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Unless owners institute a salary cap, I’m outta here. I’ve been a fan since 1960. I won’t watch, read or discuss the game ever again. It is a travesty that Dodgers can just buy the best team. So I really enjoyed being a part of Cards talk and wish all of you guys and gals the best going forward. God Bless.

Woke

best WS in many many years - baseball is alive and well!

swatski wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:35 pm Unless owners institute a salary cap, I’m outta here. I’ve been a fan since 1960. I won’t watch, read or discuss the game ever again. It is a travesty that Dodgers can just buy the best team. So I really enjoyed being a part of Cards talk and wish all of you guys and gals the best going forward. God Bless.

This is what confuses me about people who griped about selling at the deadline. What did they see that they felt we could beat LA.

This is going to get real dark for STL. I fully believe DeWitts plan is to get a salary cap and when that fails he will refuse to seriously build a winner turning this team into what Angelos turned the Orioles into for decades. It maybe generations before STL sees another World Series.

dugoutrex wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:36 pm best WS in many many years - baseball is alive and well!

It’s far from well. There are major issues with the sport.

Stlcardsblues wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:41 pm

swatski wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:35 pm Unless owners institute a salary cap, I’m outta here. I’ve been a fan since 1960. I won’t watch, read or discuss the game ever again. It is a travesty that Dodgers can just buy the best team. So I really enjoyed being a part of Cards talk and wish all of you guys and gals the best going forward. God Bless.

This is what confuses me about people who griped about selling at the deadline. What did they see that they felt we could beat LA.

This is going to get real dark for STL. I fully believe DeWitts plan is to get a salary cap and when that fails he will refuse to seriously build a winner turning this team into what Angelos turned the Orioles into for decades. It maybe generations before STL sees another World Series.

They still think the post season is a crapshoot lol and if the cards had just kept helsley and maton they could have won it

Would it have made you feel better if the team with the fifth highest payroll won?

Gob wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:44 pm Would it have made you feel better if the team with the fifth highest payroll won?

Yes.
And if the team with only 2 prior all-time WS championships had won.

mountaineer wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:51 pm

Gob wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:44 pm Would it have made you feel better if the team with the fifth highest payroll won?

Yes.
And if the team with only 2 prior all-time WS championships had won.

Yeah i agree.
And also because that team that had the 5th highest payroll most likely won't be that high next season, where as the team that had the highest and won it, will most likely have the highest again, and even more so, with odd they'll sign the best available player - Tucker - to a huge deferred deal and look to be back here again for a 3rd time next fall. JMHO

Ok see ya

One more year, then labor Armageddon.

Burn it all down.

desertrat23 wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:55 pm One more year, then labor Armageddon.

Burn it all down.

We don’t need to burn it down imo.

The Cards need a top 3 front office and a new, great ownership group. Is that a big ask? Very much so.

Anything less than those two and competing for championships isnt a serious possibility.

dugoutrex wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:36 pm best WS in many many years - baseball is alive and well!

Pressure beat the Blue Jays, not money.

swatski wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:35 pm Unless owners institute a salary cap, I’m outta here. I’ve been a fan since 1960. I won’t watch, read or discuss the game ever again. It is a travesty that Dodgers can just buy the best team. So I really enjoyed being a part of Cards talk and wish all of you guys and gals the best going forward. God Bless.

As much as I think I want to, I can’t get behind a salary cap. If our bosses were making several billion off of our work, we’d want several million too.

No one is putting a profit cap on owners and their $15 beers, ever-rising ticket prices, [shirt]ty corporate ads on uniforms, other branding and marketing revenue, baseball villages, profit sharing revenue…which supposed “small market” teams get from the likes of the big bad Dodgers, but they don’t reinvest that money into their team and instead blame the fans for not buying tickets to their inferior product.

Competitive balance should come from taking advantage of favorable draft positioning
when finishing poorly, investing competitive balance funds into their own teams, smart contract structure (see Ohtani deal), innovative player development, and smart spending. Not communism.

MLB does need some sort of Salary Cap but I’ll keep watching.
Go Cards!

swatski wrote: ↑01 Nov 2025 23:35 pm Unless owners institute a salary cap, I’m outta here. I’ve been a fan since 1960. I won’t watch, read or discuss the game ever again. It is a travesty that Dodgers can just buy the best team. So I really enjoyed being a part of Cards talk and wish all of you guys and gals the best going forward. God Bless.

Bye