Jealousy has a high price.
The Mets payroll is less than 1/3 of what Steven Cohen paid in fines for insider trading.
Breakdown of Brantley’s contract incentives.
… which is in turn less than 1/10 what Cohen pocketed from insider trading.
Hahaha….
What a fucking turd.
“I am shocked - SHOCKED! - that owners are spending outlandishly to win championships!”
“Your winnings, sir.”
What are you crazy they’re going to raise the price of a hot dog by $2.50 man fuck that
I made it halfway through the quote holding out the misguided hope that it was introspective.
“I was joking with somebody previously that 10 years ago, you’d always hear me say that you shouldn’t have a $200 million payroll to win a championship,” Steinbrenner said. “Well, I’ve modified that slightly. So, you shouldn’t have to have a $300 million payroll to win a championship. As most teams don’t. The Astros didn’t.”
Astros didn’t even have a 200M payroll last year
I don’t think the number should be absolute.
Ideally I think a team should spend close to the CBT in most years if they expect to compete.
I don’t feel an owner should HAVE to stay over CBT every year but there is something to be said for staying close and going over regularly if the team keeps winning and bringing in extra playoff revenue.
But the CBT raises each year so its not a set amount like $200M or $300M
Also if a team has a core that has lots of 3-4 year players who are getting annual arbitration raises or a star entering FA they want to keep, I can see a team take a step back for 1 year to reset before that happens.
Was rumored as a possibility to be Machete’s backup.
Trevor Bauer reinstated. Twitterverse believes the Dodgers will simply release him and thus be on the hook for $32m less any new deal. I am fading that notion.
He will be a Texas Ranger within weeks.
I hope he never pitches another major league inning
A noble thought, but you know there will be a craven owner somewhere in need of pitching who will figure that he can work around the backlash.
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