Roki Sasaki Signs with the Dodgers

[habamillions]

Baaeball will never get a salary cap for many reasons but it needs to figure something out. Fans are just going to stop showing up.

 

[DaveG]

Baseball has become basketball in that both sports suck balls.


There will never be a hard cap being cheap owners making bank of the luxury taxes with no real desire to compete will never go for it. Sucks for the fans though, but then again sports no longer seem like they cater to the fan experience anymore. Too much revenue.

THIS. Back in 94 there was a shot to save the league. The owners at that time lost when they couldn't get a hard cap. Now we have large market teams that would never sign on, and some small market owners like Nutting and Fisher that would be even more adamant about not having a cap because that would require a spending floor. Those two pricks in particular are so cheap they make the biggest cheapskates in recent NHL history like Moyes and Karmanos look like f***ing Jeff Vinik in comparison.

 

[Big Daddy Cane]

Is being a Dodgers fan even enjoyable? To me, the ride from the basement to the penthouse is the best thing about pro sports. Watching a young team grow before your eyes is so much fun.

 

[Unholy Diver]

I wonder if this closes the door on Kershaw's career

 

[TheBeard]

I just looked it up, the top 8 contracts in terms of total value are all, unsurprisingly in California and NY.

There are eleven teams combined that have as many top 100 contracts as the Dodgers (9).

 

[TheGreenTBer]

Is being a Dodgers fan even enjoyable? To me, the ride from the basement to the penthouse is the best thing about pro sports. Watching a young team grow before your eyes is so much fun.

Are you asking if watching your team win is enjoyable?

 

[GKJ]

Are you asking if watching your team win is enjoyable?

This reminds me of a post years and years ago where someone tried to argue that the Nieuwendyk/Iginla trade was bad for Dallas because they only won the Cup once

 

[Big Poppa Puck]

This reminds me of a post years and years ago where someone tried to argue that the Nieuwendyk/Iginla trade was bad for Dallas because they only won the Cup once

Different sport but I see a similar argument trying to be made about the Goff/Stafford trade.

 

[GKJ]

Different sport but I see a similar argument trying to be made about the Goff/Stafford trade.

The best example in hockey would be the Kings getting Mike Richards. It was an objectively net-bad, but they win 2 cups with him and likely wouldn’t have otherwise, and maybe win more with someone better.

 

[GIN ANTONIC]

Oh sure there was. Leverage isnt restricted to trying to get more $$.

What would be the other things in this scenario? Like maybe there are some but I’m just curious on this particular instance what it could be.

This isn’t like Juan Soto getting a private box or something

 

[Voight]

I dont get all the crying about this. Dodgers ownership have built the team into being the permanent destination for players. Yes, being located in LA helps a lot but so does having the best staff in the league. Maybe other teams should try and hire competent people and they will have the same opportunities afforded to them.

Its fantastic. All Toronto is ever used for is leverage.
Always. Players dont want to go there

He was never going to sign with them, Toronto wasn't used as leverage. He met with like over half the league, but it was a 90% chance he'd be a Dodger, 10% he'd be a Padre (because of his hero Darvish).

 

[BostonBob]

And now we know why he signed with LA.

 

[Unholy Diver]

should have signed with the Pirates, they have been in the shitter for years

 

[John Price]

And now we know why he signed with LA.

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