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Maybe now Boras and Harper will finally sign...
WOW. He signed a minor league contract?
Is Machado the punk who acted like a street thug in the NL playoffs against MIL last year?
Maybe will payoff down the road? Padres don’t look to be contenders in 2019.
$300 million for 10 years sounds like quite a gamble.
There is going to be strike this year. This one could last more than a season.
Don’t expect him to leg-out pop ups or infield hits. Because he won’t. Not for 300 Million, anyways....
You know, we're so used to hearing price tags of billions and trillions of dollars so when I saw that $300 million figure, I said why the heck would this guy agree to that lousy figure.........Duh!
The highest salary my all time favorite ball player and now Hall of Famer Al Kaline ever reached was $100,000 per year back in 1972 and that was a year after he turned down the same salary saying he didn't deserve it, citing a poor season. According to the article I'm quoting from 2015, that $100K figure equates to $564,000.......
Last summer a friend gave me 4 tickets to a Tiger game that were given to him by a friend who has season tickets. Since I had long ago given up watching baseball and hadn't been to a Tiger game in several decades, I invited my sister, her daughter and her daughter's son to join me. We were 11 rows up behind the first base dugout and the tickets came with premier parking in the parking structure connected to the stadium and it was just a short walk from there to the entrance where we were met with attendants with metal detectors.
Cost of each ticket: $85..........And the original owner of the tickets was a season ticket holder!
There is no way in hell I could have afforded those tickets myself......I remember my summers in Detroit in the early 60's when myself and my buddies would spend every summer day on the playground playing ball with just a few of us. Once in a while we would get some change from our parents and they would let us SAFELY take the bus downtown to watch the tigers. Ultimately we would make our way to the vacant seats along the foul lines and occasionally behind the dugouts. One of those years I actually got a broken bat given to me by Rocky Colavito and the first thing I did with it when I got home was to get a couple of screws and screw the handle together so we could use it on the playground.........LOL!
Baseball has been destroyed by money and I don't know where the blame lies. I suspect it's a combination of the players, their agents and the owners. Each of whom don't realize what their rising costs are doing to the sport and the fans who no longer can afford to go to the games........
As for myself, last summer was my last Tiger game. Two years ago a stadium was built in Utica, MI, called Jimmy John's Field and is hosting the United Shore Professional Baseball League, an independent baseball league.
They only have four teams but the players are made up of ex college players who were never scouted by the pros but yet a few of them have signed with minor league teams.
The complete baseball venue is family friendly and prices conducive to taking your wife and kids out to the game on a hot summer evening.........
I love the names of the teams:
Birmingham Bloomfield Beavers
Eastside Diamond Hoppers
Utica Unicorns
Westside Woolly Mammoths......
That's the kind of baseball I can enjoy..........
The Padres might be proving to be baseball's version of the winner's curse. Winning the bidding wars with the big boys only to get underperforming assets.
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Padres are stupid. I’ll wager they don’t make the playoffs once in the next decade.
Good. Get him as far away as possible from my Red Sox.
what is wrong with the world in a nutshell...
Meanwhile, the Rays will use the best analytics talent in MLB to deliver 90+ wins without any big names and the lowest payroll in baseball. As a reward for their efforts, the Rays will also have the lowest attendance in baseball.
The saga is just beginning. The Padres just bought more than they bargained for
