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In a New York Times article, Angelos cried poor, essentially, and seemed to indicate that Orioles fans shouldn't get their hopes up on retaining their young stars long-term. Some of the lowlights are in quotes: •"The hardest thing to do in sports is be a small-market team in baseball and be competitive, because everything is stacked against you -- everything." •"We're going to have to raise prices here -- dramatically." By way of reminder, ideal prices, economically, are set by demand. Saying something like we need more money, so let's raise prices is a misunderstanding of Economics 101. Fortunately, Angelos elaborated, so he could educate us on how hard it'll be to own a good baseball team with good players in Baltimore. •"Let's say we sat down and showed you the financials for the Orioles. You will quickly see that when people talk about giving this player $200 million, that player $150 million, we would be so financially underwater that you'd have to raise the prices massively. Now, are people going to come and pay that? I don't know if we're at the limit, to your point. I don't know if we're in equilibrium elasticity, supply and demand. Maybe we are. But really that's just one team. What I'm really trying to think about is macro." Can we start at the beginning there? Please show us the financials. Please! One of the biggest issues when it comes to discussing economics in baseball is that no ownership groups will open their books and show us the math. It's an educated guessing game, but they want us to take their word for it and it simply isn't believable that so many teams are losing money at the rate they claim to be. Otherwise they'd put their teams up for sale. The rest of that quote is just him throwing around terms to try and act smart. He fails, since he essentially admits he doesn't know if they are charging the correct prices while also saying they'd have to raise them to pay for good players.
LMFAO This dumbass has such a good thing going with his franchise, and he just can't get out of his own way.
Baseball owners are the biggest crooks in all of sports. I always point to Oakland, Colorado, and Tampa. If the owners were loosing as much money as they say they are those teams would be constantly up for sale and there wouldn't be a line to buy them.
A team would have gotten burned had the Angels traded Ohtani. This has got to be a concern for any team wanting to sign him in the offseason. It's tough on the body to be a starting pitcher and everyday DH.
My belief is that Ohtani needs to be limited to <140ip and 400pa. That likely means a team that signs him needs to have a 6 man rotation and a deep enough lineup to only count on him for ~100 games at DH.
Man that’s a shame about Sho. He sometimes looks so miserable in clips I’ve seen. Guess Anaheim will do that to ya. Honestly it was really awesome to see him come in relief hitting 103-105 mph during the WBC. Completely torched Trout. I know that isn’t saying much, but still a really cool moment.
