But people that think new ownership are missing the forest through the trees as baseball’s financial system is the real problem. A new ownership might up payroll to 120 million but would still be at a massive disadvantage
yeah A’s fans have been up to speed for a while. yinzer brains need to come out in bigger numbers. it’s somewhat the same situation. Though, now the young A’s are finding themselves in a situation where they can be a contender in the coming years so it becomes a bit more complex than our situation.
On our end, we have potentially the best pitcher in baseball with absolutely nothing built around him. not to be all doom and gloom, but the pirates don’t have any chance at competing under this ownership. Every move they’ve made over the past few years indicates that. It’s simple logic. they prove time and time again that they’re the devastating combo of, cheap and stupid. You can play moneyball but you can’t be fucking braindead too.
The pirates also seemed to have developed this intangible loser vibe. The bad coaching makes them fundamentally inept, but that’s not always the case for the incessant losing. letting teams come back from an 8 run lead late in the game is what i like to call “loser vibes”. like you can’t make sense of it, the losing is just simply in your dna now. that shit is hard to shake. it’s not the entire reason but it’s also part of it. when ppl lable you a loser and expect to lose, you expect to lose as well. It’s like when ppl fight pitbulls and treat them like animals and then are surprised that they ripped a poodle to bits when they finally release them. it’s hard to shake the loser DNA.
I own a sell the team shirt for the pirates but these billionaires are very petty. I can see them keeping the team out of a spite. Someone indicated that pirates tickets are still pricey. Someone said they’re even pricier than tigers tickets, which is fucking hilarious since they’re the best story in baseball this year.
I could be wrong but it feels like it’s a fuck you to the few fans wearing those shirts and a flex to show us that because of the revenue sharing, they don’t fucking care if we attend or not because that’s not the main source of revenue. Everyone hates socialism unless it’s socialism amongst billionaire team owners.
Find a new team.
How can remove the loser mentality? And all of the negativity that has taken over? It’s very impossible
Also, I really wish people would spend as much time complaining and protesting mega corporations as they do sports teams.
It’s funny too, one of the biggest anti nutting people I’ve ever known was full on MAGA and a corporate lawyer that specialized in union busting…but constantly bitched about bob running the team cheap.
The lack of self awareness was astounding
The “sell the team” people are not paying attention to the actual issues in the MLB. It’s a structural issue:
1. Rich teams want the poor teams to stay poor because it depreciates player salaries. Fewer teams negotiating on free agents means that these rich teams can offer players less money, because the poor teams aren’t going to out-bid them for free agents.
2. Poor teams want the rich teams to stay rich because it gives them an easy excuse to not increase spending, the “we can’t compete with the Dodgers/Mets/Yankees” excuse. It is true that they can’t spend with those rich teams, but they’ll take advantage of that to spend even below what they can.
The league needs complete revenue sharing and a hard salary floor to make the league competitive, but you won’t get that concession from the owners without a salary cap. But because the MLBPA is run by the top players who all are making a ton of money, they’ll kill the idea of the salary cap even though the cap/floor and total revenue sharing would benefit the average player.
I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist about it, but I just find the timing of it all suspicious, just as private equity’s moving into professional sports.
Sell the team.
Bob can make more money if they were a constant playoff team and be a world series contender
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Like half of fanbases want their owner to sell.
But people that think new ownership are missing the forest through the trees as baseball’s financial system is the real problem. A new ownership might up payroll to 120 million but would still be at a massive disadvantage
yeah A’s fans have been up to speed for a while. yinzer brains need to come out in bigger numbers. it’s somewhat the same situation. Though, now the young A’s are finding themselves in a situation where they can be a contender in the coming years so it becomes a bit more complex than our situation.
On our end, we have potentially the best pitcher in baseball with absolutely nothing built around him. not to be all doom and gloom, but the pirates don’t have any chance at competing under this ownership. Every move they’ve made over the past few years indicates that. It’s simple logic. they prove time and time again that they’re the devastating combo of, cheap and stupid. You can play moneyball but you can’t be fucking braindead too.
The pirates also seemed to have developed this intangible loser vibe. The bad coaching makes them fundamentally inept, but that’s not always the case for the incessant losing. letting teams come back from an 8 run lead late in the game is what i like to call “loser vibes”. like you can’t make sense of it, the losing is just simply in your dna now. that shit is hard to shake. it’s not the entire reason but it’s also part of it. when ppl lable you a loser and expect to lose, you expect to lose as well. It’s like when ppl fight pitbulls and treat them like animals and then are surprised that they ripped a poodle to bits when they finally release them. it’s hard to shake the loser DNA.
I own a sell the team shirt for the pirates but these billionaires are very petty. I can see them keeping the team out of a spite. Someone indicated that pirates tickets are still pricey. Someone said they’re even pricier than tigers tickets, which is fucking hilarious since they’re the best story in baseball this year.
I could be wrong but it feels like it’s a fuck you to the few fans wearing those shirts and a flex to show us that because of the revenue sharing, they don’t fucking care if we attend or not because that’s not the main source of revenue. Everyone hates socialism unless it’s socialism amongst billionaire team owners.
Find a new team.
How can remove the loser mentality? And all of the negativity that has taken over? It’s very impossible
Also, I really wish people would spend as much time complaining and protesting mega corporations as they do sports teams.
It’s funny too, one of the biggest anti nutting people I’ve ever known was full on MAGA and a corporate lawyer that specialized in union busting…but constantly bitched about bob running the team cheap.
The lack of self awareness was astounding
The “sell the team” people are not paying attention to the actual issues in the MLB. It’s a structural issue:
1. Rich teams want the poor teams to stay poor because it depreciates player salaries. Fewer teams negotiating on free agents means that these rich teams can offer players less money, because the poor teams aren’t going to out-bid them for free agents.
2. Poor teams want the rich teams to stay rich because it gives them an easy excuse to not increase spending, the “we can’t compete with the Dodgers/Mets/Yankees” excuse. It is true that they can’t spend with those rich teams, but they’ll take advantage of that to spend even below what they can.
The league needs complete revenue sharing and a hard salary floor to make the league competitive, but you won’t get that concession from the owners without a salary cap. But because the MLBPA is run by the top players who all are making a ton of money, they’ll kill the idea of the salary cap even though the cap/floor and total revenue sharing would benefit the average player.
I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist about it, but I just find the timing of it all suspicious, just as private equity’s moving into professional sports.
Sell the team.
Bob can make more money if they were a constant playoff team and be a world series contender