Tom Hicks...Owner of the Year

also, baseball needs a cap





Just like the NFL so everyone can be a .500 team.If a mid to large
market team like the Rangers cannot or will not spend the money wisely
get out of the baseball biz.I am tired of hearing all this whinning
about being a "small market" team.Detroit is a smaller market that the
Rangers have and they seem to do okay.How about that Florida
squad,seems that Arizona has one a WS as well.St.Louis ain't exactly a
large market either and they seem to do pretty well.Problem is the
Rangers have idiot fans,did I mention that,and the owner is a moron
who bellyaches as much as the pathetic fandom that allows ityself to
believe in salary caps and have bought into the "small market" myth.
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"joe dopebucket" <joedopebucket RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> also, baseball needs a cap
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> Just like the NFL so everyone can be a .500 team.If a mid to large
> market team like the Rangers cannot or will not spend the money wisely
> get out of the baseball biz.I am tired of hearing all this whinning
> about being a "small market" team.Detroit is a smaller market that the
> Rangers have and they seem to do okay.How about that Florida
> squad,seems that Arizona has one a WS as well.St.Louis ain't exactly a
> large market either and they seem to do pretty well.Problem is the
> Rangers have idiot fans,did I mention that,and the owner is a moron
> who bellyaches as much as the pathetic fandom that allows ityself to
> believe in salary caps and have bought into the "small market" myth.


Not everyone in the NFL is a 500 team.

Every year you have some teals go 3-13 and other teams go 13-2...

some go 6 and 10 and others go 10 and 6...

Baseball needs a cap where every team has the ability to spend the same
amount. This would bring it down to scouting and desire.. not that the
rangers would win at that but its a start...
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Instead of a salary cap how about each player be declaired a free
agent after each season? If you recall Marvin Miller actually threw
that on the table in the 1972 labor dispute.Miller later stated that
if the owners had jumped at that offer it would have been an absolute
disater for the players.It would have meant that players were only
worth what they did the past season,no long term deals or
renegotiating.As usual the owners were too caught up being idiots and
dismissed the idea.

That being said I think it is really apparent that the NFL is not
nearly the product that it was prior to the cap.Players are not given
any time to adjust and too many times these first and second year
players are forced into action before they are ready to play because
everyone knows that the cap will not allow them time to mature as
players and owners want something in return and at a cheap price.The
NFL players union of course is led by the resident brain child Gene
Upshaw so that is about all that is needed to be known about that.

The NBA has a "soft cap" that seems to work better for both the
players and management.Teams are encouraged to keep their star players
without a lot of changing around although some leeway is allowed for
free agency and trades.


How about forcing some of the deadbeat baseball owners to spend some
of that luxery tax money they are given.There are several owners that
never reinvest a cent of it and these are the same owners that will
tell you that if it were not for the Yankees,Red Sox,Mets,Dodgers,and
Angels they would be out of the business of baseball because they have
to have the luxery tax money to stay afloat.
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