Baseball - October 2007

Could it happen? If Torre is fired (I believe he and Posada are very close) , the Mets don't resign LoDuca and Omar Minaya throws a ton of money at Jorge, maybe it could. How would Met fans feel about that?

2007-10-10 03:57:45 · 14 answers · asked by Mr Stats 1

Ok, my first question garnered some confusion, so let me clarify. Athletes and salaries, I'm throwing out the idea of pay for performance salaries. You all seem to counter argue that everybody would swing for the fences if they were paid on stats. Again, try to think outside the box.

Each player starts with a base salary of $250,000 (higher than 90% of the American population to begin with anyway -- and we can live off it, so can they).

First would be team bonuses (in order to prevent people from giving up at bats and sacrificing themselves) Win your division each player receives a $100,000 bonus, and etc...

Second would be individual bonuses, not just HR and RBI, but overall performance. You look at sac bunts and sac flies, avg with RISP. You are concerned that with this type of pay structure, all athletes would swing for the fences, but this would also increase their strikeout rate, making them less valuable, it would also decrease the teams wins by being selfish.

2007-10-10 03:52:25 · 7 answers · asked by r u serious? 3

Why should G.S. expext to win right now. Does having the biggest payroll mean you should win right now?

I am sick of this reasoning...The reason it is the highest payroll is because he is over paying a lot of his talent. How did that investment on Roger Clemens pay off? Just because he shells out the money does not mean it is going to be the best team.

When they won the 4 World Series they had a perfect combination of home grown talent and free agents IN THEIR PRIME.

G.S. and Cashman has put these teams together and made bad deals. But I guess it is easier to just blame Torre insead of looking in a mirror on who made these bad deals.

If just spending money made good teams the Knicks would be champions. but we all know that the team they have is not woth what they are paying.

The same can be said for the Yankees.

2007-10-10 03:42:01 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

During the Mike & the Mad Dog show yesterday Franseca & Russo where moaning & groaning over the times of the playoff games in Arizona & Colorado.. They where screaming that why couldn't they put the games in the afternoon East Coast time so that those fans in the East Coast who care to watch have a chance to watch it. What Makes Fransesca & Russo think that the West Coat teams have to set the time of the games to appease them? If they want to watch it so bad stay awake for the game is my opinion.

2007-10-10 03:38:56 · 7 answers · asked by Scooter_loves_his_dad 7

Personally I think baseball needs a commissioner that will start taking care of the fans---for "the best interest of baseball".

We all know selig is a moron, we need a commissioner who back the sport for the fans.
I'd love to see the DH gone, inter-league go away, and please can we bring back sunday afternoon double headers? A real bona fide double header! You do remember those, dont you? 2 games for the price of one?
And get rid of Sunday NIGHT games!!!

We need a commissioner who will stand up to Donald fehr & Scott Boras! He needs to tell them we are doing this for the fans---NOT THE PLAYERS!

2007-10-10 03:33:26 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous

Personally I think Rogers should be retained as some kind of coach, and that Jones should go. I'd love to see Zumaya as the closer in 2008. Your thoughts?

2007-10-10 03:23:22 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-10 03:12:27 · 4 answers · asked by doublea1126 1

it's entitled money can't buy glove (or championships) at first I thought it was going to be a good story about how teams buy their way into the plaoyffs and series but of course it's Yahoo so it was the opposite. He was trying to justify it buy saying since some mid to small market teams made it into the playoffs this year that there shouldn't be a salary cap basically is what he was saying.

I wish it didn't erase my response I sent to him.

What do you think about it?

2007-10-10 03:12:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous

2 things annoy me. One(Fox is especially guilty of this) When they feel the need to tell us 100 times that a celebrity is at the game as if I'm supposed to care. Second when the announcer has to always say the first pitch is sponsored by Sprint or this homerum was sponsored by Toyota this caught stealing moment is sponsored by DHL & so on.

2007-10-10 03:06:18 · 22 answers · asked by Scooter_loves_his_dad 7

I realize that Dreyton McClain has a cheap rep, but wouldn't it be great for A-Rod to Opt out of his Yankee deal (rats seem to be jumping ship there - Rocket, Skipper, Andy, Posada, Rivera, etc.) and sign with the Astros? That guy would hit a homer over the railroad tracks and outta there about every other time at a home field bat....'Stros are going to need to do something now that the killer B's are gone. Besides his price tag, why NOT A-Rod?

2007-10-10 02:59:23 · 17 answers · asked by Kendall W 1

They really need a left handed bat and a shortstop...and please dont say A-Rod! Although he always has a good season he chokes in October, and The Tigers are looking to win in October...that wont happen with A-Rod on our team.

