Which system is better: NFL or Baseball

Yeah, like those great NFL teams, the 1990s Expos and 2003 Marlins.

 

Please tell me... the last great team that broken up by the cap.

Even Edgerrin James leaving the Colts (so that Manning and Harrison can be lifers in Indy), it's not like he's going to an obscenely stacked Jets or Giants squad because they can spend $200 million and buy the Super Bowl.

He's going to Arizona.

Cards get better, Colts are still good.

 

Trading IS losing players (and actually getting something back othere than the door swinging back in your face)... fuckingchrissakes, you aren't that dense.... I goddamned well know that... I think.

 

What ... so he can throw away $20 million more of his non-baseball money, and still be below $70 million, $130 million behind the Yankees?

You guys say you are capitalists, sneering at the NFL socialism.... and then you whine about owners not grabbing from one of their other businesses to subsidize their sport's losing economic model.

 

As Seinfeld said, most fans are rooting for clothing. Their team's uniform, and success.

But, again, the Cubs are exception central, with awful records being met by sellout after sellout.

 

Vintage Neutered:

Mentions James... doesn't mention Peyton Manning (Could you see HIS contract existing in any of half of the teams in MLB?) and Harrison on their way to spending double-digit years with one of the smallest markets in the NFL.

Mentions Owens.... The 49ers were DONE with that asshole.

Mentions Rice.... I'm really sorry that Jerry, instead of choosing the punch-drunk boxer/Willie Mays ending that he did, didn't choose to end his career when his days as a great player were over, as Dan Marino did. Favre is stumbling around, but at least it is with the same team. 100 percent Rice's fault.

You could not be a bit more disingenuous.

 

The Twins are in the 15th-largest TV market. They are, in all technicality, a large-market team.

They have the 18th-ranked payroll.

So, they aren't quite the Lilliputians they are made out to be.


Anyway, binge over.

Class dismissed.

 

Typical for people like Pube and his reinforcements. They start an argument, get beaten down and go home and cry.

 

I like the two sports equally, but jesus, the fact that 29 of you voted baseball as having a better system means one of the following:

- Everyone hates Pube that much
- There are a lot of Yankee fans here
- There are a lot of head-in-the-sand baseball writers

Yes, baseball's system is starting to balance out with revenue sharing. And football's system ain't perfect. But jesus, it still isn't a close comparison: Everybody in football has a chance, and spends about the same amount of money. In baseball it's three tiers: the Yankees and Sawx, other teams that spend but not that much, and small-market teams. How can you defend that?

 

Well said, Ralph,

And done at the risk of the McCarthyism being directed your way.

And the answer to your speculation for the pro-baseball sentinent is the first answer, by a Secretariat margin.

 

You left out Tier 4: The Cubs. They spend, but only to fill immediate holes and never looking ahead more than one season.

 

If baseball had a 16-game schedule, every team would have a chance.