It's official. My beloved Yankees have aquired arguably the best all around player in baseball. I cannot wait for the MLB season to start. Our 3-4-5 batters in the lineup will be without equal IMNSHO. Alex Rodriqiez is a stud hitter that may go down in history as one of the greatest baseball players ever. I dont know if there are any Red Sox fans here at AFN but if there are....man, is this gonna be a great season. The Red Sox are great and the Yankees are great. And i cant wait for the two to get it on.

If you're a sox fan, you would love to hate HaVoK right now:D

IMO, Boston blew it with A-rod. I think the citizens of Boston deserve an explanation as to why A-Rod is not coming. It'll be an interesting season when the sox and yanks get together. I doubt the sox will have anything going for them this year, but when the rivals clash, expect fans to be flying over the Green Monster in total disgust to yankee fans...should be something worth watching.

I hate the Yankees, but I'm glad they got A-Rod. Either A-Rod or Jeter's defensive prowess will be completely wasted, thanks to the Yankees' un-fair advantage giving them a higher percentage of money to spend than any other major professional team. So one of them will rot at the DH position. Gogogogo big bux! I honestly hope the Yankees win every single world series. Perhaps then MLB will reform how money is distributed.

Baseball has three different levels of richness......there's the rich, the very rich, and george steinbrenner.

Originally posted by silverbulletkc
Baseball has three different levels of richness......there's the rich, the very rich, and george steinbrenner. The closest thing to a saint that i know...:D

Anyone else think it's really sad that the Sox are calling for a salary cap now? Here they are with the second highest salary in MLB and now they're calling for a cap because they couldn't land A-Rod.

I do think MLB needs a cap, I just think the Sox are being really whiny.

Originally posted by LionelHutz
Anyone else think it's really sad that the Sox are calling for a salary cap now? Here they are with the second highest salary in MLB and now they're calling for a cap because they couldn't land A-Rod.

I do think MLB needs a cap, I just think the Sox are being really whiny. You know i agree with the Sox assessment Lionel. I dont know if a salary cap is the answer for baseball or not.

One the one hand i am a Yankees fan and i say "Hell no". On the other, i am a baseball fan and i can see where the uneven playing field would cause baseball to lose fans. However, there are a lot of owners in MLB who could spend a lot more money than what they do to compete... they just choose not to spend their money.

Ultimately, i have to ask the question, "Is it good for baseball"? (the trade) And to that, i have to say that a lot of people are talking baseball today and the season hasnt even started.

if players could play for the love of the game and not for the money, we wouldn't need a salary cap

This is totally ridiculous. Baseball needs revenue sharing. NOW! I bet the Bosox are pissed as hell.

Originally posted by THE REF
This is totally ridiculous. Baseball needs revenue sharing. NOW! I bet the Bosox are pissed as hell. There already is revenue sharing. It has been given the nickname "Yankee Tax". Last year the Mr. Steinbrenner forked over about 40 million extra dollars to be shared among other teams in MLB.


And why should the Bosox be "pissed as hell"? They have the second largest payroll in baseball at roughly 130 million per year. So they are contributing to this crazy spending spree as well.

That's not revunue sharing it's chump change. How are small market teams supposed to compete?

Originally posted by THE REF
That's not revunue sharing it's chump change. How are small market teams supposed to compete? Not to be arguementative but you did say the BoSux errrr.....BoSox should be mad. ANd they have the 6th largest market in baseball. Not to mention the fact that N.Y. shares its market with another team. Why cant people understand that Mr. Steinbrenner doesnt mind spending money to field a winner? Also, John Henry, the new owner of the BoSox is a billionaire. If he wanted to compete in baseball, he could spend as much as Mr. Steinbrenner. He chooses money over winning and still wants to bitch and cry about how "unfair" it is for the Yankees to have unlimited captial.

A truly small market team would be a team like Milwaulkee. Bud Selig owns them and he is so tight he squeaks when he walks. Another example of a rich owner who chooses not to invest his own money into his business and just wants to sit on the sideline and bitch and moan. BTW....the teams that benefited from baseballs luxury tax... What do you think the owners of these teams did with their increased revenue from the Yankee tax? Do you think they invested it in their teams? Every single owner stuck the extra couple million in their pockets, thats what they did. So maybe you should look a little deeper into this issue before you go blaming a team that is breaking no rules to compete.

Sorry you mis understood my post. I wasn't referring to the bosox as a small market team. When I mentioned that they were probably pissed it was due to their deal not being blessed by mlb like the Yankees deal was. Spending that kind of money to buy a competitve team year after year has done nothing but ruin the game.

Originally posted by THE REF
When I mentioned that they were probably pissed it was due to their deal not being blessed by mlb like the Yankees deal was. Spending that kind of money to buy a competitve team year after year has done nothing but ruin the game. Actually, MLB was ALL in favor of the deal between A-Rod and Boston. It was the players union that struck the deal down because Boston wanted too many concessions from A-Rod. Bottom line is, Boston allowed 15 million dollars to keep them from getting one of the best players in baseball today.

And i respect your opinon about the Yankees ruining the game by overspending for their team, but i respectfully disagree. While i would like to see more competitive balance in MLB, i do not think blaming the Yankees is going to acomplish that goal. I think that MLB should make all the money that small market teams get from the luxury tax go toward aquiring new players for those teams. Just handing them money for nothing with no stipulations is a payoff, IMO. And that is not good for the game either.

We are talking two different things here. The luxury tax and revenue sharing are not one in the same. The luxury tax amounts to chump change being handed out. Revenue sharing would be all teams share in gate receipts, media rights and what have you.

Originally posted by THE REF
We are talking two different things here. The luxury tax and revenue sharing are not one in the same. The luxury tax amounts to chump change being handed out. Revenue sharing would be all teams share in gate receipts, media rights and what have you. No, we're talking about the same thing. I was just combining the two.


"Just last year, the Yankees paid almost $53 million into the revenue-sharing pot. They dumped another $11 million into Bud Selig's luxury-tax account. " -Jason Stark ESPN News




I was just a little too conservative on my financial figures. As you can see, Mr. Steinbrenner spent 64 Million dollars towards helping the supposed "less fortunate" franchises in professional baseball. LMAO...baseball owners are some of the most unfortunate orphans ever, huh?

There's no revenue sharing in baseball that amounts to anything and 11 million divided amoungst the rest of the teams? YIPEE! Let's throw a party.