The solution to tanking?

[Cardinals1964]

Looking forward to another season of Cards baseball.
Should prove to be interesting regardless of the W/L record.
And Thank God for the “anonymous” Internet so we don’t have to deal with some of these rocket scientists in real life.
Play ball!!!

Pre-smart phones, I used to love it at my "home" bar when guys would say some stupid [shirt], and I had stats to prove just how stupid that [shirt] was. Funny how smart phones kinda ended most of those guys saying the stupid [shirt] in real-life settings, knowing their take could be shot down with a couple easy searches. Weird that this place seems immune to it, though.

LOL...I figured you were part of the "Fake News" crowd. Some, even when confronted with facts, just deny them. It's one of the worst things to happen to this country.

One of the worst things to happen to this country is teaching dumb, angry old men how to use the internet.

LOL...I'd say one of the worst things to happen to this country is corrupt, dumb, angry old men.

Who is corrupt?

[AnExParrot]

Looking forward to another season of Cards baseball.
Should prove to be interesting regardless of the W/L record.
And Thank God for the “anonymous” Internet so we don’t have to deal with some of these rocket scientists in real life.
Play ball!!!

Pre-smart phones, I used to love it at my "home" bar when guys would say some stupid [shirt], and I had stats to prove just how stupid that [shirt] was. Funny how smart phones kinda ended most of those guys saying the stupid [shirt] in real-life settings, knowing their take could be shot down with a couple easy searches. Weird that this place seems immune to it, though.

LOL...I figured you were part of the "Fake News" crowd. Some, even when confronted with facts, just deny them. It's one of the worst things to happen to this country.

That's hilarious coming from the guy who admits to arguing points out of his own ignorance.

As for the "fake news crowd" you couldn't be farther from the truth, which should be a pretty comfortable feeling for you, but coming to that conclusion after what I posted is a real head scratcher since I talked about actually having stats to prove the stupid [shirt] they said was, in fact, stupid [shirt].

No proof so we'll all never know the truth, but I know what it sounds like.

No proof of what? The fact that you seem to enjoy arguing from ignorance?

Your recent thread about Church and the one regarding your ignorance about the Cardinals' payroll rankings enough proof for you?

[spfldan]

The simple truth is that, without a significant change to the MLB environment - a salary cap/floor, more revenue sharing between teams, etc. - there are going to be a lot of teams, maybe half the league, that are going to make hard choices between (1) competing and (2) economics every year.

Fans can sit back and claim that all the owners should be rich enough to not care about economics, to not care about negative, annual cash flow as long as the value of their team is (presumably) increasing, etc., but the reality is that these owners did not become billionaires by thinking that way and you aren't going to find 30 owners who are interested in owning teams and running them like Steve Cohen.

Whether you call it "tanking" or fiscally responsible restraint in a year when a team knows it can't compete with the Dodgers, Yankees, Phillies, etc. anyway, given the current structure of baseball economics, many small market teams and an increasing number of mid-market teams are going to have to make hard choices about timing their windows of when to go all-in to "win now" and when to make decisions to back off ("tank", if that's what you call it) and conserve resources.

Based on what you are writing, I have no confidence in the viability of the league.
Basically, maybe 10 (and I am being generous) teams could compete in this environment.
The other 20 will have very little chance of being a WS competitor.
And that is boring and won't make the league any popular going forward.

You both write about the ugly truth of the game. There must be a solution. If this stance is taken, find a solution, then the CBA could be a long term event.

and it sure ain't adding more playoff spots to give more teams "a chance"

[CCard]

Looking forward to another season of Cards baseball.
Should prove to be interesting regardless of the W/L record.
And Thank God for the “anonymous” Internet so we don’t have to deal with some of these rocket scientists in real life.
Play ball!!!

Pre-smart phones, I used to love it at my "home" bar when guys would say some stupid [shirt], and I had stats to prove just how stupid that [shirt] was. Funny how smart phones kinda ended most of those guys saying the stupid [shirt] in real-life settings, knowing their take could be shot down with a couple easy searches. Weird that this place seems immune to it, though.

LOL...I figured you were part of the "Fake News" crowd. Some, even when confronted with facts, just deny them. It's one of the worst things to happen to this country.

One of the worst things to happen to this country is teaching dumb, angry old men how to use the internet.

LOL...I'd say one of the worst things to happen to this country is corrupt, dumb, angry old men.

Who is corrupt?

Nope, can't talk politics.

[Cardinals1964]

Looking forward to another season of Cards baseball.
Should prove to be interesting regardless of the W/L record.
And Thank God for the “anonymous” Internet so we don’t have to deal with some of these rocket scientists in real life.
Play ball!!!

Pre-smart phones, I used to love it at my "home" bar when guys would say some stupid [shirt], and I had stats to prove just how stupid that [shirt] was. Funny how smart phones kinda ended most of those guys saying the stupid [shirt] in real-life settings, knowing their take could be shot down with a couple easy searches. Weird that this place seems immune to it, though.

LOL...I figured you were part of the "Fake News" crowd. Some, even when confronted with facts, just deny them. It's one of the worst things to happen to this country.

One of the worst things to happen to this country is teaching dumb, angry old men how to use the internet.

LOL...I'd say one of the worst things to happen to this country is corrupt, dumb, angry old men.

Who is corrupt?

Nope, can't talk politics.

I thought you were talking about an owner.