At one point I thought he was moving the team to Nashville. I think that option flamed out recently. I am the rare Dodger fan who also likes the Angels (sort of).
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Kind of like Utah fans who like Utah State in situations where Aggie wins don’t affect Utah negatively.
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Yeah, also helps they don’t really matter other than a couple series a year since they won’t play the Dodgers in the WS. I also am a fan because my grandmother worked for John Robinson back in the day and for some reason we always got Angels tickets. The Jim Abbott years and Wally Joyner years were fun.
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Joyner is still one of my all-time faves.
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I think they should wrap up the regular season sham right now and just get on with the Dodgers-Yankees World Series. And fold the rest of the teams. That’s where I’m at as a formerly avid MLB fan.
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eh. We need to really change the Yankees for Baltimore. Also, the Dodgers are doing a barn storming tour of the league giving fans a glimpse of what the sweet life looks like.
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Watching teams with $300 million payrolls (which doesn’t take into account shady deferred salary schemes) going up against teams with 1/3rd their payrolls is not my idea of a good time. MLB is about as enjoyable to watch now as college football, that is to say, not at all enjoyable. Unregulated money is the scourge of modern sports.
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So let me get this straight: a team that pays its players instead of begging taxpayers for a nine-figure stadium handout, and funnels every dime back into the club is the villain here?
Look, the pearl-clutching over capitalism in sports is always a wild. Baseball, like any other major league, runs on a scarce resource: elite talent. And guess what? Scarce things cost money. That’s not greed—that’s Econ 101.
Now, if what you really want is a league where billionaires can cry poor and get legislative handouts to stay “competitive,” I’ve got bad news: that’s not parity. That’s socialism for the rich and boredom for the fans. Rewarding owners who refuse to invest in their rosters isn’t protecting the sport—it’s watering it down.
Let the market work. Let the teams that spend win (or at least try). And let the ones who don’t enjoy their participation trophies and empty seats.
Bottom line: Blame the owners treating their teams like trust funds with turf instead of actually investing in, y’know, winning. (See Arte Moreno)
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The system is the villain. Gross, unmitigated capitalism. It’s why I don’t watch pro sports anymore, and that includes college sports.
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Same with my team, the White Sox. People clamoring for Jerry Reinsdorf to sell the team are wasting their breath. No way that’s going to happen and him paying capital gains from the 35+ years he’s owned the club when his kid can get it, step up the basis, and sell their shares without a huge tax hit.
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ridiculous to assume that the Pirates, Rays and Royals can spend anywhere close to the Dodgers and Yankees. The Dodgers and Yankees bring in billions from their local TV deals. Many of the smaller market teams dont make any money from theirs. The NFL model allows small market teams like Green Bay to compete with Dallas.
Did you just bring up Dallas Cowboys as a comparison with the Dodgers. Jerry Jones doesn’t need the socialist style of the NFL to make test better than his. He would fail in a capitalist society. Also, NFL is a sport that is uniquely American.
World football doesn’t have a subsidized system like the NFL and thrives.
College Sports is at the point it’s at because the Universities refuse to allow student athletes to be labeled what they are… Student employees.
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To be a bit pedantic, I’d argue that the Packers are more competitive than the Cowboys. The Pack at least has an ownership group that desires to be better, and to win. As a Cowboys fan, I cannot say the same about Jerry and Co.
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Not really on topic of baseball, but it’s astonishing how much inve$tment is made in the Cowboys organization with so little to show for it the last few decades.
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Dallas joined the Raiders in the ownership doom cycle - a business cycle point where the owner thinks they know more about creating and managing a team than the GM and HC. Just like the Raiders when Jerry is no longer his son will just pick up where dear old dad left off in driving the franchise on the road to nowhere.
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We Cowboys fans see the extremely strong parallels. I suppose I should be glad to root for the Ravens too, at least their ownership has a GM who’s competent.
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Hard pass on watching “student employees”.
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Buddy, if watching unpaid labor is your thing, might I suggest community theater! I love it and you don’t have to worry about people having coin in their pocket.
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No, thanks. You seem awfully concerned/obsessed with my welfare and interests. Kindly move on. I’m not in need of your advice, sir. And please refrain from referring to me as “buddy”. I don’t consider us as having that kind of relationship.
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And before you respond, because I know you will, it seems to be in your nature, here’s this from AI:
“While the desire to have the last word can feel satisfying, it can also be a sign of insecurity, a way to exert control, or a barrier to productive communication and healthy relationships.”
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