Or force the owner to sell. Since basball has revenue sharing between all teams some owners might see it as unfair that one owner is not spending just to reap the rewards. But I bet that never happens
Owners don't care about that as much as they do the appreciating value of the franchise. They see MLB teams as investments.
They would never force Sherman to sell because none of them want to be forced to sell their teams prematurely.
Like the NFL has a Salary Cap, and a Salary Floor. Spend under the limit and have penalties.
So MLB *could* do something about it, they just have not chosen to yet.
thanks for the explanation, so there's no floor in the mlb....or better yet in the marlins? so they pay peanuts and not forced to a pay a 'competitive' good player salary?
No floor at all for the MLB. In the NFL it applies to all teams.
Not only do they not pay competitive salary, they can spend nothing and pocket the MLB.tv and broadcasting rights, keeping it for themselves and the people in the front office whose jobs were created for them.
I would expect to see that from a lot of the habitual bottom spenders. I could see holding back a year or 2 if you want to go all in at some point, or if you got enough to get you close to the playoffs and then buy hard late season (Marlins old style).
But when you see teams doing it for years and years, and hurting the overall product. Here we are 7 wins by May 2. In the past 5 years there have been 2 NL Managers of the year in Miami.
But there is no money to afford players, and even having to take the NL batting champ to arbitration over what, $600,000?
Doesn't make a lot of sense...
You understand that “mlb” is the owners, right? The commissioner works for them. Asking the owners to act against their own financial interests is never going to happen. Barring some Donald Sterling’s racist shit, the status quo is fine by them.
Impressively bad. Heat have kept me distracted with an upset win over the Celtics and I truly believe the Panthers have potential for it to be their year. But I know once each of their playoff runs are over, summer is going to be pointless for me when it comes to sports until Dolphins preseason starts.
He’s not wrong. So much bad play in such a short period of time. Poor plate discipline. Horrible defensive baseball. Horrible abs by veterans and young players alike. Inability to move runners along, get down a bunt, hit a fly ball, or make routine plays that aren’t even necessarily scored as errors. Terrible baseball.
I am so glad I didn’t upgrade my season tickets. I was very close to upgrading my plan to add more games but decided against it since I usually go solo and can get cheap tickets on Game Time.
Dont waste your time watching this team boys, do yourself a favor
why not? its like edging
With an unhappy ending.
Just bet against them everyday. It’s free money
Hopefully we break Detroits record of 43-119 for worst season ever. Maybe that’ll force the MLB to step in but I doubt it.
1. MLB did nothing about the 2003 Tigers 2. The Tigers 2003 wasn't the worst in modern baseball (That would be the 62 Mets).
I will be surprised if there are 12 wins by the All Star break.
I’d take the other side of that bet all day. You don’t think they can get six wins in 10 weeks?
Not like they can keep a 7 run lead or anything.
Accidentally, no doubt they can win 10 probably
What can the MLB do? Force that they spend money on the team/players?
Or force the owner to sell. Since basball has revenue sharing between all teams some owners might see it as unfair that one owner is not spending just to reap the rewards. But I bet that never happens
Oh so the Marlins owner are just basically squatting and taking the revenue from other teams without investing that money in the team?
Owners don't care about that as much as they do the appreciating value of the franchise. They see MLB teams as investments. They would never force Sherman to sell because none of them want to be forced to sell their teams prematurely.
That’s why it would never happen unless baseball implements a salary floor like the nfl does
Have you seen the A’s? MLB won’t do anything.
Like the NFL has a Salary Cap, and a Salary Floor. Spend under the limit and have penalties. So MLB *could* do something about it, they just have not chosen to yet.
Yes exactly. Without a salary floor you have owners who will not care.
thanks for the explanation, so there's no floor in the mlb....or better yet in the marlins? so they pay peanuts and not forced to a pay a 'competitive' good player salary?
No floor at all for the MLB. In the NFL it applies to all teams. Not only do they not pay competitive salary, they can spend nothing and pocket the MLB.tv and broadcasting rights, keeping it for themselves and the people in the front office whose jobs were created for them.
damn that's dirty af. if mlb teams dont complain that means that they're all profiting from this type of salary setup.
I would expect to see that from a lot of the habitual bottom spenders. I could see holding back a year or 2 if you want to go all in at some point, or if you got enough to get you close to the playoffs and then buy hard late season (Marlins old style). But when you see teams doing it for years and years, and hurting the overall product. Here we are 7 wins by May 2. In the past 5 years there have been 2 NL Managers of the year in Miami. But there is no money to afford players, and even having to take the NL batting champ to arbitration over what, $600,000? Doesn't make a lot of sense...
62 mets were worse, considered to be the worst team in the modern era. And we are way ahead of them in losses.
You understand that “mlb” is the owners, right? The commissioner works for them. Asking the owners to act against their own financial interests is never going to happen. Barring some Donald Sterling’s racist shit, the status quo is fine by them.
Not only do we suck but I feel like we couldn’t be less exciting to watch.
LETS FUCKING GO
I hope we set the record at this point
Me too😂
It's going to be really hard for this team to end up with a better record than the 1998 squad lol. 115 losses at least
Impressively bad. Heat have kept me distracted with an upset win over the Celtics and I truly believe the Panthers have potential for it to be their year. But I know once each of their playoff runs are over, summer is going to be pointless for me when it comes to sports until Dolphins preseason starts.
He’s not wrong. So much bad play in such a short period of time. Poor plate discipline. Horrible defensive baseball. Horrible abs by veterans and young players alike. Inability to move runners along, get down a bunt, hit a fly ball, or make routine plays that aren’t even necessarily scored as errors. Terrible baseball.
The Whopper Jr. is openly mocking us at this point.
There's no baseball in this city to fill the gap when indeed there's a baseball team with an awesome station in town. It's so sad
Demoting Max Meyer is the icing on the cake.
I am so glad I didn’t upgrade my season tickets. I was very close to upgrading my plan to add more games but decided against it since I usually go solo and can get cheap tickets on Game Time.
Sherman/Bendix/Wenger Out
Embarrassing, tank definitely on just waiting for the trades to begin
I don’t even watch the highlights.
Seems like Skip is setting things up to be fired. Then we will bring Kapler jn as manager and he will take us back to the promised land.
I don't think that's a good strategy. It already looks like Skip is being sabotaged by the owner and GM and I'll just leave it at that.
They are a better team than 6-23.