Derek Jeter

[BuckeyeNation27]

careful mud....some people (SLOOPY) are a little too sensitive about posting pictures of their team and how much they do or dont suck.

[zincfinger]

Originally Posted by Sloopy45

You obviously don't remember those teams because they weren't even close to good.

I was simplifying a little bit, but I didn't remember the final standings as having been consistently that bad. Blocking out the bad memories, maybe.

[sears3820]

@ JC

[Sloopy45]

BuckStocksHere: "It would be nice to know that instead of trying to compete with a 160million(pure guess?) payroll versus our 25 mil., we could maybe have a hard cap around 70 or so."

Actually, the exact total is $191 million. The main problem with baseball is that there's no revenue sharing. Steinbrenner makes $250 million off the YES Network alone, and that's not counting tickets, shirts, etc.

And even if the Players did agree to it, a cap would never work without revenue sharing. You can't force the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals to spend $70 million on payroll when they're not making that much.

Nation: "careful mud....some people (SLOOPY) are a little too sensitive about posting pictures of their team and how much they do or dont suck."

Are you a child? How old are you?? At least come up with something creative or insulting before you post this crap. Otherwise, we have 100 Nation posts crying, "Sloopy, Sloopy, Sloopy!!" If you could be a little more creative, maybe then you'd have a little more T-Shirt revenue coming in.

zinc: "I was simplifying a little bit, but I didn't remember the final standings as having been consistently that bad. Blocking out the bad memories, maybe."

Yep. The Yanks were very bad in those days. From 1989 to 1992, the Yanks were 288-359 (.445).

[BuckeyeNation27]

i dont get the tshirt reference.

[zincfinger]

Originally Posted by Mudvayne

...Jeter. Good player or not I'd still like to slap him

Well, I guess Derek better watch his ass then.

[BuckStocksHere]

Actually, the exact total is $191 million. The main problem with baseball is that there's no revenue sharing. Steinbrenner makes $250 million off the YES Network alone, and that's not counting tickets, shirts, etc.

And even if the Players did agree to it, a cap would never work without revenue sharing. You can't force the Milwaukee Brewers and Kansas City Royals to spend $70 million on payroll when they're not making that much.

I think revenue sharing is needed too, but even if the cap was at say 70 - the yanks and sox yada yada yada would be at 70 every year. The crew and royals and what not would probably be around 40-60. That is still better than the way it is now, because the yanks wouldn't be able to have a jeter, a rod on the same team and still pay for 23 other spots ya know? I think it would divy up the talent farther and attendance would rise at the lower end teams because now "we feel we have at least a chance". don't think it will happen in my day though... a cap that is.

[BuckeyeNation27]

can we split this thread into 2.....one full of my JOKE and sloopy bitching about it.......and a new one that would actually be meaningful to post on about the problems in baseball (yankees)?

[sears3820]

Sloopy is thinking you're BuckeyeNation12, the one with that made the "Free Maurice!" t-shirts last year.