MLB Playoffs

[rdwj]

I'm just the opposite - I'm a MUCH bigger baseball fan. I love the sport - even have a season ticket plan. That being said, I'd never play fantasy baseball. It would be way too time consumuing to stay on top of all your players. It would be an every-day thing.

I'd be divorced before the season ended for sure.

 

[Bernie Brewer]

I'm not a fan of caps. They seem to do more harm than good. Too often, you see players leave simply because there is no room for them. In baseball, many leave for money, but you can at least hate them for it.

Also, it would ruin one of the best parts of the season - the big player addition down the stretch!

Oh man I totally disagree. The NFL has it figured out as far as caps go. Where would teams like Green Bay or the Vikings be without that and the revenue sharing? The revenue sharing in MLB is a joke-if it wasn't the players' union would never have accepted it. And the luxury tax? Another joke. To the big teams that's just chump change.

And why do people continue to go to games even though the MLB is financially screwed up? IMHO because even with these problems, baseball is still the best game ever invented. You just can't beat a day at the old yard.

 

[pbowler]

Tigers Baby!!!

 

[the_bird]

Even though I know nobody around here other than me likes hoops, the NBA system isn't too bad. The Knicks pay an astronomical amount out in salaries, but they pay a dollar-for-dollar luxury tax on everything above ~ $60M (which means they pay about $50M in tax). There's both a regular cap and a luxury tax threshole, which is essentially a hard-cap; very few teams go over that level. The regular cap allows players to re-sign with their existing teams regardless of whether the team is under the cap or not. There is a fair amount of player movement, but not as bad as in years past and no more than in baseball. And, most teams tend to spend around $45M - $60M.

The NFL system works well, too, but it requires a shift towards signing bonuses and away from guaranteed contracts. Seems more likely that the NBA model would be realistic for MLB (well, not really, because the union is far too strong).

 

[pbowler]

Pistons BABY!!!

 

[todd_k]

Pistons BABY!!!

Your analysis and breakdown of the MLB playoffs is simply amazing.

Anyway..... Fantasy baseball is a PITA. I did it for 2 years and you have to check it daily and change your pitchers, make sure no one is getting a dayoff, it gets old fast.

 

[Ize]

Your analysis and breakdown of the MLB playoffs is simply amazing.

Anyway..... Fantasy baseball is a PITA. I did it for 2 years and you have to check it daily and change your pitchers, make sure no one is getting a dayoff, it gets old fast.

I get into the Baseball Challenge every year on ESPN and I'm done by the All Star Break. I just don't have time to navigate every damn day....

The Birds up 2 to zip and heading back to Busch. I'd seriously like to know where these guys have been the last 2 months of the season. Like I said before tho, I'm not taking anything for granted. I love my team, and have since I was a fetus, but I guess I'll take it the way Albert said... One game at a time.


Ize

 

[pbowler]

Your analysis and breakdown of the MLB playoffs is simply amazing.

Anyway..... Fantasy baseball is a PITA. I did it for 2 years and you have to check it daily and change your pitchers, make sure no one is getting a dayoff, it gets old fast.

Tigers BABY!

 

[rdwj]

Oh man I totally disagree. The NFL has it figured out as far as caps go. Where would teams like Green Bay or the Vikings be without that and the revenue sharing? The revenue sharing in MLB is a joke-if it wasn't the players' union would never have accepted it. And the luxury tax? Another joke. To the big teams that's just chump change.

And why do people continue to go to games even though the MLB is financially screwed up? IMHO because even with these problems, baseball is still the best game ever invented. You just can't beat a day at the old yard.

I agree that they need to do SOMETHING, but I'm just not sure what it is at this point. There has to be a way to let smaller market teams compete without an outright salary cap. And even if they did something like that, there needs to be allowances for stretch runs.

I also agree that baseball is the greatest game ever invented. There is just nothing like it IMHO. I love the fact that it's long season where there is something going on every day and the game isn't bound by time.

 

[Ize]

Carpenter against Woody...

Hoping for some buzz saw action today. :rockin:

I'd like to put this series to bed TODAY please....


That is all.


Ize

 

[Ize]

"That's a winner!"

- Jack

 

[rdwj]

Tigers and A's should be a nice series - both teams have a good staff and both seem to have the fire. I'm really looking forward to it, but can't really decide which team I want to win.

I'm hoping the Cards will win the minor league pennant

 

[andre the giant]

Wow, if you take my "official prediction," replace the spankees with the Detroit Tigers, and replace the line "Cards in 6 games" with "Cards in 5 games..." I might have seemed like a psychic.