Interesting Goalie Pad Concept

[DeltaOne81]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote DeltaOne81]After spending half a billion in the offseason, I'm sure the Yankees kept a few mill in reserve to make sure the calls went their way :-P[/quote]Yeah, but how much did they have to pay to get the Twins to botch up their base running?[/quote]

That was free. All they needed was see that the Twins were playing a former Mets prospect, and the baserunning blunder was in the bank.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote RichH][quote Jim Hyla]Maybe it would be cheaper to just pay off all the other owners, rather than to buy other owners ballplayers.::uhoh::[/quote]

Gawd, I promised myself I would never get baited into a baseball discussion on this forum again (and this being the hockey sub-forum of all places), so I'll try to just brush the subject on the business side.[/quote]

I hope you don't think I was against the Yankees. I hoped my first line

Yeah, but how much did they have to pay to get the Twins to botch up their base running?

would give it away that I thought the Twins did enough to lose by themselves.

In summary I agree with you.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

FWIW, 5 of the playoff teams are in the top 10 of payroll spending:  Yanks, Red Sox, Angels, Phils, and Dodgers.  You want a consistent winner, you spend the money.  You want the occasional hot season, so you can then sell your players for a profit, you go low buck.

There's no question which type of team I prefer to root for.

[RichH]

[quote Jim Hyla]I hope you don't think I was against the Yankees.[/quote]

Oh, no.  That wasn't my point at all...in fact I recognized and enjoyed your comment.  I don't really care who is fer/agin whatever teams, since this is a CU hockey board.  The reason I quoted your post was because I was going to make a snarky one-liner about the luxury tax and revenue sharing, but instead fell on a soapbox instead.

Upon further review, my post should have been in reply to DeltaOne81.

[Rita]

[quote RichH][quote Jim Hyla]I hope you don't think I was against the Yankees.[/quote]

Oh, no.  That wasn't my point at all...in fact I recognized and enjoyed your comment.  I don't really care who is fer/agin whatever teams, since this is a CU hockey board.  The reason I quoted your post was because I was going to make a snarky one-liner about the luxury tax and revenue sharing, but instead fell on a soapbox instead.

Upon further review, my post should have been in reply to DeltaOne81.[/quote]

Will the league office be sending out an official letter of apology? **]

[KeithK]

[quote Rita][quote RichH][quote Jim Hyla]I hope you don't think I was against the Yankees.[/quote]

Oh, no.  That wasn't my point at all...in fact I recognized and enjoyed your comment.  I don't really care who is fer/agin whatever teams, since this is a CU hockey board.  The reason I quoted your post was because I was going to make a snarky one-liner about the luxury tax and revenue sharing, but instead fell on a soapbox instead.

Upon further review, my post should have been in reply to DeltaOne81.[/quote]

Will the league office be sending out an official letter of apology? **][/quote]
I suspect they will in 2014.  Oh sorry, wrong thread.

[ugarte]

[quote RichH]1) Big Stein is worth $1.6B. The Pohlad family of the poor David vs. Goliath Twinkies has a worth of $3.6B. The Nationals' owner: $3.5B. (All according to Forbes).

2) The Yankees post an operating deficit just about every year. ... and enough interest to make revenue positive team-owned cable networks like YES[/quote]

The relative worth of the owners is a bit of a red herring when the guy crying poverty gets to abbreviate the value with a "B." It is further a red herring when you consider that none of the owners (except the eternally stupid Tom Hicks) dip into their personal piggy banks to run the team. (Caveat: while Minnesota is a relatively poor market for baseball, I'll concede the point that Carl Pohlad is a tightwad of historic proportions and the Twins could spend more money if they wanted to win road games in the playoffs.)

The Yankees only have an operating deficit because they converted the gobs of money that they used to receive for local broadcasting rights and converted them into a network that is off-balance sheet entity AND a license to print money. As you said, YES is a function of spending money to make money but the Yankees have ALWAYS been more profitable than the competition because they are blessed to be the big dog in a market that once did, and easily could, support three teams.

The Yankees spend their money more wisely than other rich teams and that is to their credit as well (look to Queens for proof that money can be spent very poorly) but less well-heeled teams looking to yield the same operating profits will be spending significantly less money. You can chip away at the edges but you will get nowhere trying to significantly undermine the huge advantage that the Yankees bring to bear over most if not all of the league.

[Jim Hyla]

[quote KeithK][quote Rita][quote RichH][quote Jim Hyla]I hope you don't think I was against the Yankees.[/quote]

Oh, no.  That wasn't my point at all...in fact I recognized and enjoyed your comment.  I don't really care who is fer/agin whatever teams, since this is a CU hockey board.  The reason I quoted your post was because I was going to make a snarky one-liner about the luxury tax and revenue sharing, but instead fell on a soapbox instead.

Upon further review, my post should have been in reply to DeltaOne81.[/quote]

Will the league office be sending out an official letter of apology? **][/quote]
I suspect they will in 2014.  Oh sorry, wrong thread.[/quote]But I thought the world was going to die in 2012.::help::

[RichH]

[quote Jim Hyla][quote KeithK][quote Rita][quote RichH][quote Jim Hyla]I hope you don't think I was against the Yankees.[/quote]

Oh, no.  That wasn't my point at all...in fact I recognized and enjoyed your comment.  I don't really care who is fer/agin whatever teams, since this is a CU hockey board.  The reason I quoted your post was because I was going to make a snarky one-liner about the luxury tax and revenue sharing, but instead fell on a soapbox instead.

Upon further review, my post should have been in reply to DeltaOne81.[/quote]

Will the league office be sending out an official letter of apology? **][/quote]
I suspect they will in 2014.  Oh sorry, wrong thread.[/quote]But I thought the world was going to die in 2012.::help::[/quote]

Then it would behoove Cornell Hockey to win in Detroit *this year*

[cth95]

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[Josh '99]

[quote RichH]Owners of teams you see often in the playoffs (and those with the higher payrolls): Yankees, Red Sox, Angels, Mets on the other hand chose to build their brands and deliver a quality product to their paying customers. [/quote]Oh sure, kick me when I'm down disgusted so disgusted with ownership and management that I've stopped paying attention to my team entirely, why don't you?  :-P