QB Draft History, revisited.

[Cardiac]

The Tampa Bay Rays made the World Series with the 2nd lowest payroll in MLB that season, 2008. It was the Marlins,1997, that spent a ton of money won a World Series and then released everybody. But that was because the team was owned by the guy who started Blockbuster and so he was into renting.But Florida was back in the World Series by 2003.

The Royals and Pirates are like the Lions(10 years without a winning season), Cardinals(3 winning seasons and 3 playoffs in 26 years) Browns (2 playoffs and 3 winning seasons in 18 years) and Bengals(2 playoffs and 2 winning seasons in 20 years). It isn't the money its poor management.

As for how baseball can afford those salaries I don't know. Of course they only have 27 guys instead of 53 but with the guaranteed money man it is hard to understand.

I use to work for Blockbuster so you score a double smack down for that one.

I still want to hear what you want to do in rd1 this year.

 

[freebyrd]

The Tampa Bay Rays made the World Series with the 2nd lowest payroll in MLB that season, 2008. It was the Marlins,1997, that spent a ton of money won a World Series and then released everybody. But that was because the team was owned by the guy who started Blockbuster and so he was into renting.

But Florida was back in the World Series by 2003.

The Royals and Pirates are like the Lions(10 years without a winning season), Cardinals(3 winning seasons and 3 playoffs in 26 years) Browns (2 playoffs and 3 winning seasons in 18 years) and Bengals(2 playoffs and 2 winning seasons in 20 years). It isn't the money its poor management.

As for how baseball can afford those salaries I don't know. Of course they only have 27 guys instead of 53 but with the guaranteed money man it is hard to understand.

i would think that merchandising for baseball is probably pretty close to football, and even though ticket prices can't compare 162 games makes up for a lot of it, with 81 of those being home games with concessions and parking and what not, i can see baseball being a money machine