How is being the favorite a bad thing?

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Tano said:
I do call the Dodgers - Yankees West sometimes. Their payroll annoys me a little but I will always be a Dodgers fan.

Thing is the Dodgers don't need to spend that money to be a great team - they have such a great farm system that they can make trades at the Deadline to pick up players for a few months to win the world series similar to how the Rams trade for players using their draft picks.
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It's amazing that baseball can't see, what makes the NFL so great is that every market, even the teeny tiny ones, have the same chance of winning as the big markets.

Baseball, to me was at its best in the '60s and '70s before the advent of free agency, when cities like Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Oakland were thriving on a level playing field. Once Steinbrenner came along, and bought up Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, and then Dave Winfield that's when Baseball started to go to the Shithouse, IMHO.
 
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Memento said:
I agree with that. Cap floors are far more important (and like I mentioned, I loathe it so much more when teams purposely fail to re-sign their players and are basically farm teams on purpose than I do with teams that spend hundreds of millions on a few players), but the ceiling is important as well, because the competitive balance and parity just isn't there, and teams end up being farm teams to the few others who can spend.

As for the third paragraph...I've mentioned that the grass is not always greener on the other side. I mentioned the St. Louis Blues earlier - who would've been relocated to Saskatoon, had they been "sold to people who can spend" - so it's not always going to turn out to be like the Dodgers. More likely, it'll turn out to be like the Bill Lauries (a very rich man who had married into Wal-Mart money who purposely dismantled the Blues when he couldn't get an NBA team to come here) or any rich person who purposely dismantles a team so they can move elsewhere (the Seattle Supersonics and Oakland Raiders/A's are the main culprits, but there are numerous others. I'm just going off of present day moves.).
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It's amazing that baseball can't see, what makes the NFL so great is that every market, even the teeny tiny ones, have the same chance of winning as the big markets.

Baseball, to me was at its best in the '60s and '70s before the advent of free agency, when cities like Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Oakland were thriving on a level playing field. Once Steinbrenner came along, and bought up Catfish Hunter, Reggie Jackson, and then Dave Winfield that's when Baseball started to go to the Shithouse, IMHO.
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I agree - free agency really hurt the sport

Damn you Curt Flood

But then again = baseball players were underpaid.
 
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Tano said:
I agree - free agency really hurt the sport

Damn you Curt Flood

But then again = baseball players were underpaid.
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I will NOT take this Curt Flood slander; he and Steve Carlson wanted to be Cardinals, dammit! (Honestly, the past way things were done in baseball meant free agency would've happened, even if he didn't press the issue early on.)

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Still better and more relevant than the Kings. :P
 
Memento said:
I will NOT take this Curt Flood slander; he and Steve Carlson wanted to be Cardinals, dammit! (Honestly, the past way things were done in baseball meant free agency would've happened, even if he didn't press the issue early on.)



Still better and more relevant than the Kings. :P
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Not saying the Blues stink. Just referring to the movie where the owner got rid of all the good players so she could move to Miami.

I still swear that Georgia saw that movie and said I can do that.

It's weird the similarities between Georgia and that movie. It came out before Georgia dismantled the Rams. It's almost like the movie director knew Georgia was going to kill the Rams.
 
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Memento said:
I will NOT take this Curt Flood slander; he and Steve Carlson wanted to be Cardinals, dammit! (Honestly, the past way things were done in baseball meant free agency would've happened, even if he didn't press the issue early on.)



Still better and more relevant than the Kings. :P
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I only liked the Kings when they had the Triple Crown line and when they got Gretzky.
 
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Tano said:
Not saying the Blues stink. Just referring to the movie where the owner got rid of all the good players so she could move to Miami.

I still swear that Georgia saw that movie and said I can do that.

It's weird the similarities between Georgia and that movie. It came out before Georgia dismantled the Rams. It's almost like the movie director knew Georgia was going to kill the Rams.
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Georgia literally said, "Anything you can do, I can do better!"
 
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Tano said:
Tommy Lasorda always made me laugh. Sometimes at him but most of the time with him.

When he tackled the Phillie Fanatic - I almost busted a rib laughing so hard.

And his Dave Kingman outburst is epic.
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Lasorda's Kingman rant was epic. It's much better listening to it with the bleeps.

Do you remember him talking to Pete Rose while in the 3rd base coaching box?
 
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Lasorda's Kingman rant was epic. It's much better listening to it with the bleeps.

Do you remember him talking to Pete Rose while in the 3rd base coaching box?
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I must have missed that one
 
Tano said:
It's weird the similarities between Georgia and that movie. It came out before Georgia dismantled the Rams. It's almost like the movie director knew Georgia was going to kill the Rams.
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If memory serves the Rams had already left for Anaheim when the movie came out. So yeah I think everyone knew what she was up to.
 
I know what’s fixing to happen this year. I’m just waiting for the couple of trip ups that’ll happen during a season that’ll get the talking heads to murdering and make the odds more profitable. Then, we can pounce and cash in!
 
Another great thing about the Dodgers ownership, they bought the Lakers. And now with Lebron gone I can start watching them again.

One thing people fail to realize, or maybe the know but just won't admit it, the Dodgers have built a top notch farm system. They have great management. If it were that easy to just buy a championship, other big market teams would be trying. The difference is, the Dodgers are just better at it. They build a solid farm system that can be used for making big trades. Much the way the Rams use draft picks for big trades.

Les uses the system he's allowed to use to build a good team. Both the Rams and the Dodgers know how to work within whatever the system allows. Les uses draft picks. The Dodgers use money and prospects to build a good team.
 
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Merlin said:
If memory serves the Rams had already left for Anaheim when the movie came out. So yeah I think everyone knew what she was up to.
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Major League came out in 1989. Rams had moved a long time ago from the Coliseum. It's the move to St Louis that I am referring to and that was 1995.
 
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My all-time favorite Lasorda comment was in-game, and came before he became a manager.

Lasorda was the Dodgers' Third Base Coach, and was mic'd-up for a Game of the Week against the Reds ...
L.A.'s top rival. Cincinnati's Pete Rose who was a 3rd baseman at the time.

Early in the game, Rose goes into his crouch just as the pitcher begins his wind-up.
Lasorda says ...
...' Hey Pete, we took a vote before the game of the Reds' best-looking player, and you finished second'
... Pete did not respond, staying focused on the pitch just as it was about to be delivered.
Then Lasorda says, with perfect timing, ...
... 'Everyone else tied for first'
... Rose slowly turned his head towards Lasorda, showing total disgust and disdain.
 
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LARAMSinFeb. said:
So much weird postseason sht happened to us back then. Remember the mud bowl? I always say being the best team doesn't always translate to SB wins.
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Remember the mud bowl? I WAS THERE. I bought a ticket at my local Radio Shack (RIP) the week of the game. Forecast said rain but I gambled it wouldn't, and lost. I lived in Torrance at the time. It was raining the second I left for the Coliseum and was still raining when I got back home many hours later. I wore blue jeans and a sweatshirt (hey, I was a dumb 19 year old). I was drenched the entire time, and couldn't make out what was going on halfway across the field. I recall having to listen to the game broadcast with my transistor radio held to my ear to know what was happening. The one freakin' time we got Minnesota at home and it rained like a great flood was imminent. But I stayed till the end, hoping against hope for a miracle. I've since been to games at U of Oregon and other locations where it rained, but NOTHING like that day in the Coliseum.
 
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