holy crap i just laughed out loud. i can't wait to grab a beer with you while you're wearing your new Romo jersey, Rangers cap, and Mavs workout shorts.
remember when madmax and some brah named Rocketman95 used to play footsies on this here bbs? remember? it was awesome.
ok, now you're just being hurtful. the only dallas gear i would ever consider wearing is a stars hat or an smu co-ed's ass as a hat. THAT'S IT.
The Cubs are at $150MM. The Cards and Astros are (or were) closer to $100MM. But the Pirates know that if they are in contention with any of those teams, those teams can afford to go make a blockbuster move, but they can't. And they know that as soon as they build a good team, they'll have to blow it up because their star players will want to get paid some absurd amount. With a cap, they don't have to worry about either of those things. The Yankees can't magically outbid them for all their players and players can't demand $20MM / yr, so they don't have to keep trading whatever talent they develop to avoid losing them at free agency. The Marlins have remained competitive - they trade their players because they know, at the end of the day, they would be foolish to pay Miguel Cabrera the $15-20MM he's going to command on the open market. Those kinds of salaries are killers for teams with $80-$100MM payrolls. So why keep him? But in a salary cap world, where they can keep Cabrera for a lower salary, they could keep and build around him. A salary cap goes far beyond just bringing payroll parity. It changes the way free agency works, which also changes how teams deal with players approaching free agency. It changes the entire way you address building a team. It also puts public pressure to build a payroll similar to the teams in your division because there's no longer any financial argument preventing the Pirates from fielding the same exact team the Cubs or Cardinals or Astros can field.
i'm a nhl mercenary fan. i had picked the coyotes due to my parents living there, then they decide to move back home to texas. hard to root for a team in a city i really have no ties to. i didn't like phoenix enough to ever go back there. but hey, go giants, amirite?
oyourrite! i prefer Northern California to Northern Texas every day of the week and twice on Fridays. mostly because i don't have to deal with insufferability the way I do with Dallas-folk. :grin:
The Phillies should do everything they can to acquire one Cody Ross' services this offseason, if for no other reason than to guarantee not having to face him again in the postseason.
Amazing this guy is doing what he is. He has been a pretty good hitter over the years but he is playing out of his mind.
If the Phillies go with Blanton in the next game, I have a feeling he will get rocked. He had a very good stretch in the 2nd half but I see the Giants bats breaking out against him. If SF goes with Bumgarner, I'm not sure how he'll fare. He's very talented but very young. I hear he's a great competitor so maybe he'll be able to put together another quality start like he did against the Braves. Not sure.
Business about to pickup! That Yankee fan is an idiot but funny HAHAHA. Jersey Shore meets Yankee baseball...
