 |
View Old Forum Thread
Old Forum Index » Other Stuff » Off Topic » YANKEES TRADE FOR BARRY BONDS!
hobos
February 17, 2004 at 04:01AM View BBCode
I know you were kidding, it was actually a 4 team deal where the yankees got Barry Bonds, Jason Schmidt(to be a long reliever), Albert Pujols, Mark Prior, and Kerry Wood
ME
February 19, 2004 at 12:04AM View BBCode
They also got Erik Gagne as a setup man but had to give up all their minor leaguers. now they only have a AA taemfilled with worthless players, but a place they can send guys for rehab assignments.
Schef33
February 19, 2004 at 12:50AM View BBCode
IM a yankee fan, and I kind of thought it was funny, although somewhat tiresome.
skierdude44
February 19, 2004 at 01:42AM View BBCode
it would be funny if there wasnt this constant whining about the yankees. u guys are beating a dead horse with a stick. get over it.
happy
wait, new news, they bought the NY Giants, and the entire AFC so they could win the superbowl, and then heard about this "sal-err----iii cap..." and decided to stick with baseball.
February 19, 2004 at 06:29AM View BBCode
(still getting water from a rock)wait, new news, they bought the NY Giants, and the entire AFC so they could win the superbowl, and then heard about this "sal-err----iii cap..." and decided to stick with baseball.
skierdude44
February 19, 2004 at 08:23PM View formatted
You are viewing the raw post code; this allows you to copy a message with BBCode formatting intact.
hey steinbrenner can buy the jets and/or giants any time he wants. he used to own part of the nets before the sale of the team. and there is a saall-eerr-ii cap in that sport.
happy
February 19, 2004 at 11:49PM View BBCode
not really. no real sall errr iii cap in there, just a soft cap. essentially the same as a luxary tax. I bet you wouldve been much more happy if Steinbrenner bought all of the NJ Nets, so that he could be spending 200 million on the nets too.
skierdude44
February 20, 2004 at 01:14AM View BBCode
hey steinbrenner can buy any and all of the teams i like. i wanna see my teams win, and he does that. im sure that u r gonna say, anyone could win with 200 million dollars especially in new york. that is not true. alot of teams have tried to do that and so far only the yankees have succeeded. now im not saying they spent 200 million but for the most part baseball salaries are considerably higher than any of the other major sports. the rangers havent won anything in 10 years despite hockey's highest payroll, the knicks are one of the top spenders in the nba and havent been very good (marbury seems to be turning that around though.) the mets also tried the yankee approach and failed. the redsox have tried it also (not to the same extent) but they are still "cursed." i heard somewhere that steinbrenner's original investment in the yankees was about 168,000 dollars. then he increased to about 5 million and now his team is worth over a billion dollars. so obviously he isnt just throwing money at holes and hoping it sticks.
happy
February 20, 2004 at 04:58AM View BBCode
well, lets see, the Yankees have had by far the most money for a long time, as compared to a team spending a lot in a short amount of time
skierdude44
February 20, 2004 at 09:57PM View BBCode
the rangers (ny) have been spending alot forever and havent won anything since '94.
skierdude44
February 23, 2004 at 08:27PM View BBCode
so how does that affect anything. it just proves that spending senselessly doesnt work.
happy
February 23, 2004 at 09:48PM View BBCode
what it changes is that examples from worthless sports shouldnt matter. Maybe it is harder to recognize talent in hockey, or maybe players are more loyal to their team in hockey, so it takes way more money to get them to leave their team.Pages: 1