Jump to content
  • GUESTS

    If You  want access  to member only forums on FM, You will need to Sign-in or  Sign-Up now .

    This box will disappear once you are signed in as a member.

Who's Fault Is It?


Maximum12

Recommended Posts

It kills me that Torii's gone & Johan is likely going.

But with all the moaning & Twins-bashing - some of which is justified, some not - nobody has mentioned the true culprit. Competitive imbalance.

I, for one, would wholeheartedly support a lockout to create a salary cap across baseball, much like the one in football. We can (Contact Us Please) about Pohlad's billions, about the front office timidity, about the new stadium, but the truth is, until salaries are addressed, nothing will change. Anyone want to switch divisions with the Devil Rays? That poor franchise is doomed to baseball purgatory forever behind the two biggest-spending teams in baseball.

Essentially, the Twins & other smaller markets need to do almost everything PERFECTLY for several years to compete. And one they get there, they can't afford to keep the guys around who brought them to that level.

It's that simple. I'm mad at Pohlad too, but I'm angrier at baseball. I'd be delighted to go watch "scabs" play if it meant breaking the player's "union" & instituting competitive balance in the game.

I wish I didn't love baseball so much.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Major League Baseball is killing itself from the inside out. Every year, some owner and team ups the ante with an extreme salary for a player or players. Trickle affect "well, if that player can get that much, so can I".. and they go out and do it. Or I should say, MLB and the owners allow it to happen.

Some people will take the approach that these guys are professionals and "deserve" to get paid... who deserves 18 mil a year.?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If everyone would boycott the season for a few months that would send a fast message to baseball and the owners. As long as everyone keeps paying for the tickets and the cable, nothing is going to change.

One must hit them where it hurts and thats in the pocket book. Then they will change the rules.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

harvey hit the nail on the head. And that goes for all professional sports. When fans quit showing up, then we'll see some change.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I think it's already starting to change.

This year, weren't 3 of the 4 teams in the playoffs with payrolls under $70M?? And 2 of those had payrolls under the Twins, including the Indians, in our own division.

I guess I don't understand the argument that just because you pay $15M+ of 5-6 starting positions, that you're going to win. The Yankees haven't had the pennant for quite a while now.

And before you blow me out of the water, I DO realize that the Red Sox, with their $130M+ payroll pretty much steamrolled Colorado, but there's some scheduling there that hurt the Rockies as well.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

baseball is NOT fair

and It will never be fair until there is a cap.

How can you compete with the Red Sox and Yankees every year?

IMO the Red Sox world series victory is tainted, for the simple reason they have the highest payroll in MLB counting Dice-k's negotiation fee.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Cant say its tainted, its just they have an owner who wants and will do everything in his power to WIN.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I agree, it is not tainted. The ownership just isn't afraid to open their wallets. The only thing I get tired of is hearing that we are a small market team. The only thing small is pohlad's idea of how to spend money. grin.gif

Link to comment
Share on other sites

There can't be a salary cap introduced anymore, ALL existing contracts would have be null and void, which is illegal, and the players union would sue MLB. One thing I don't understand is how teams like the Yanks, Red Sox, Mariners, etc can go out and sign pros from other countries like Japan, Cuba, etc. The most fair thing to do is require them players that want to play here to enter the draft and be drafted by whomever.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

If you want to play the blame game, I say it's the fault primarily of Marvin Miller, who was able to make free agency a reality. It sounds so old school but the game was much better, well, simpler anyway, back in the days of the reserve clause. When the players got the power to negotiate is when the salaries went nuts. You can't blame the owners for shelling out money and wanting to win. In fact, if they don't they get blamed for collusion plus the fans jump on them for not opening their wallets. Just like here with Pohlad--danged if you do, danged if you don't. But free agency is here to stay. A salary cap will never work. The baseball union is too strong. They players would strike until the owners give in. I know it isn't the American way to exercise that much authority over labor but baseball was much better off before the players made this kind of money. Not only that but look what it does to their attitudes. You would think the more money someone makes the happier they would be with their employer, the customer (fans), and life in general. More money just breeds greater greed.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Guest
This topic is now closed to further replies.


  • Your Responses - Share & Have Fun :)

    • leech~~
      Nope not me.  May want to go nextdoor and ask around?  
    • smurfy
      Looks to me like Leech brought his chair home!!😅😆
    • Brianf.
      I'm not there, so I can't tell exactly what's going on but it looks like a large area of open water developed in the last day with all of the heavy snow on the east side of wake em up Narrows. These two photos are from my Ring Camera facing north towards Niles Point.  You can see what happened with all of snow that fell in the last three days, though the open water could have been wind driven. Hard to say. .  
    • SkunkedAgain
      Black Bay had great ice before but a few spots near rockpiles where there were spots of open water. It looks like the weight of the snow has created a little lake in the middle of the bay.  
    • LakeofthewoodsMN
      On the south end...   Thanks to some cold spring weather, ice fishing continues strong for those still ice fishing.  The bite remains very good.  Most resorts have pulled their fish houses off for the year, however, some still have fish houses out and others are allowing ATV and side by sides.  Check social media or call ahead to your favorite resort for specifics. Reports this week for walleyes and saugers remain excellent.   A nice mix of jumbo perch, pike, eelpout, and an occasional crappie, tullibee or sturgeon being reported by anglers. Jigging one line and using a live minnow on the second line is the way to go.  Green, glow red, pink and gold were good colors this week.     Monster pike are on a tear!  Good number of pike, some reaching over 45 inches long, being caught using tip ups with live suckers or dead bait such as smelt and herring in 8 - 14' of water.   As always, work through a resort or outfitter for ice road conditions.  Safety first always. Fish houses are allowed on the ice through March 31st, the walleye / sauger season goes through April 14th and the pike season never ends. On the Rainy River...  The river is opened up along the Nelson Park boat ramp in Birchdale, the Frontier boat ramp and Vidas boat ramp.  This past week, much of the open water skimmed over with the single digit overnight temps.   Areas of the river have popped open again and with temps getting warmer, things are shaping up for the last stretch through the rest of the spring season, which continues through April 14th.   Very good numbers of walleyes are in the river.  Reports this week, even with fewer anglers, have been good.  When temps warm up and the sun shines, things will fire up again.   Jigs with brightly colored plastics or jigs with a frozen emerald shiner have been the desired bait on the river.  Don't overlook slow trolling crankbaits upstream as well.   Good reports of sturgeon being caught on the river as well.  Sturgeon put the feed bag on in the spring.  The bite has been very good.  Most are using a sturgeon rig with a circle hook loaded with crawlers or crawlers / frozen emerald shiners. Up at the NW Angle...  Ice fishing is winding down up at the Angle.  Walleyes, saugers, and a number of various species in the mix again this week.  The bite is still very good with good numbers of fish.  The one two punch of jigging one line and deadsticking the second line is working well.   Check with Angle resorts on transport options from Young's Bay.  Call ahead for ice road guidelines.  
    • CigarGuy
      With the drifting, kind of hard to tell for sure, but I'm guessing about a foot and still lightly snowing. Cook end!
    • PSU
      How much snow did you get on Vermilion? 
    • Mike89
      lake here refroze too...  started opening again yesterday with the wet snow and wind...  very little ice left today...
    • Hookmaster
      A friend who has a cabin between Alex and Fergus said the lake he's on refroze. He texted me a pic from March 12th when it was open and one from 23rd when it wasn't. 🤯
    • SkunkedAgain
      I don't think that there has been any ice melt in the past few weeks on Vermilion. Things looked like a record and then Mother Nature swept in again.   I'll give my revised guess of April 21st
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.