I really will be interesting to see what happens going forward. Bo Porter took the Houston Astros job knowing the team was going to purposely field a AAA team for a number of years, but within a couple years he was gone. Maybe he couldn't take the losing or lack of support or maybe the Astros really did bail on him…

I don't think I said anything about money = championships, only that baseball is not a good frame of reference for comparison because the nature of the sport is so different. The reason baseball's system works so well for baseball is the fact that one player can't completely dominate the game. In my examples above…

Baseball's a different animal though. The best players aren't involved in every play or every game like basketball. Clayton Kershaw isn't pitching every day and Mike Trout can't take every at bat. And yes while basketball players periodically rest during games they have many more opportunities to effect games than…

I used to work at a run of the mill Tex-Mex place in the Midwest. During the summer we'd run different promotions. One of those was All You Can Eat Ribs Wednesdays (or some middle of the week day.) The deal was you got served a half a rack of ribs at a time until you called it quits and you were allowed to take one…

Fair enough for sure...and please don't mistake me, what you both are suggesting is not bad or wrong at all, I just don't see anything wrong with saving the bullet until if it's needed.

I do see your point for sure, but with the thousands of "what if's" I don't see anything wrong with how Bochy is going with this. Using the same "what-if" factor, let's say you start Bumgarner and he's able to give you 3 innings. Great. Now let's say Hudson or Petit comes in behind him and looks shaky in the 4th or…

I don't think there is an agreement that Bochy will use him. What if Guthrie and the Royals pitching staff implode in the first 2-3 innings as Peavy did last night? There'd be no need for Bumgarner at all.

"look we had totally legit reasons for sitting all these guys but I understand Sarver's point of view"

Pretty sure the original comment was a joke and it just flew over your head

So basically what you and everyone else in this comment thread is saying is the players are fucked and will always be fucked and they should just deal with it?

This. This is why the NFL players can never have good things. They are the biggest group of pushovers in sports. They play the most popular sport by far, but constantly let the owners and the league put them over a barrel on everything.

I think all this proves one thing: We NEED a "Why Your Team Sucks - Baseball Edition!"

Not sure which Rivera you're talking about but it sure as hell is not Mariano Rivera. Even in the minor leagues Rivera played for all Yankee teams: Gulf Coast Yankees, Greensboro Hornets (Back when they were the Hornets and a Yankee affiliate), Fort Lauderdale Yankees, Tampa Yankees, Albany Yankees, Columbus Clippers…

2000 Yankees you are correct on. :-)

Well said. Last year The Red Sox won the series with a high payroll and a model that more matched the Dodgers. Hard to call one way antiquated when that way won just the year before.

The whole payroll argument is close to dead anyway. MLB over the last 15 years has been littered with teams with big payrolls who didn't…

"But yeah, it's not like the Dodgers go full Steinbrenner considering most of their best players (Kershaw, Kemp, Jensen, Puig) are homegrown."

Actually the Yankees during their dynasty years of the 90s were full of home grown players who arguably were their best players (Jeter, Williams, Posada, Pettitte, Rivera) that…

That's such a dad move

This is EXACTLY why that shit known as Sunny Delight is still sold. It's because dads everywhere bought that commercial about kids supposedly liking it never realizing that the reason it was always in the back of the fridge in the commercials is because NOBODY ever wanted it and it was pushed to…

What makes the Royals D extra insane is Cain is tremendous in CF, BUT moves to RF when Jarrod Dyson comes in for D at the end of games. Their OF D is fantastic (Alex Gordon is no slouch in left either. And Nori Aoki played well in right in this series when he was in)

Why would a Orioles/Dodgers Series make Yankee fan heads explode? We Yankee fans have seen Boston win the Series 3 times in a decade, once after they came back from down 3-0 to our own team in the ALCS. Why would Orioles/Dodgers make us any more crazy than that? It just wouldn't.

And that was a stupid blanket…

because tossing a cup is apparently an offense worthy of a takedown