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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: DJ SUGAFREE QUIK on December 08, 2011, 07:21:52 AM
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YEAH I SAID IT! ANAHEIM! Nobody, even people in the O.C. calls the Angels L.A. But to the main topic, Albert Pujols leaves the world champion St. Louis Cardinals to join the Angels. Well at least he didn't completely go from the penthouse to the outhouse if he joined the Marlins. I wonder how redbird nation feels about this. And the person who had enough with the Angels cause they didn't try hard enuff to resign Mark Texieria. Cause it seemed like that the angels didn't wanna spend to win. Well Arte Moreno sure is spending now 10 years, 250 million. Hopefully his career in Anaheim isn't like Mo Vaughn's tenure was there :(
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/story/_/id/7330066/sources-albert-pujols-takes-10-year-deal-los-angeles-angels
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It was the first time in Pujols' career his OBP was under .394 (.366) and the first time ever SLG was under .550 (.541). I can see value in the first 3 years of the contract for sure, maybe 4 and 5 but after that it will become a burden.
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Congrats to my new least favorite player, fuck the Angels and fuck Pujols
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Stupid move by Albert. He must of been afriad the Marlins were going to to fall apart.
But he was better off staying. St. Louis just won the World Series without Adam Wainwright lol.
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Didn't know the Angels had $254 million to spend.
And they spend another $77.5 mil on Wilson? SMH.
I would've rather had Pujols go to the Marlins or stay in St. Louis (or go to Philly lol)...
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baseball really needs a salary cap, because it is unfair to small market teams like the Kansas City Royals.
The Angels wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy overpaid for Pujos. The guy had a down year last year and he is only getting older. Yet they sign him for 10 years!!!! But since there is no salary cap in baseball I guess it is normal to overspend for big market teams. Therefore I can't tell the owner of the Angels he was wrong, because if he doesn't mind spending the money, then it will only help there team. And maybe they will even win a championship. But there's no way Pujos in his 30's is worth this kind of money!!!
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^I don't see why. The Yankees, Mets, Redsox & Dodgers have the biggest payrolls & they always find a way to lose. Three of those teams didn't even make the playoffs last year. Texas is small market. The Giants are small market without a hitter in their lineup. You small market teams just have to start spending.
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Big payroll don't always mean success in baseball, a sport where 30% means you are a great hitter proves that. Fat Albert made a great choice in the Al his last 5 years can be striccly dh, he wouldn't have that luxury in the nl. Yell
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You small market teams just have to start spending.
Personally I like how small market teams don't/can't offer much. It makes the players hungrier and work harder. Look at how Mauer signed a $184 million contract and became Mr. No-Show. I'm pretty sure Kemp and Pujols will go down the same road eventually. Plus Ichiro's contract ends after next year, who knows how much teams'll pay for him (if he's still productive and chooses to remain active that is)?
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You small market teams just have to start spending.
Personally I like how small market teams don't/can't offer much. It makes the players hungrier and work harder. Look at how Mauer signed a $184 million contract and became Mr. No-Show. I'm pretty sure Kemp and Pujols will go down the same road eventually. Plus Ichiro's contract ends after next year, who knows how much teams'll pay for him (if he's still productive and chooses to remain active that is)?
Baseball comes down to pitching in the end. If you get some great young pitching talent (like the Giants), you can win.
The Yankees & Redsox have the best lineups money can buy & although they've had their shares of World Series wins this last decade, small market teams have gotten & won it all.
Also, I agree with your logic. Those big contracts satisfy all the hunger a player will ever have. However, I don't see Pujols falling victim to that. If his numbers ever fall off, it'll be due to age.
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You guys are speaking of anomolies and isolated cases where a small market team outperformed a bigger market; or where a high-paid player didn't live up to his potential.
But statistically one of the radio personalities here in Kansas City broke it down. And if you just go back the numbers and look at the teams that have made the playoffs and won the world series over the past 14 years you will find undoubtedly that the large majority of those teams were from the upper third of payrolls in the league. Besides, it's just common sense.
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Baseball comes down to pitching in the end. If you get some great young pitching talent (like the Giants), you can win.
The Yankees & Redsox have the best lineups money can buy & although they've had their shares of World Series wins this last decade, small market teams have gotten & won it all.
True, that's how the Giants shut down the Rangers in '10. But a pitcher can't win if their team doesn't offer any run support, the Angels had Weaver, Santana & Haren and they still lost because who aren't named Trumbo or Hunter couldn't hit. If you needed a young and good pitching staff to go to the top the Yankees, Red Sox and Rangers would've failed countless times...
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To be fair, not many sports the world over have salary caps like NFL or NBA do, Baseball is doing no different to any other sport. In every sport there will always be bigger teams who offer bigger money. It doesn't make it uncompetitive.
