I'm calling it now: Oakland vs. San Francisco in the World Series. Winner gets San Jose.

Shouldn't the second half of the title be "as Red Sox Suck"?

Shouldn't the second half of the title be "as Red Sox Suck"?

It does seem a little weird to call out a team tied for first.

It does seem a little weird to call out a team tied for first.

Click rates! Click rates! Please try to play along. Facts have nothing to do with this.

laugh !

You could put them both in there:

"as Yankees Struggle to Stay 15 Games up on the Crappy Red Sox"

Wolf is such a cheap SOB. Fans would have more satisfaction if the satisfaction came more than once every 6 years.

“If we were spending more, I probably wouldn’t have the same sense of satisfaction,” he said with a laugh.

Nothing satisfies like a pocket full of free cash, does it Lew?

Nothing satisfies like a pocket full of free cash, does it Lew?

There's an easy way to cut the A's off from revenue sharing: let them move to San Jose.

$7.5 mill for a 1B with a 91 OPS+, and who had a 103 OPS+ when he was there last. Moneyball.

"But that D!" 0.1 WAR.

It doesn't make sense that fans would care what a team spends on players, just that those players performed. I can understand feelings about the salaries of a specific player, in that big money spent on crappy players either means resources that can't be spent elsewhere, or that player being given more playing time than he deserves.

If MLB salaries were kept completely confidential, would A's fans enjoy this season less? Would Yankee fans enjoy it more?

Obviously in such a world you'd have some idea the Yankees were spending more, they have more star players with 6+ years of experience, news of A-Rod's condo sale price, and you'd presume that Sabathia, Texiera, etc. didn't go to NY for pay cuts. But you'd have no hard numbers, probably no idea of the magnitude that the Yankees payroll advantage.

Godd@mn, that is a great header, Repoz.

$7.5 mill for a 1B with a 91 OPS+, and who had a 103 OPS+ when he was there last. Moneyball.

Funny how the Moneyball worm turned on him.

Yeah it would have been nice for the cheap SOB to maybe trade for someone like Rollins who would have brought some more fans to the seats and some offense to the lineup

It doesn't make sense that fans would care what a team spends on players

And yet over and over and over, I have seen RSox fans quibble as if some great victory has been achieved if a guy lives up to his contract, and sell their children rather than get caught on the tail end of a guy getting older.

I've even seen people say "The Sox should NEVER offer a 99 mill+ contract again."

October, 1st. 2012.
Henry: "Well Larry, they bought our 'August Surprise' hook, line and sinker...of course going 5-40 has kind of taken the edge off that."

The Rays didn't have the ability or cash to get the most expensive types of free agents - left handed starting pitchers (see Santana, Lee, Sabathia, Wilson). They drafted and developed them in their system for a fraction of the cost.

Go #### yourself, Lew Wolff. You spell both of your names wrong, you stupid piece of ####.

And yet over and over and over, I have seen RSox fans quibble as if some great victory has been achieved if a guy lives up to his contract, and sell their children rather than get caught on the tail end of a guy getting older.

You're crazy. Red Sox fans don't like overpaying because it means there's a budget and the more you spend on bad players the less you can spend on good ones.

You're crazy. Red Sox fans don't like overpaying because it means there's a budget and the more you spend on bad players the less you can spend on good ones.

Eh, I think there's plenty of Red Sox fans that gripe about overpaid players, and not for team budgetary reasons--or because they care about Henry's bank account. It just pisses them off if someone's making a shitton of money and not doing a very good job.

I'm calling it now: Oakland vs. San Francisco in the World Series. Winner gets San Jose.

I'd like to a repeat of '89, though with less earthquakes.

I'd like to a repeat of '89, though with less earthquakes.

fewer

(but who's counting higher than 1?)

There's an easy way to cut the A's off from revenue sharing: let them move to San Jose.

Fine.

I'm setting the over/under on earthquakes at 1/2.

I'm setting the over/under on earthquakes at 1/2.

There's probably an earthquake almost every day on those faults, just very low on the Ricther.

AROM in #11 catches my feelings exactly. I'm generally aware that Michael Young has earned a lot over a long time and not been an extremely good player in the bargain, though my usual response to that is to hope he'll do better. The other Rangers, I really have no idea what their salaries are, or what the total payroll is. I would reckon that the answer is "a lot" and "a lot" in both cases. They seem to have paid a lot of money for Yu Darwish. That's cool. Now play ball.