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20071009&content_id=2258480&vkey=news_det&fext=.jsp&c_id=det

2007-10-10 02:58:20 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am a HUGE Red Sox fan, and although I am far from an expert I think I know my stuff pretty well. I am constantly running into men that assume that because I am a woman that I only like baseball for the "cute" guys!!! It iratates me so bad, a couple of weeks ago I was out for a drink and this looser in a red sox hat noticed I was watching the game and tried to talk to me about them and HE had no idea what he was talking about!

2007-10-10 02:56:47 · 13 answers · asked by lindsey4706 3

You know, dig him up and put him in the dugout. He would still be more lively than Joe Torre.

2007-10-10 02:39:26 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-10-10 02:22:20 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

then he only needs about 24-28 home runs per year to break it. Plus, he's gonna hit like 40 for the next few seasons so...

Barring injury, wouldn't you think he's a lock to break it??

2007-10-10 02:17:46 · 12 answers · asked by FromTheTop 1

In response to the Yankees third consecutive first round exit from the playoffs, everybody is asking who should take the heat. Is it the manager, the general manager, etc...

But, look at this in a different way. In the real world, in the jobs you and I work in every day, if we show up to work and fail to perform to our boss' expectations, we get fired. Shouldn't the players be held accountable? I know this would never happen because they are union and under MLBPA protection, and I know at times if a player underperforms he can be traded or cut, but looking at it in the simplest of ways, I think that if players knew their jobs were on the line with failed performances, they could get fired, these players would then always come to the ballpark and give 100% every day just like we do in our workplace.

I think the players are way to coddled these days, which means they don't seem to care whether they win or lose, regardless they will collect a pay check.

2007-10-10 02:14:22 · 14 answers · asked by r u serious? 3

I don't care about Joe Torre anymore or the NY soap opera. There is still baseball to play, so stop dominating ESPN with this crap. We have the whole off-season to blow all of this out of proportion.

2007-10-10 01:55:48 · 8 answers · asked by Carnac 4

2007-10-10 01:26:43 · 7 answers · asked by That One Guy 1

Shouldnt Cashman take the majority of the heat. He assembled this team. He and Georgie boy are the ones that went and got an aging arm and did nothing to solidify a bad pitching staff. I am amazed Torre even got this team to the playoffs. Does anyone else think Cashman plays a bigger part in this and that Steinbrenner needs to seriously look in the mirror rather than just spending millions on overpriced players.

2007-10-10 00:33:51 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

some look to be school age.or does the home team supply batboys for the visiting team?how much do they get paid?always been curious about this.

2007-10-10 00:12:46 · 4 answers · asked by mojo569 4

2007-10-09 21:33:05 · 20 answers · asked by wiltherealslimshadypleeseshutup 2

texas owes about 22 million total, why cant u just extend his contract for 1 year for 50 million? in that case, arod gets 25x3+50 million, thats still over 30 mil per year.
isnt this the best scenario, arod gets around what he wants, over 30 mil per year and can still test free agency when hes 36 and get a huge contract.

2007-10-09 18:37:48 · 8 answers · asked by yinxzon 2

Don't care who's your team, who are you rooting for
Rockies or D-Backs
Indians or Red Sox

2007-10-09 18:06:14 · 9 answers · asked by Bryan M 2

2007-10-09 18:03:30 · 9 answers · asked by DeDeDeDeDeDeDeDeDeDeDeDeDeDerek 1

I mean my best friend is going out with this girl who is cool. He's a Yankee fan like me but the thing he's going out with a Red Sox Fan. The rest of my friends say that he should break up because you never go out with a Sox fan ever if your a Yankee fan no matter who it is.

2007-10-09 17:42:42 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous

I think Cleveland is set with CC/Carmona/Westbrook/Byrd.

But what about the Red Sox? Should they go with Schilling in Game 2 instead of Dice-K? Dice looked shaky in LDS. And who should start Game 4?

2007-10-09 17:32:24 · 7 answers · asked by Pete 4

2007-10-09 17:10:22 · 3 answers · asked by Marshy 1

Would you agree that GM Brian Cashman's job should be more on the line than Joe Torre's? Between Giambi, Abreu, Mussina, and Clemens (at this stage of his career anyway) amounts to about $70 million of unnecessary payroll that I think should be gone next season. Its in the front office's hands who wears the uniform, Torre just puts the best lineup out there he can

And I know Im gonna hear how high the payroll is, and the championships are in the past (which someone tell georgie that id rather not win for 7 years than his 23 years of detroit not winning), and yes the indians just beat the yankees.....tell me something i dont know people.

2007-10-09 17:08:03 · 16 answers · asked by K-Dubbs 3

2007-10-09 16:47:31 · 11 answers · asked by That One Guy 1

and isnt it sweet?

2007-10-09 16:00:35 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous