Admiral Rockwell Tory
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I think you're onto something, which is the main point.MLB's problem? It's boring! It's three minutes of action crammed into 3 hours!
Yup there are the few money teams like the Yanks, Dodgers and Bosox and most years the rest are also runs. Is it the Marlins that wins and thens sells off the players?
- Though I prefer to write about inspirational topics, I feel after nearly a half century of watching one MLB team wallow in mediocrity, it’s time to speak up. MLB is slowly slipping into irreverence, due to many factors, the example below is the biggest one, and this applies to the majority of MLB teams:
I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest my whole life, and love sports. I have learned however there is one constant in MLB that never changes, and it is this: The Seattle Mariners will purchase just enough talent to call themselves a major league team, knowing legions of devoted fans will unfailingly file into the ball park, sit on their large rumps, with their baseball caps on, talking about ERA’s and batting averages, only to watch the home team finish out of the playoff hunt year after year.
Once a season is over Mariner ownership can be counted on to issue the same tired old talking points i.e. “they have some great young talent coming up” With the exception of a few teams in the 90’s that’s been the story of the 45+ year old Mariner franchise. Mention this fact to any baseball fan, and you’ll be saturated with one statistic after another on everything from slugging percentage to RBI's, this is because baseball fans can’t see past their stats, and realize corporate ownership of baseball teams is not about winning - it’s about money. Behind all those baseball stats. lurks an ugly truth: Mariner ownership (like most teams) doesn’t care if they win. For decades, Mariner ownership has kept their eye only on the bottom line of their financial spreadsheets. Like many, I stopped following MLB a few years ago, and have not missed it at all.
This just in: Mariner owners are soon expected to issue a statement that “they have some great young talent coming up”….
MLB's problem? It's boring! It's three minutes of action crammed into 3 hours!
- Though I prefer to write about inspirational topics, I feel after nearly a half century of watching one MLB team wallow in mediocrity, it’s time to speak up. MLB is slowly slipping into irreverence, due to many factors, the example below is the biggest one, and this applies to the majority of MLB teams:
I’ve lived in the Pacific Northwest my whole life, and love sports. I have learned however there is one constant in MLB that never changes, and it is this: The Seattle Mariners will purchase just enough talent to call themselves a major league team, knowing legions of devoted fans will unfailingly file into the ball park, sit on their large rumps, with their baseball caps on, talking about ERA’s and batting averages, only to watch the home team finish out of the playoff hunt year after year.
Once a season is over Mariner ownership can be counted on to issue the same tired old talking points i.e. “they have some great young talent coming up” With the exception of a few teams in the 90’s that’s been the story of the 45+ year old Mariner franchise. Mention this fact to any baseball fan, and you’ll be saturated with one statistic after another on everything from slugging percentage to RBI's, this is because baseball fans can’t see past their stats, and realize corporate ownership of baseball teams is not about winning - it’s about money. Behind all those baseball stats. lurks an ugly truth: Mariner ownership (like most teams) doesn’t care if they win. For decades, Mariner ownership has kept their eye only on the bottom line of their financial spreadsheets. Like many, I stopped following MLB a few years ago, and have not missed it at all.
This just in: Mariner owners are soon expected to issue a statement that “they have some great young talent coming up”….
My Phillies are in the same boat we are looking at, Ten years without contending, but our owner has tried!
I sympathize with the Mariners fan
other teams in the league are just a pathetic and dedicated only to making money for the ownership
the Rangers, Marlins, Rockies and Diamondbacks to name a few
but its like the Cowboys in football
as long as the fanbase keeps making a profit for the owners nothing will change
Greed is why all sports will die…
so very true. That totally destroyed the integrity of MLB baseball, sadly the ONLY thing thats worth anything about seeing a game is going to their stadiums and seeing the ballpark. Its only when a small market team like the Rays comes along and makes it to the world series that I ever watch it anymore.The last union strike negotiations created rich teams and poor teams.
Essentially, the players run the roost and can make as much as they want where they want. So now if you are good enough, you can be a Yankee who pays more for their bull pen than what the Devil Rays pay for their entire team.
This way everyone is happy. Players make as much as they are able and the media is happy because the only teams making it to the World Series are big media teams in large cities with unlimited amounts of money that give them good ratings.
The only ones left out in the cold are fans of small market teams. But who cares about them?
And we are wasting Bryce in his prime! Last year he sounded off on the 2020 season and said he regretted not going to the dodgers. I can't blame the guy. No one desires a championship ring more than him!The Phillies are rich. That is what makes it brutal.
This isn't new. The Indians and the KC A's were the Yankees "farm teams" in the 50s. The St. Louis Browns would often sell their better players for cash.so very true. That totally destroyed the integrity of MLB baseball, sadly the ONLY thing thats worth anything about seeing a game is going to their stadiums and seeing the ballpark. Its only when a small market team like the Rays comes along and makes it to the world series that I ever watch it anymore.
you are so correct,the movie MONEYBALL is sadly the way baseball is these days and the way MLB operates has not changed sense then.,
these small market teams just draft players to develope them for the big market teams now.FUCK MLB baseball.
116 wins and then choked to the YankeesThe one year I believe they had over 110 wins, I believed that was going to be their championship season. There are a lot of suffering clubs. Sports needs to be blue collar again. And that means a major shakeup on how we all view it.
Baseball is not a good sport to be over commercialized. Other have been infected with games seeming to be at least a half hour longer and more in Football then a few decades ago. The NFL though seems to have blurred extra time by making it a much more offensive scoring game.As spectator sports go, there is something that could happen on every single pitch that could impact the outcome of the game. Football same thing.
in high level soccer, 98% of the time, the ball is so far from the goal that the only meaningful thing that could happen is an injury to a player. You could show the "highlights" of the entire quadrennial World Cup tournament in ten minutes. With time left over for a few commercials.