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To be fair, not many sports the world over have salary caps like NFL or NBA do, Baseball is doing no different to any other sport. In every sport there will always be bigger teams who offer bigger money. It doesn't make it uncompetitive.
Whatever makes you guys feel better, stay in denial that it's not an unfair advantage. But the statistics don't lie. Just look at the playoff teams of the last 15 years
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To be fair, not many sports the world over have salary caps like NFL or NBA do, Baseball is doing no different to any other sport. In every sport there will always be bigger teams who offer bigger money. It doesn't make it uncompetitive.
Whatever makes you guys feel better, stay in denial that it's not an unfair advantage. But the statistics don't lie. Just look at the playoff teams of the last 15 years
Yeah, statistics don't lie, dumbass. Spend some money. http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm
You spend $5,805,771 less than the Rays who spend the second least in the league. But regardless, they've managed to win the division in 2008 & 2010 over the Yankees & Redsox, the two top spending teams in baseball & made it to a WS. Stop bitching & make moves.
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To be fair, not many sports the world over have salary caps like NFL or NBA do, Baseball is doing no different to any other sport. In every sport there will always be bigger teams who offer bigger money. It doesn't make it uncompetitive.
Whatever makes you guys feel better, stay in denial that it's not an unfair advantage. But the statistics don't lie. Just look at the playoff teams of the last 15 years
Yeah, statistics don't lie, dumbass. Spend some money. http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm
You spend $5,805,771 less than the Rays who spend the second least in the league. But regardless, they've managed to win the division in 2008 & 2010 over the Yankees & Redsox, the two top spending teams in baseball & made it to a WS. Stop bitching & make moves.
The Rays? Again, that's an anomaly that goes against the general rule. That's like saying white rappers are just as successful as black rappers, because look at Eminem. You fail when it comes to logic.
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To be fair, not many sports the world over have salary caps like NFL or NBA do, Baseball is doing no different to any other sport. In every sport there will always be bigger teams who offer bigger money. It doesn't make it uncompetitive.
Whatever makes you guys feel better, stay in denial that it's not an unfair advantage. But the statistics don't lie. Just look at the playoff teams of the last 15 years
Yeah, statistics don't lie, dumbass. Spend some money. http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm
You spend $5,805,771 less than the Rays who spend the second least in the league. But regardless, they've managed to win the division in 2008 & 2010 over the Yankees & Redsox, the two top spending teams in baseball & made it to a WS. Stop bitching & make moves.
The Rays? Again, that's an anomaly that goes against the general rule. That's like saying white rappers are just as successful as black rappers, because look at Eminem. You fail when it comes to logic.
Nigga, please. Don't talk about logic. The last 30 NBA champions have come from big market cities & you're in here crying over having a cap. The last small market team to win that is like the 1979 Supersonics lmao. Celtics. Lakers. Bulls. I just named more than half of the last 30 NBA titles. That's an embarrassment.
The Rays are the model. Don't be stupid, keep the young talent & stop being a AAA team for the rest of the MLB. In today's economy, there is no reason a team shouldn't be spending AT LEAST 60-65 million & the Royals spend 30 million dollars less & then you have the nerve to complain about salary caps.
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To be fair, not many sports the world over have salary caps like NFL or NBA do, Baseball is doing no different to any other sport. In every sport there will always be bigger teams who offer bigger money. It doesn't make it uncompetitive.
Whatever makes you guys feel better, stay in denial that it's not an unfair advantage. But the statistics don't lie. Just look at the playoff teams of the last 15 years
Yeah, statistics don't lie, dumbass. Spend some money. http://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm
You spend $5,805,771 less than the Rays who spend the second least in the league. But regardless, they've managed to win the division in 2008 & 2010 over the Yankees & Redsox, the two top spending teams in baseball & made it to a WS. Stop bitching & make moves.
The Rays? Again, that's an anomaly that goes against the general rule. That's like saying white rappers are just as successful as black rappers, because look at Eminem. You fail when it comes to logic.
Nigga, please. Don't talk about logic. The last 30 NBA champions have come from big market cities & you're in here crying over having a cap. The last small market team to win that is like the 1979 Supersonics lmao. Celtics. Lakers. Bulls. I just named more than half of the last 30 NBA titles. That's an embarrassment.
The Rays are the model. Don't be stupid, keep the young talent & stop being a AAA team for the rest of the MLB. In today's economy, there is no reason a team shouldn't be spending AT LEAST 60-65 million & the Royals spend 30 million dollars less & then you have the nerve to complain about salary caps.
Seattle is the 12th biggest media market :nawty:
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Baseball doesn't need a salary cap. It already has the most parity out of the four major sports in NA.
And f there was a cap in place the Yanks, Sox, etc. would just pump that extra money into scouting and other aspects of the organization and still be great teams.