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Post by GoodsirNigginton on Oct 21, 2003 14:47:06 GMT -5
someone call a baseball team shitty because they make a shitload of money each year.
I'm not a yankee fan, but I think thats pretty stupid. Look at it this way.
They've been around for a century in one of the biggest cities in the US.
They're first 50-60 years was nothing but good times with some of the best baseball players in the history of the sport. Nothin but highlight reels and some of the most memorable moments in the game.
Fastforward to today. The whole state is full of baseball fanatics who were born and raised into Yankee fever brainwashing. Add shit like Frank Sinatra, the mob, 9-11, etc, etc icons of Americana and it leaves the rest of the nation loving the state which in turn makes casual baseball fans Yankee fans.
You know as well as anyone that baseball isn't a sport anymore its a business, and whats the first rule of a succesful business? Location, location, location, and the Yankees have THE best location in baseball.
By running a winning team they are running a succesful business, thereby, making them not suck.
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Post by Shevy on Oct 21, 2003 16:15:54 GMT -5
Let's put this into a business sense then:
You own a business making sandwiches, and buy a loaf of bread for $0.39/loaf and make a profit.
A competiting business who is much larger than you buys bread at $1.07/loaf and makes a profit.
Just because they have more money to spend doesn't mean they're spending it wisely. Why pay $1.07 when you can pay $0.39? It's a poor business decision.
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Post by Shevy on Oct 21, 2003 16:19:33 GMT -5
By the way, I'm not calling them shitty because they make a shitload of money. The Red Sox make a shitload of money, too.
The problem with baseball is the fact there is no salary cap. You can spend a billion dollars on a team if you want to. What I'm saying is the Yankees are "proud" to be spending ungodly amounts of money just to barely squeak out wins. With that kind of money, the Yankees should be kicking everybody's ass no problem.
Here's an example of my thinking:
Let's say you're in the market for a sports car. Something that goes fast. You can spend $25,000 on a V6 sports car, or $50,000 on a V8 sports car. Should be a no-brainer which one goes faster, right?
If that V8 sports car beats that inexpensive V6 by .0001 second, what is there to be proud of? In terms of sports cars, that is one shitty $50,000 V8.
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Post by GoodsirNigginton on Oct 21, 2003 16:21:35 GMT -5
that would only apply if its the same quality of bread as well as the same type. If they were paying nearly 3 times the price for the same type/quality of bread then that would be a bad decision. If its a higher quality/type then can charge more and in turn make the same if not more money.
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Post by GoodsirNigginton on Oct 21, 2003 16:25:33 GMT -5
By the way, I'm not calling them shitty because they make a shitload of money. The Red Sox make a shitload of money, too. The problem with baseball is the fact there is no salary cap. You can spend a billion dollars on a team if you want to. What I'm saying is the Yankees are "proud" to be spending ungodly amounts of money just to barely squeak out wins. With that kind of money, the Yankees should be kicking everybody's ass no problem. Here's an example of my thinking: Let's say you're in the market for a sports car. Something that goes fast. You can spend $25,000 on a V6 sports car, or $50,000 on a V8 sports car. Should be a no-brainer which one goes faster, right? If that V8 sports car beats that inexpensive V6 by .0001 second, what is there to be proud of? In terms of sports cars, that is one shitty $50,000 V8. well as long as they keep winning by pulling off those close "exciting" games then well they'll keep filling the seats and they'll keep selling the merchandise. As long as that happens it really doesn't matter how much they spend because they'll still be making bank and they'll still be happy. |
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Post by Shevy on Oct 21, 2003 16:31:52 GMT -5
If you had $50,000, which one would you buy?
A $25,000 V6 sports car or a $50,000 V8 sports car that was a fraction of a second faster?
9 people out of 10 would choose the $25,000 V6. It's almost as fast, but half the money. As a matter of fact, if you took that extra $25,000 and invested it into a computer chip, exhaust, tires, etc...it would be even faster.
Money aside, if everybody had the same payroll as the Yankees, the Yanks would be towards the bottom of the heap. How do I know? Because they can barely beat teams with a third of the salary.
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Post by GoodsirNigginton on Oct 21, 2003 16:33:45 GMT -5
i'd buy a muthafuckin caddy biotch!
hey well, if theres a was a salary cap then your probably right, but if I cared that would make me a baseball fan and baseball fans are stupid.
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Post by Shevy on Oct 21, 2003 16:40:41 GMT -5
Ha ha! $50,000 will buy you a nice STS.
Actually, I'm surprised you're not into baseball Sam, since you're big into things like strategy. Baseball is good stuff when you get into it. Looks like a guy hitting a ball with a stick for four hours on the outside of the box, but when you look on the inside it's insanely complex.
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Post by GoodsirNigginton on Oct 21, 2003 16:57:20 GMT -5
i watched it when i was a kid, and i watch a game from time to time with my dad. It doesn't do anything for me except when people fight or get injured. Which is why hockey is the shit!
btw...whats game we used to play a while back with the gigantic teams of space shits flying around and randomly shooting the hell out of each other 16bit style? That game was awesome and I wished I could remember the name. I want to kill some more of those cloaking assholes.
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Post by Shevy on Oct 21, 2003 17:12:01 GMT -5
Hockey is awesome, too. I've been on a PS2 NHL 2K3 kick lately, although AHL has it all over the NHL. Especially since Stock was sent to Providence.
Something-zone, wasn't it? I can't remember either.
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Post by DaddyWarcrimes on Oct 23, 2003 10:45:13 GMT -5
I thought it would have been a much better series with Red Sox/Cubs. And not from a simple home team knee jerk reaction. Let some other teams that don't spend the GNP of a small African nation have a crack at it once in a while. New York just plain old blows horse cock anyways.
The fucking Yankees can kiss my entire ass for all the good they do for baseball.
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Post by Shevy on Oct 23, 2003 12:09:21 GMT -5
A Red Sox vs. Cubs series would have probably broken records for the most watched World Series of all time. The fact it's Yanks vs. Marlins is as close to proof as you're going to get that baseball is not fixed.
I guess the Marlins vs. Yanks ratings have been the worst ratings for a World Series of all time. The only people watching this shit are people from New York that actually support the Yanks over the Mets, the people from Florida that actually give a flying fuck about baseball in the first place, and the extremely hardcore baseball fans.
I haven't seen a single game, and unless it gets to game 7, I have no plans on watching it either. It's too bad, too, because there were some awesome teams that had a chance: Twins, A's, Red Sox, and Cubs. All those teams are highly respectable ball clubs that actually put on a good game.
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