Are the Dodgers ruining baseball? ‘There are some owners that have concerns’

[Votto]

PALM BEACH, Fla. — "Are the Dodgers ruining baseball?" asked a reporter after winning yet another playoff game while making it look effortless.

“I don’t think so,” said Mark Walter, the Dodgers’ controlling owner.

"Let’s ask someone not wearing a Dodgers polo shirt," complained the reporter. "Are the Dodgers ruining baseball Rob?"

“I don’t agree with that,” said Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball. "They make a fine World Series winner year after year after year after year, and look, I am not wearing a Dodger polo shirt. There, end of story. Next question."

"But is spending a gazillion dollars more on a baseball team too much money and does it allow parity in MLB,", asked another reporter.

"I can assure you, money has nothing to do with the fact that the Dodgers have won the pennate the last 15 years straight. Now can we move forward with these questions instead of beating a dead horse with this line of questioning."

"But what a about the fact that the Dodgers spend more on the tarp covering their field than the Florida Marlins do on their entire team?", asked another reporter.

"Look!" barked the commissioner, "That is a damned fine tarp they have at Dodger stadium, so I think you owe them an apology for these rude and Un sportsman like kinds of questions."

"Thanks Commissioner", said Dodger owner Mark Walter.

"You're welcome son".

 

[MarathonMike]

How many MVPs do the Dodgers have on their roster, like 8? Parity, Shmarity.

 

[BackAgain]

Not sure the satire here is “political.”

If MLB is concerned at all with keeping its fan base (and perhaps with putting fans’ asses in stadium seats) it would have to lower ticket prices. That’s hard to do when some of these baseball superstars are making close to $400 Million to play the game for a few seasons.

And the contract with television outlets for game rights is also fouled up. Not just with endless ads and merchandising, but also with ads for sports betting. Plus, there is no longer any valid or coherent reason to have “blackout” rules. (My example as a lifetime Yankees fan is that I can’t even see games on MLB Network when the Yankees play either Baltimore or the freaking Nationals. I live in the Carolinas. It’s not like I’m gonna go to Orioles Park at Camden Yards to see the game. So what purpose do the blackout rules serve anymore? )

Greed (contrary to Michael Douglas’ line) is not always “good.”

 

[Blaster]

MLB has a serious problem with competitive balance. There should be a salary cap in place like in the NFL.

 

[Votto]

MLB has a serious problem with competitive balance. There should be a salary cap in place like in the NFL.

I just loved the Dodger manager after the game that sent them to yet another World Series.

He looked square into the camera and said that he is tired of people crying about the Dodgers ruining baseball by their incessant winning and said that he will take them to a World Series next year and the year after that and the year after that.

I mean, WTF?

How messed up do you have to be to even say something like that.

Idiot.

But as we all know, the Left destroys everything it touches, and baseball is no exception.

Baseball is about as diverse in terms of parity as political parties are in California.

Yea, they destroyed democracy in California as well.

 

[tyroneweaver]

I play golf with a huge Dodger fan.
I told him I hate the dodgers so bad I voted for Adam Schiff instead of Steve Garvey

 

[leftwinger]

MLB has a serious problem with competitive balance. There should be a salary cap in place like in the NFL.

MLB players want no cap. But they want a floor. Lol!

Its pathetic. Worse than Stienbrenner 80s'90s'.

Word is another Billion dollar Japanese star us headed to LA.

 

[leftwinger]

I just loved the Dodger manager after the game that sent them to yet another World Series.

He looked square into the camera and said that he is tired of people crying about the Dodgers ruining baseball by their incessant winning and said that he will take them to a World Series next year and the year after that and the year after that.

I mean, WTF?

How messed up do you have to be to even say something like that.

Idiot.

But as we all know, the Left destroys everything it touches, and baseball is no exception.

Baseball is about as diverse in terms of parity as political parties are in California.

Yea, they destroyed democracy in California as well.

Took him 10-15 years but he finally learned. Regular season is practice. Playoffs is everything. He actually left some pitchers in past the 6th! No more KerChoke out of the BP getting hammered by WC teams.

Roberts is now a genius.

 

[Votto]

Took him 10-15 years but he finally learned. Regular season is practice. Playoffs is everything. He actually left some pitchers in past the 6th! No more KerChoke out of the BP getting hammered by WC teams.

Roberts is now a genius.

I remember the announcer saying that the Brewers had not faced the starting pitching of the Dodgers during the regular season, who were their best pitchers.

This did two things, it prevented the Brewers to gain familiarity with their pitching for the post season, and it decreased their regular season wins, which is why the Brewers ended up having the most wins during the regular season.

This diminished the number of eyebrows raising had the Dodgers won something like 120 games, or some other ridiculous number, and almost sweep their way through the playoffs.

They should probably drop a game or two during the World Series just to make it look as though they have some level of competition.

 

[Anathema]

MLB has a serious problem with competitive balance. There should be a salary cap in place like in the NFL.

No!!! Hell NO!!!

The salary cap has ruined the NFL and NHL. Sports are not, never have been and never should be about “Parity”. It’s about destroying your opponent by any means necessary.

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Spent a lot of Saturdays and Sundays in the left field bleachers growing up. My dad was a huge Dodger fan, lived and breathed Dodgers.

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

The answer is the luxury tax. But enough owners don't want to pay "too" much of it, so it has no teeth. Teams 6-10 in spending have a chance, why tax themselves in the seasons in which they "go for it"? Just making the playoffs gives you a chance.

Dodgers go back to back.