More Baseball Teams in New York!

rhinomagic

Fighting Hellfish wrote:

yeah, it has nothing do with the market they're in. It's that these owners know that they will collect $70 million in baseball welfare via the TV deal and revenue sharing. Rather than using some of that money on the team, they just pocket it and are content with having a perennial celler dweller. They should change the system: if you don't spend your baseball welfare money on your team, you don't get it next year. It's sickening that a team like the Marlins, or Royals, will collect $70 million from baseball (mostly from television deals and the Yankees) and have payrolls of less than $15 million

Anyone ever read Bob Costas' book Fair Ball?

It's a few years old, but Bob suggests a salary cap for both the ceiling and the floor. He would mandate a minimum club salary in order to force cheap owners to put competitive teams on the field. It's an idea that really should be implemented to keep franchises from profiting off the overall popularity of the league without investing in their own local product.

I think the Rays will succeed in their bid for a new stadium. The Buccaneers and the Lightning both got their stadiums with help from the people of Hillsborough County. I don't think Pinellas County will be any different in the Rays' case.

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carbon436

THe rays are assembling a stellar minor league system, so are the royals....it's just keepiing the players once they develop

brain of c

go elmira.