil:

[PotKettleBlack]

I forgot about this. Mrs. Pujols reminded me.

My Father In Law, recently deceased, a life long Cardinal fan, turned on Albert last summer. It has to do with the radio station KJOY-FM that Albert helped set up (the one with the interview of his wife that I posted). It used to be the last classical music station in St. Louis, and Albert and his church felt that St. Louis needed more religious broadcasting (I think there are at least five other Christian broadcast stations in and around the Lou), so they bought it in what I believe was a hostile takeover. Burned the hell outta my father in law. So much that he and my MIL dumped Pujols. Softened the blow of him leaving.

[thetallguy747]

Ditto with my in-laws. It was the only station they listened to until Pujols turned it from classical to evangelical.

Kevin A

[ADRIANGABRIEL]

Watch your classical music stations, SoCal!

[visick]

There's Jack FM, Classic rock, Oldies and newer stuff.
The rest is spanish radio where every song sounds the same.

So maybe ALbert will go spanish/evangelic?


visick

[Valen]

[quote:3f094ef571] It is a win win win for all.
[/quote:3f094ef571]Very true.

[Valen]

[quote:20273e89b0]I can't believe any sports star would put thier kids in public school as the security is not as good as a highly priced private school. You have to worry about your kid being harmed and taken for ransom as you have the money to pay out.
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A factor I never gave any thought to but very valid. I am assuming the quality of any private school roughly corresponds to how expensive it is. And this argument would appear to eliminate any discussion about the quality of public schools as being relevant to a choice on where to play.

[macnole]

coyote--sorry but it appears the objective part was lost.
What you referenced vs what I addressed are unrelated mathematically.
Bad analogy on the wind. Not sure what you mean by that. Everything I posted was objective, not opinion.

An average (as in average salary) is not a valid statistical metric when the distribution of those salaries is not Gaussian (i.e., the salaries of all teams in discrete bins).

Why wouldnt more money mean "more wins" in "general"? If they hired people out of college, or the bottom tier of the professional ranks, why would one expect them to win? Or better yet, to be "entitled" to win? Nonsense. That's not competition. That's rationing.

No matter--teams, with revenue by their supporting element--fans-- can spend what they want--as it should be (now that's an opinion ). Some are just better managed (better managed=spend more on their investment)

[Valen]

Better managed could mean money spent. Or it could be doing a better job of generating revenue (negotiating tv deals, etc) or it could be getting more bang for your buck as in what Tampa Bay is doing. But certainly if a team does a superior job of generating revenue they free market should always mean they have the choice of spending that revenue on players. Or for that matter choosing not to spend it. That is pretty much the owner's choice.

Here is a nice article on how Tampa is able to be competitive even though they are in same division as yankees/sox.



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