Your 2018 Cleveland Indians

[The Wizard of Moz]

Don't have a rebuttal to literal facts so just hit a blind disagree

I never said it guarantees you win every year

All you did was provide a bunch of garbage that built a strawman


Must have missed that point where I said that the highest payroll is a guarantee of a World Series win!

 

[Urban]

I never said it guarantees you win every year

All you did was provide a bunch of garbage that built a strawman

Must have missed that point where I said that the highest payroll is a guarantee of a World Series win!

So your point is a few teams are at a severe advantage because of their spending abilities- which I agreed with. The Red Sox, Yankees, and Dodgers especially have the advantage to throw money at their problems and avoid lengthy rebuilds. So what? That's not the end all be all in a sport that has much much more parity than basketball or football.

Now that statman is gone for a month, feel free to take the throne as the worst poster in this section.

 

[Real Deal]

Statman is definitely an alter ego pulling our chain with all his fake controversial views on sports

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

Now that statman is gone for a month, feel free to take the throne as the worst poster in this section.

Really just no need for this. Especially with an ignore feature embedded in the forum. If you find my posting that poor, go ahead and put me on ignore as I have now done with you.

 

[Urban]

Thanks for letting me know and sorry I hurt your feelings

 

[Urban]

Yandy optioned to AAA and Upton released

 

[Huber.]

RCF cyber bullying stock is at a all time high. Some feared that with the month ban of Statman it would tank but it's still climbing.

 

[Urban]

RCF cyber bullying stock is at a all time high. Some feared that with the month ban of Statman it would tank but it's still climbing.

OK I'll bite again. Look back at the entire exchange.

He posts his opinion on baseball. I made a perfectly civil response indicating over the past 5 years, ~40% of teams below the average payroll make the playoffs and subsequently make/win the World Series.

He automatically hits disagree and doesn't respond, which is pretty ridiculous considering there really isn't an opinion in my original post. Subsequently calls my post garbage & gets sarcastic. If he's going to create "conflict" out of no where, he shouldn't get so defensive when his posts lacked any substance.

 

[AZ_]

OK I'll bite again. Look back at the entire exchange.

He posts his opinion on baseball. I made a perfectly civil response indicating over the past 5 years, ~40% of teams below the average payroll make the playoffs and subsequently make/win the World Series.

He automatically hits disagree and doesn't respond, which is pretty ridiculous considering there really isn't an opinion in my original post. Subsequently calls my post garbage & gets sarcastic. If he's going to create "conflict" out of no where, he shouldn't get so defensive when his posts lacked any substance.

You have to understand that facts are often misconstrued as "fake news" in the minds of some people these days.

 

[DJTJ]

Yandy optioned to AAA and Upton released

Felt with how Yandy has been raking this spring he’d have made the team...

 

[Urban]

Felt with how Yandy has been raking this spring he’d have made the team...

Just not really a spot for him, it seems like at this point in time they don't want to experiment with him in the OF again.

 

[Chris]

Baseball does seem to have better parity than the NBA, but it really does hurt when your team develops a star and you know he's gone before he even hits his prime.

 

[The Wizard of Moz]

You have to understand that facts are often misconstrued as "fake news" in the minds of some people these days.

I never said what he posted wasn't accurate. I questioned its relevance.

The Yankees were able to trade Chapman, get a very good haul of prospects in exchange, and then turn around and the very next year sign him in free agency because they're one of the only teams with money to sign him. That is the advantage I'm referring to. But oh no, they didn't win the world series last year so that advantage actually didn't happen! Teams like the Yankees can afford to whiff on a major signing. If a small market team gives out a massive contract and the player flops? It severely impacts the team for years

It's just such a lazy way to look at things. A team can have a massive advantage and still not win a world series. Just because you start further up in the race doesn't mean you're guaranteed to always win it. Hey, my measurement of success will literally be based on solely world series wins and an average payroll. It's just shit tier analysis.

How about looking at playoff appearances? How about looking at the top 3 teams in payroll over that time period instead of the average? The entire problem in baseball is with the top 4 or 5 teams not teams 15-6.
He provides one metric

 

[Huber.]

OK I'll bite again. Look back at the entire exchange.

He posts his opinion on baseball. I made a perfectly civil response indicating over the past 5 years, ~40% of teams below the average payroll make the playoffs and subsequently make/win the World Series.

He automatically hits disagree and doesn't respond, which is pretty ridiculous considering there really isn't an opinion in my original post. Subsequently calls my post garbage & gets sarcastic. If he's going to create "conflict" out of no where, he shouldn't get so defensive when his posts lacked any substance.

Hitting the disagree button and not responding as to why you hit it isn't against the site rules. Personal attacks are......Your payroll information didn't include the fact that small market teams struggle to keep teams together and other negatives that come with MLB's salary model.

You have to understand that facts are often misconstrued as "fake news" in the minds of some people these days.

Unnamed sources close to the study say otherwise.

 

[DJTJ]

I never said what he posted wasn't accurate. I questioned its relevance.

The Yankees were able to trade Chapman, get a very good haul of prospects in exchange, and then turn around and the very next year sign him in free agency because they're one of the only teams with money to sign him. That is the advantage I'm referring to. But oh no, they didn't win the world series last year so that advantage actually didn't happen! Teams like the Yankees can afford to whiff on a major signing. If a small market team gives out a massive contract and the player flops? It severely impacts the team for years

It's just such a lazy way to look at things. A team can have a massive advantage and still not win a world series. Just because you start further up in the race doesn't mean you're guaranteed to always win it. Hey, my measurement of success will literally be based on solely world series wins and an average payroll. It's just shit tier analysis.

How about looking at playoff appearances? How about looking at the top 3 teams in payroll over that time period instead of the average? The entire problem in baseball is with the top 4 or 5 teams not teams 15-6.
He provides one metric

Aren’t we the best AL team in the last five years?