fuck, I wouldn't blame the clubbies asking to be sent to another team. also, fix the thread icon Jack Parkman
Ohhh the aftermath of another wonderful Michael Hill move Why we all thought it was obvious he was getting fired when new ownership came in....idk While I know the team gets most money from TV revenue, I hope nobody goes to the games or buys merch
that's the thing the whole idea behind Loria overpricing the team was based off the new owner being able to sign a lucrative new TV contract. Why would Fox Sports or whoever else is in the running, pay top dollar for TV rights when they just stripped the team down to the studs and got shit back in return?
I really hope they let Yelich go play for a competitor at this point, kid is too nice to be dragged through this dumpster fire
What’s even the point of keeping Yelich. The point isn’t to win games. Trade him for assets. Team can’t even sell off right
True but if they trade him they'd just get fleeced again because they want to get players back that won't be ready until three years from now
So Barry Jackson is going scorched Earth on Rob Manfred and the lies he told during the Lebby interview . To bad that white knighting shithead in the MLB thread will still find a way to blame sfl fans for what's happening smh.
Just listened to the interview. Lebatard came off like an ass with how he was attacking. Feel like the point could have been made trying a different approach. The commish sucked ass though. Over and over again saying he thinks we will be competitive long term after the moves made so far is horseshit
he was attacking because he had the information in front of him that the commissioner was straight lying about not knowing that Jeter planned to slash payroll. Also Manfred tried to be a dick from jump to try and put him in his place and anyone who listen the Lebby knows guest don't get to dictate the interview. I wish people would listen to his issue and stop trying to make this about crying over trading Stanton and rebuilding which he's said for months is the right way to build the team it just has to be done with proper tact.
Lebetard flat out called him a liar within the first 30 seconds. Manfred wasn't having it, and good for him. Was he supposed to sit there and be berated by Lebetard? Lebetard has zero intel about how those things work in those negotiations. He wouldn't have been asking the question if he did. He just didn't like his answer. It's completely reasonable to take Manfred's word that they don't require the bidders to explain their roster management plans. MLB is involved at a much higher level than that. They don't dictate who a team hires, fires, signs, or trades. They don't do it ot current clubs so why would they inquire on new owners plans? And if we're being honest, any buyer was going to trade off pieces to bring the budget down so the team doesn't continue to go in debt. I don't know why it's so hard for you guys to get that. The market doesn't support the team to a point they can have a middle of the pack payroll. The budget had to be balanced. The payroll should have never been at $120m or whatever it was last year. I get that it looks bad but would you have been happier if they just never signed Stanton at all and let him walk in FA? He would have been gone at the end of 2015 in that case. I'm a Jags fan. I get that the Jags aren't going to have a top 10 payroll. They are $30m under the cap this year. It's frustrating but I don't fault the owner for not wanting to purge money every year bc the market just can't support that type of payroll. It's sports to me. It's a business to him. If Bortles was a top tier QB that was going to get a $30m a year contract, I'd know that meant either A) they were going to lose a ton of other players or B) they'd trade Bortles in a year or two bc they couldn't maintain a payroll at the cap. I wouldn't blast the owner for refusing to go into debt every year to maintain the roster.
I will choose to believe the MLB commissioner that's gone on the record over "unnamed sources" of emotionally upset media members until proven otherwise. You can choose to believe the other side though.
emotional upset media members of a team whose fans don’t support the team but yet gets upset when said team can’t support the $280 million pricetag of their best player
I don't like the way Le Batard did the interview simply because I don't think that's a productive way of doing an interview. At that point, you're grandstanding and there's not even a point to bringing the other person on. At the same time, this is relevant and makes complete sense. MLB was heavily involved in strong-arming politicians to approve the stadium disaster. They had people telling those politicians that if they didn't approve, baseball in south Florida was dead. People were told that the stadium would mean a competitive payroll. Now, 5 years after that stadium was built with the help of MLB's bullying, MLB is pushing an ownership group whose plans are to field a non-competitive payroll. You can blame fans for not showing up and that's clearly an issue, but if I'm in Miami right now Rob Manfred (even if he wasn't commish when the stadium stuff went down) and just about everyone involved with MLB can go fuck themselves at this point.
fucking lmao at the belief that MLB would allow a team to be sold and not require the new owner to give them a heads up on what they plan to do with the franchise.
lmao suck my dick. this county has gotten literally robbed by this franchise and people expect us to support them financially
its not just that they pushed an ownership group that wants to sell. they pushed an ownership group that already can't afford the team. These clowns have owned the team for a month and are already passing the hat around looking for new investors. It's a fucking disgrace
marlins were 11th in attendance in 1997. https://www.baseball-reference.com/leagues/MLB/1997-misc.shtml any other incorrect statements you want to make?
they also sold out the entire 75,000+ seat stadium for that world series. but go ahead dump, keep caping for the alleged billionaires you’ll never meet
but nobody showed up for the team the next season. you know the one that traded literally the entire roster and went from WS champs to last place
The promise of an increased payroll was on the assumption that the new stadium would increase attendance and TV viewers. That didn't happen. MLB and the politicians bet with taxpayer money and lost. If I were a SFL resident, I'd be upset that the stadium was built, not that an owner won't take a loss every year.
you mean the team that started the season like every other season and was complete shit until june when they made an incredible turn around? yea. attendance was low. then it picked up late in the year. then they sold 75k tickets for every playoff game. Next stupid question
what does attendance from 2003 have to do with the commissioner of baseball lying about not knowing that the prospective buyers of the franchise were going to slash payroll?
it doesn't. But DBL and dump want to make this the fans fault for not supporting a shit product that constantly slaps the fanbase in the face.
The Marlins ownership should run the Marlins like the Rays, Padres, and Brewers. Just have a $60-$80m a payroll every year. Trade players before they hit FA or let them walk in FA. Don't sign them to huge deals that you have to deal later. The firesales are a bad look. Avoid them by just never bumping the payroll up to $120m to start with. Problem solved.