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QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Oct 4, 2014 -> 04:58 PM)
@JeffPassan: Albert Pujols has seven years, $189M left on his deal. Josh Hamilton has three years, $83M. Pujols is in constant pain. Hamilton is a ghost.

 

This is just impossible to believe. How can these teams keep signing these guys year after year? Baseball needs a salary cap so badly. Obviously they'll never get one. Baseball's players union is golden. If baseball owners like bears could hibernate in the winter the sport would have been so much better and people could actually afford to go to games. Owners just have to have these big name players even though about 5 percent are worth it.

Oh well, just charge more for hot dogs and Cokes and parking.

 

How in the hell can GMs keep their jobs? Bust after bust after bust with these huge contracts. And this offseason somebody's gonna give Shields 20 million a year for 5-6 years. Ha ha. That GM will regret it the day Shields shows up for spring training. What an awful sport. Too bad I'm hooked on it.

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QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 4, 2014 -> 03:28 PM)
This is just impossible to believe. How can these teams keep signing these guys year after year? Baseball needs a salary cap so badly. Obviously they'll never get one. Baseball's players union is golden. If baseball owners like bears could hibernate in the winter the sport would have been so much better and people could actually afford to go to games. Owners just have to have these big name players even though about 5 percent are worth it.

Oh well, just charge more for hot dogs and Cokes and parking.

 

How in the hell can GMs keep their jobs? Bust after bust after bust with these huge contracts. And this offseason somebody's gonna give Shields 20 million a year for 5-6 years. Ha ha. That GM will regret it the day Shields shows up for spring training. What an awful sport. Too bad I'm hooked on it.

Albert Pujols's team is also in the postseason.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 4, 2014 -> 07:32 PM)
Albert Pujols's team is also in the postseason.

 

If baseball was like football, so many of these guys would be released year after year it'd be remarkable. True, football players get to keep the huge bonuses, but once they become average, they are released so teams don't have to pay the ridiculous contracts they sign the players to. I can't wait to see which team makes the huge blunder on Shields.

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QUOTE (greg775 @ Oct 4, 2014 -> 03:37 PM)
If baseball was like football, so many of these guys would be released year after year it'd be remarkable. True, football players get to keep the huge bonuses, but once they become average, they are released so teams don't have to pay the ridiculous contracts they sign the players to. I can't wait to see which team makes the huge blunder on Shields.

You're the one who keeps repeating the mantra that you don't care about Jerry Reinsdorf's pocket book, you just care about the team winning, right?

 

That's exactly the attitude that drives those kind of contracts. People have to win now, they don't care about the owner's pocket book.

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Oct 4, 2014 -> 07:53 PM)
You're the one who keeps repeating the mantra that you don't care about Jerry Reinsdorf's pocket book, you just care about the team winning, right?

 

That's exactly the attitude that drives those kind of contracts. People have to win now, they don't care about the owner's pocket book.

 

True, but in the NFL you can sign a guy to a 6-year deal knowing you'll cut him after one or two years. In baseball ... what a rip off.

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