In case you hadn't heard, last week the Marlins traded away their two biggest stars, Miguel Cabrera and Dontrelle Willis, for six nobodies.When will this madness end, I ask you?? These large-market teams cannot be allowed to continue using teams like the Florida Marlins as their farm teams! It's not fair! Teams like the Marlins and Devil Rays should be in the World Series every year! They should never fail! There should be a rule that the Kansas City Royals must be in the World Series every three years. Simple as that. Write it down, Bud Selig.
The Marlins are cash-strapped and are continuing to trade away their stars just as they become legitimate and the team begins to look good. Never mind that they might be a marginally-run franchise playing in a fickle market with lame fans. No, that doesn't matter. We need a salary cap and more revenue sharing! These poor teams don't deserve to be poor! They were born that way! Communism Baseball is the way to go!!
If I could pound my fist online I would do so, just so you could see how serious this is! The Yankees cannot be allowed to continue to "buy" good players just because they don't care about payroll! They keep trying to buy championships and yet haven't won it in years! This is unfair!
Wait, what? Hold on...
Oh, the Tigers are the ones who made this swipe from the Marlins? Oh, okay, it's cool then.
4 comments:
I would generally agree with you, but, without revenue sharing in the NFL Green Bay wouldn't have a team and Peyton Manning wouldn't be in Indy. Plus there should be a law made for the Brewers - 26 years is too long!
In all fairness, in a couple years the Marlins aer going to be on top again thanks to all the talent the Tigers gave them.
Until they trade Hanley Ramirez and Dan Uggla next offseason. And so on. They won't be back to '97/'03 form until after they have a new park and new revenues. Even then, once a team proves it can survive without spending, it has no incentive to spend. Less you spend on payroll means more profits.... sometimes. We'll see how it goes.
Revenue sharing doesn't make owners smart: you could argue that the same force that keeps the Packers in Green Bay also keeps Millen in Detroit.
I believe Glass in KC is one owner who's rumored to eat the profit-sharing cash that exists now. If there were rules about spending a certain percentage of it, some owners would spend only that much of it.
The Marlins got a lot of projected talent, to be sure, but they find a bit of it themselves and collect some more. Some of those guys won't pan out (one theory behind trading potential for now, especially if you have an older team like Detroit does).
In the current economic situation, I suppose it's better to make a push every few years, especially if it pays off, then, say, to follow Baltimore's model. (Did I mention bad ownership already?)
I hope this works for the Tigers, though. The bandwagon Cardinals fans came out in droves around here. (Not only that, but the '06 Series was the catalyst for the Myth of David Eckstein, Lord Scrappy.) If they don't get a title out of this bunch, it might be another 20 years until they contend again.
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