Golferdow01
East-Coast Living
I'd say it more like a hot head stating a soft opinion :tongue2:
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Fair enough, but the benefactor of the lack of parity is the Yankees, therefore they get my hatred. The league management is so poor that they are almost undeserving of hatred for the joke of a league they have allowed to develop, with steroids being their latest blunder (why should I even believe they are testing players, when I know the next positive test will just be even more detrimental to their "popularity"?)Blame MLB for that, not the Yanks or the Sox. That's one of the great things about the NFL, the way it's organized. MLB could learn a lesson or two about league managment if Parity is the goal.... actually, even if Parity is not the goal, MLB could learn a lesson or two from the NFL.
sorry, i can't continue discussing this with a non-athlete like yourself.....my team is playing in the playoffs :pGolferdow01 said:I'd say it more like a hot head stating a soft opinion :tongue2:
See BN27, these are all tedginn05 statements you are making...I'm waiting for something a little more thoughtful to come from your mouth...sorry, i can't continue discussing this with a non-athlete like yourself.....my team is playing in the playoffs :p
The Yankees generate more money for other teams by traveling to their stadiums and selling out their games than the teams make playing other teams.
Good find, but I was referring to their travelling and fanbase, I agree home attendance is not where it should beMaybe they should try selling out their own games first..
The last I had seen, a couple of months ago, they Yankees had only sold out 33 of 66 home games, that is truly pathetic.
For a team with that kind of payroll, star power, and winning percentage they should be sold out years in advance.
Look at the Tribes sellout streak, back at a time when baseball wasn't the most popular sport around (just after the strike), they went years selling out every game.
11+ million people cant sell out a stadium the same size as The Jake, thats bad.
But, I am sure they will buy another team for next year and make another run at the World Series, yawn.
*Edit*
I looked it up, from the yesnetwork.com
"The team leads the league in total home attendance and average home attendance (50,455 in 80 dates) and has had 42 sellouts." (as of Sept 24th)
you dont think baseball would make up the money "lost" on the yankees if they were forced to play fair?
Read my previous posts BN, I said the system wasn't perfect. Now you say not fair, but once again we have an opinion taking prescedance over fact. I was referring to well over 70 years, if not more of tradition. Go ahead and try and dig up some statistics, but when the Yankees do well, the popularity of baseball overall does better.
What I'm saying is, if the yankees are forced to play fair (salary cap, not buy every single player from the all star game,...) that means other teams will actually have a chance. With teams like Pittsburgh and Milwaukee not sucking ass every single year, I'm guessing fans will go watch them.....and it will be good for baseball.Golferdow01 said:Read my previous posts BN, I said the system wasn't perfect. Now you say not fair, but once again we have an opinion taking prescedance over fact. I was referring to well over 70 years, if not more of tradition. Go ahead and try and dig up some statistics, but when the Yankees do well, the popularity of baseball overall does better.
All that being said you really have to be impressed with what the angels have done the last three days. Three wins in three different cities, I'll be interested to see if they hit a wall in game 2 or if they continue on.