Great take on Dodger spending by Cubs manager Craig Counsell

Great take on Dodger spending by Cubs manager Craig Counsell
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  1. Look most people actually inside baseball don’t give a flying fuck what the Dodgers are doing. They have no real problems with it at all. I guarantee most, if not all, of the owners aren’t at all upset about what the Dodgers are doing because the Dodgers being the new villain, the new Evil Empire drives interest and revenues to the sport. The Dodgers are now a powerhouse global brand, probable surpassing the Yankees now. Every sport needs a powerhouse global brand for marketing and revenue purposes. Baseball truly has that now. The owners understand this is good for the sport and for them. Revenues, viewership, ratings, and interest is up across the board and the Dodgers are a big reason for that. The Dodgers bring in more and more casual fans. They bring in casual fans to either join the root for the Dodgers bandwagon or to join the hate on/root against the Dodgers bandwagon. Either way it’s great for MLB. It’s only dumb talking heads, journalists, and jealous fans who have a problem with what the Dodgers are doing.

  3. also, every owner, gm, manager towel attendant and shitter cleaner would be happy to be in that position financially and would do the same thing to win in a heartbeat if the economics were reversed.

  6. I mean no one bitched at the angels for signing Hamilton CJ Wilson and Pujols during a three year period lol why complain now

  7. I had never heard Craig Counsell in an interview before. I didn’t expect his voice to be that deep.

  8. Look at the Phillies and Mets. Before the Dodgers started building they all were signing players every year. Problem is, those players never paid off. The Dodgers have signed the right people and on top of it have one of the best farm systems. They develop their own players, make smart trades for veterans people are nickle and diming, and offering short term contracts to players who CHOOSE to go there.

  9. The truth is. Every team has the same rules. They are being outplayed. Not everyone has the same budget but plenty have deep enough pockets. Even with all that Toronto easily could have won. There are no guarantees in baseball especially so you make bets and the dodgers make big bets and have had outsized results.

  10. The Dodgers receive gigantic amounts of revenue that other teams can’t compete with, from international sources, such as Japan and Korea. This helps them afford all these contacts and they earned it. This started 30 years ago when they had Chan Ho Park and Hideo Nomo. And the LAD have consistently signed Far East Players since then: Ryu, Maeda, Kuroda, Saito, Darvish, heck even their Managwr Dave Roberts is half Japanese. Years of cultivating this international far east fan baethave led to this. Other teams can’t compete. The dodgers have have nailed this for 30 years, and Far East greats want to come and play for the dodgers. It doesn’t happen overnight. Dodgers spent 30’years building their international brand and are now benefiting from players choosing them, to far east generated revenue. As someone said above, if it was east everyone would do it.

  11. Absolutely correct. Dodgers and Angels are in the same city, look at the difference. Shohei can tell you more.

  12. I appreciate his take but damn, he makes me think of Niedermeyer from Animal House when he talks.

  13. Fans are deluded if they think the owners give a shit about what Dodgers spend. The cap has nothing to do with “competitiveness” of the league and everything to do with the fact that the owners don’t want to spend. The more Dodgers spend the more the Nuttings of the world are happy because they are getting more money. People act like the the hundreds of millions of luxury tax and revenue sharing is not directly going into the other teams.

    Its not owner vs owner. Its owners vs players. Thinking otherwise is the height of delusion.

     Also, its baffling how much the fans are hoping for a lockout. Killing the momentum of the game is the worst that could happen. Its like they learned nothing from 1994 at all. There is not going to be another homerun chase to reignite the interest among fans.

  14. The Dodgers have had one of the highest, or the highest, payrolls for over a decade now. When the title was stolen in ’17 and they lost in ’18, everyone and their brother was ridiculing the team for spending a ton of money only to lose out in the postseason. Even after the 2020 victory, those fans and some media were still laughing at the team for paying a lot for what they say is a “Mickey Mouse” title.

    Now that the team is winning multiple championships they are all ENVIOUS. They would LOVE to be in our position as fans. Would they complain if their team paid 700 mil for Ohtani, 325 for Yamamoto, etc.? HELL NO. All the additional hate and crying comes from good players wanting to join us and winning World Series titles.

    To be honest, when fans/media from other big budget teams complain, I feel that they are disrespecting their players and are already emotionally losing hope of their team winning a title. They already feel that their favorite team has no chance to compete against the Dodgers. So they hate on LA even more.

    As a life-long Dodger fan, I never hated any big name player for choosing another team for whatever reason over the Dodgers. Even when Seager chose Texas, I wished him well and didn’t feel anything worse for the Rangers for paying him a lot of money. Even when the Padres, D-backs or Giants got a big FA, My hatred for those teams didn’t intensify because of the new player, no matter how much they paid.

  17. We’re ok with rich people having nicer things. Why shouldn’t rich teams have nicer things?

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