SI.com's "Things We Miss in Baseball."

The card prices in the 80s were insane. wasn't the Henderson Topps rookie like $250?

 

I guess heaven needed someone with the shortest possible "De" last name.

 

It never ceases to amaze me that people expect team owners to voluntarily lose millions.
Essentially, you're saying that KC, Pittsburgh, etc are the "bad guys" for continuing to exist.

 

HEnderson, Winfield, Brett, Yount, Murray...all those guys. I probably either threw away or gave away a good college education to my nephew. Of course, he traded his cards for a pellet gun. Little prick
I was going to start buying sets for my son (22 months old) but it costs way too much anymore.
Playthrough, the Griffey Upper Deck card was so expensive. Then the cops busted someone who used to work at Upper Deck with something like 5,000 of them in his trunk. Apparently he and some buddies that worked there printed a ton of them and snuck them out and would drive all over the country selling them. That's some funny shit.
Oh, and since Joe DeSa has passed that autographed card would be smoking on eBay. Actually, probably not.

 

If you're not going to spend to win, don't have a team.

Hmm, I've seen that somewhere on this thread before. What I haven't seen is any counter to the various examples of teams not in New York or LA managing to do things right. What baseball needs is a Larry O'Brien going nuke on the Ted Stepiens of the MLB ownership. Then again, Selig was largely one of those.

 

Continuing to exist? are you serious? how the fuck did he buy the team in the first
place? it's not like he built anything. he actually did the opposite. he shit on what was
once a proud organization. when he bought the team there was no salary cap or luxury
tax and KC was a small market. what the fuck did he have in mind? did he think they'll
be a salary cap in baseball and even though yankees, dodgers, red sox fans pay 8X more
for tickets i'll somehow get a competitive team. maybe he is a bad guy, maybe he isn't
but no one is going to shed a tear for a multi-millionaire who took some of his
"hard-earned" money to buy a team and now realizes it takes a lot more money and/or
baseball knowledge to not suck.

 

Larry Dolan thinks your argument is shit.

 

good one CB. but he can blow me because i have directTV. his nephew also is an assclown.

 

i miss the baseball bunch and lasorda's big fat belly in the white dodgers uni.

 

TWIB was the greatest show in the history of television.