GO SOX!!!!

[Chris Joyce]

Get the brooms out!!!!

 

[user 64117]

I am a huge "Boston sports fan" but why do these people continue to do these STUPID acts.



Just ruins the whole experience.

 

[Bill V]

Congratulations on the best championship money can buy.

 

[rob chaw]

GO SOX!!!!



GO MIKE LOWELL - MVP!!!!!

(another ex-Florida Marlin done well....)



rob

 

[user 64117]

Bill V,

dont think their not getting it back (money that is)

 

[Bradley Bliton]

We are the CHAMPS!!! Take that you damn Yankees!!!!!!!

 

[A K]

GO MIKE LOWELL - MVP!!!!!

Shoot. He was the top name in the Phillies off-season 3B search. I don't think the Fightins will want to pay him what he might ask now.



The secondary name was Garret Atkins. Hopefully his subpar WS (ignoring his season) will make him more receptive to playing with former UCLA teammate Utley.

 

[Bill V]

Bill V,

dont think their not getting it back (money that is)

Oh, I know they will. That's not the point. It's still a purchased championship, which therefore, in many sports fans' eyes, is at least as tainted as Bonds' home run record.

 

[user 64117]

Bill V,

i think the Yankees prove that you just cant buy a WS. and if it were not for the Indians choking/Boston waking up, the Indians would be there.

 

[TomT]

I think if it had been the best 5 out of 9 then the Rockies would have taken it.

 

[Chris Joyce]

Bill V. Um franchises have to buy there players right? Wouldn't you want the best players? Just like you want the best parts for your ST!!! Boston's salary cap isn't anywhere near the yankees....

Are you kidding TomT? Didn't you see us sweep! I mean seriously!!!

 

[TomT]

The Sox were getting worn out from running around all those bases.

 

[Bill V]

I think the Yankees prove that you just cant buy a WS.

How do you figure? They've won one-third of the past dozen series.

Just like you want the best parts for your ST!!!

OK, since you want to make that analogy....



Yes, it's like me wanting to have the best ST possible.



But if I go to a car show, and I see an ST that has had thousands, perhaps even tens or hundreds of thousands, of dollars worth of "upgrades", paid for by some billionaire who never laid a finger on it except for drive it to the show to show off "his" vehicle, and then I see another one, owned by some kid who can barely afford the ST, but has custom-tooled all his enhancements by hand, himself, having invested a couple hundred bucks and many, many of his personal hours into it, I'm not going to be impressed with or have any respect for the billionaire's vehicle, regardless of whether the show sponsors give them the prize.

Boston's salary cap isn't anywhere near the yankees....

Check again...New York was $189M, Boston was $143M. And I don't believe that includes the $51M that the Red Sox paid just for the right to negotiate with Matsuzaka. Add that in, and that is VERY close, even exceeding the Yankees, and is especially high when you consider that the league median was under $80M, and that no one else in the majors was over $116M.



Until MLB starts doing a REAL salary cap and REAL revenue sharing, any WS victory by any team in the top handful of payrolls is going to be viewed as tainted by many baseball fans.

 

[Chris Joyce]

Ok Bill, then maybe the MLB should hire Little Leaguers...now would that ease your mind about PROFESSIONAL SPORTS!

 

[shawn stonbraker 2]

Man. You "Bostonians" get testy when someone steps on your winnings. I'm just kidding. Congrats on the victory. Even though I didn't watch it because of Boston being in it.

 

[Johnny O]

I will say that Terry Francona is my homeboy, he's from the next town down the road from me.

 

[Chris Joyce]

 

[Bill V]

Who's saying anything about Little Leaguers? I'm just saying that if MLB wants to ever correct the continuing/increasing decline in the popularity of their sport, one thing they need to do is to correct the ridiculous disparity in team salaries, with a salary cap more similar to what the NFL has. (There are plenty other things they need to do, too--but this is right near the top.) Without that, people will continue to view any championships "won" by any of the teams in New York, Boston, LA, or Chicago as tainted, and will therefore continue to tune out the sport.



Although it appears that, since you equate salary caps and revenue sharing with "Little Leaguers", you feel that the athletes in the NFL are on a Little League level...

 

[Chris Joyce]

This is going nowhere dude!

 

[Johnny O]

The main difference with MLB, besides no salary cap, is the TV contract. MLB does not have a national TV network contract and share the money like the NFL does. MLB gets very little national TV money, Game Of The Week and that's about it. The bulk of each team's TV and radio money comes from the local broadcaster, which in a large market is going to be more.

More viewers = more advertising revenue = team can charge more for broadcast rights.

Team has more money, team can sign better players and keep the good players they have, although truth is the Yankees and Red Sox do a pretty good job of scouting and developing their own players.