greg775 Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 OK, the Mets are dumping salary. The Rangers want to dump all salary. Several teams in the past few seasons have dumped salary and many more are talking about dumping salary. The Sox have acquired a pair of players who they won't have to pay much money to and have no intention of taking on a lot of salary. My question is ... why do baseball teams get themselves in this position time and again?? They have overpaid ballplayers for years and except for the Yankees, seemingly see the error of their ways and ultimately get rid of salary. Why have baseball teams overpaid for players, forced the skyrocketing of ticket prices and parking lot prices and concession prices when 85 percent of the time the teams with high payrolls ultimately have forced firesales???? (Cleveland, Texas, Mets, etc.). Is it all because of George Steinbrenner??? Is he the reason for this financial absurdity in baseball?? Again ... all you hear about is teams wanting to dump salary. So why did they overpay to begin with and ruin this great sport of ours????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 human nature read the book of Ecclesiastes what has been done before is done now and will be done again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greg775 Posted July 4, 2003 Author Share Posted July 4, 2003 Summarize the book of Eccles. for me, though I do like the Bible as a good former Southside resident who remains Catholic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwsox Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 Ecclesiastes Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun? A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hurries to the place where it rises. The wind blows to the south, and goes around to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns. All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow. All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has already been, in the ages before us. The people of long ago are not remembered, nor will there be any remembrance of people yet to come by those who come after them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubleM23 Posted July 4, 2003 Share Posted July 4, 2003 It's because you have "business people" cutting checks for MLB teams; not baseball people who actually know what the f*** they're doing... Alex Rodriguez will sign for $14 million a year? Let's sign him for $25! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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