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Herby

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ru4reals

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I'm not a huge baseball fan so I could care less about the money they owe

Seeing Ohtani in dodger blue is f***ing cool!
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Don't follow Baseball much but a huge Ohtani fan. Follow more the Angels than Dodgers, I know there's maybe one other Angel fan here but I don't know how this can be a good contract at all. Showtime is a great player but coming off a second Tommy John not sure how this is going to end well. Hope they can win a title for Shohei though. Where's the pitching coming from since Urias is gone. Rooting for Shohei.
 
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How can a league that only does 10B in annual revenue have a 700M player contract? Am I missing something?

The NFL does nearly 19B in rev, and their biggest contract is 450M and most of it isn't guaranteed.

The NHL does 5B in revenue and their biggest contract is 100M.
 
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johnjm22 said:
How can a league that only does 10B in annual revenue have a 700M player contract? Am I missing something?

The NFL does nearly 19B in rev, and their biggest contract is 450M and most of it isn't guaranteed.

The NHL does 5B in revenue and their biggest contract is 100M.
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Supposedly this deal has some unique/creative aways of deferring salary.. but I don’t think that $10B is accurate when you still have issues with MLB teams keeping their books off the record… I think that rev per game for the Dodgers was like $3M per game in 2000 so who knows
 
Schrute farms

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700m for years 30-40…plays DH and may pitch in 2025 coming off 2nd TJ/surgery. Yikes. I know they’ll make money off him in Japan and such. Still paying past production is never a good idea
 
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It will be awesome to tell my grandkids why the Angels couldn't win anything with Trout and Ohtani. I am happy for Ohtani that he got out of that disaster, the Angels are the worst run team in all of major sports.

As for the signing, I just don't see the long-term sustainability of MLB without a salary cap. This is what makes NFL and NHL so enjoyable to watch as a fan, the talent is just so much more spread out. Even the NBA soft cap has allowed small market teams to compete better, and makes it where guys will have to sacrifice a ton of money if they want to leave the team that has their rights.
 
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Herby said:
It will be awesome to tell my grandkids why the Angels couldn't win anything with Trout and Ohtani. I am happy for Ohtani that he got out of that disaster, the Angels are the worst run team in all of major sports.

As for the signing, I just don't see the long-term sustainability of MLB without a salary cap. This is what makes NFL and NHL so enjoyable to watch as a fan, the talent is just so much more spread out. Even the NBA soft cap has allowed small market teams to compete better, and makes it where guys will have to sacrifice a ton of money if they want to leave the team that has their rights.
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I actually stopped watching baseball because of this. I love the premier league, but one of the turnoffs is that some teams will just buy whoever they want. FFP has helped that a bit, but it's the usually suspects at the top.

Baseball is turning into buy your championship. The Dodgers are successful, but to me compared to expectations they are somewhat of a failure. When you spend that much money and put together those types of rosters, winning the championships is an expectation. They've won one recently despite outspending other teams drastically. Now they have a guy whose yearly salary is more than other teams entire payrolls.

They've priced a lot of people out, unless you want to watch a team get pounded every night. Engagement is still down historically and the absence of an even playing ground is one of the reasons. The NBA has surpassed them in viewership and it's showing no signs of slowing. And I'm saying this as someone who grew up in the LA area.
 
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Raccoon Jesus

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Every owner in baseball is rich enough to buy any free agent
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Yeah saw farrrrrrrr less complaining last year when the Padres tried to outspend the USA

People just get viscerally upset when LA and NY do it despite LA's development system literally homegrowing players better than any team in MLB
 
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