Getting a little ridiculous! - Page 2

Cannon Shell · #1 12-24-2008, 10:32 AM

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SniperSB23 · #2 12-24-2008, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Storm Cadet

Baseball franchises,as pointed out yesterday on ESPN,are a business. The Yankees are a corporation just like IBM.

Their player salary is say 200 million and they bring in over 600 million from fans, radio, TV contracts etc. Their salaries are LOWER than last season.

So they pay MLB a lousy 25 mil in luxury tax,

I wish GM, Ford and all the other lousy companies we taxpayers are bailing out would run their business the way the Yankees do. And do you think all those owners who are taking the Yankees luxury tax profits are spending it on their team or lining their own pockets like AIG, Citibank, GM, JP Morgan?

Would you rather (and I know most Yankee haters would say yes) the Yankees go back to their days of spending 100 million on bums, get less than 1 million fans, be a non factor like the early 70's and most of the 80's with crickets as fans in Yankee Stadium. The place was as deserted as Aqueduct Racetrack is now!

I am a fan and want to see stars play here, why do you think they pack the Stadium every game? All of NY is like that as are most big market teams. Stars drive attendance which drives the profit margin which is what companies are supposed to do. NOT winning a Championship for 8 years HAS NOT made Yankee tickets any less desirable. Just try getting a seat this year. Almost impossible already. Ever try getting a spring training ticket for the Yankees? Already almost sold out. Ever try getting a good seat on the road to watch the Yankees? Hah, the other greedy owners who take the Yankees luxury tax and put it right into their pockets, circle the dates the Yankees come to town, as they do for the Red Sox. Hotels and restaurants are booked months in advance for the dates the Yanks come to town. Ask the other owners if they want the Yankees to go back to 1970 status when they had the Horace Clark's of the world playing for them.

The thing is, the Yanks are looking for a bailout just like those other companies in the form of a $450 million taxpayer subsidy for the construction of the new stadium. Yet unlike those companies who are giving off the public image that they are cutting back the Yankees are thumbing their nose at the taxpayers bailing them out. The city shouldn't give them their money and dare them to leave town. They'll never in a million years do it. The only reason you subsidize a stadium is if you believe the team will leave if you don't. Or if you're Rudy Giuliani and the Yanks will hire all your friends to work for them if you subsidize it.

Storm Cadet · #3 12-24-2008, 11:33 AM

I'd rather give the Yankees the money and drive a Honda then to watch the Tokyo Giants and drive a GM

SniperSB23 · #4 12-23-2008, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by SCUDSBROTHER

It's a piss poor deal. What do the Yanks want to accomplish? Get a ring? I don't think this is the guy for that. If you're talking about getting to the post, then sure, but they surely want more than that. I don't get the infatuation with him. Every team he has been on looks pretty flat in the crunch. The Texas teams always lacked fire in the gut. The Angels (in the post) lacked any fire in the post with him. Go back and try looking at the series his team just lost to Boston in the post. WTF you giving this guy all this $$ for if he isn't doing anything more than a couple singles a game? That's typical of that guy in big games when he was with Texas too. Fly balls, lil singles, strike outs, walks, fielder choice ground ball outs. You see a guy (in that series against Boston) that's that valuable in the post? Huh? He's a good citizen and all that, but, in the post, the YANKS are probably gunna get what he did for the Halos in the post. It ain't all that. Yea, he's tame. He is too fkn tame. In my opinion, this is the worst signing this winter. He is not a difference maker in the post. The other contracts have a possiblity of being great in the post, but there again, Sabathia hasn't been that great in the post. Yanks are gunna lose in the post.

He hit .467 in that postseason series with a .550 OBP, tough to bash him off that. His lifetime average also increases from .282 with the bases empty to .324 with RISP which would seem a good indication of clutch (compare to A-Rod who goes from .302 to .303 and Jeter who goes from .300 to .317). So not really sure why that would be a concern.

SCUDSBROTHER · #5 12-23-2008, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by SniperSB23

He hit .467 in that postseason series with a .550 OBP, tough to bash him off that. His lifetime average also increases from .282 with the bases empty to .324 with RISP which would seem a good indication of clutch (compare to A-Rod who goes from .302 to .303 and Jeter who goes from .300 to .317). So not really sure why that would be a concern.

I don't remember the guy getting anything better than a single in the post against Boston. I guess I missed it. The Halos were pretty boring offensively in that series(this is the point.) Seems like a great fit for a Yanks organization that's been tanking in the post. I don't see him being a difference maker (not when it comes to their ultimate goal of getting a ring.)