mrbug708

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bullshite take. MLB will not let teams operate at or anywhere near a loss for fear of bankruptcy. Owners can't just pump hundreds of millions of their own cash in. Only a handful of teams even have the media deals and income to do anything near what the Dodgers are doing, but none are on par.

Their media deal income, combined with the ability to defer money and guarantee it's availability by setting it aside and letting it grow, is unfair from a competitive balance standpoint and has to go.

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So the reason why teams like the Pirates, White Sox, Rays, Marlins don't spend money is because MLB will not let teams operate that way?

Seems like they should be pressuring them to sell the teams.

A few thoughts. I'm glad this is hurting the Astros fans. This moment is created because rather than act contrite, they decided to double down on the Dodgers choking narrative. This death star is in part, because their team gamed the system for two titles. 2017's title created a lot of this.

On "buying" titles. Do other teams have players working for free? Did anyone care that the Blue Jays had a payroll of nearly 100 million more than the Mariners the last round? Where was the "buying AL Titles" talk at? Astros couldn't afford Springer? Dodgers couldnt afford Seager, Machado, Trea Turner, Max Scherzer. They let a former NL MVP walk. The Dodgers spend money, but they also spend it wisely. (Maybe not Kirby Yates or Tanner Scott, who was definitely F-U money move).

The Dodgers have an organization everyone wants to play for. Max Muncy is on a team friendly deal. Freddie Freeman came over under market. Teo took a one year deal to play for LA. Why? Because the Dodgers are the best run organization. When Travis D’Arnaud showed he could play but didnt have much PT with the Dodgers, they basically sent him to the Rays so he could get the PT again. They are paying for Andrew Toles.

On the "loophole" (insert Princess Bride meme about not understanding the word). There is no loophole, the rules are simple and in the collective bargaining agreement. Every team uses deferred money in contracts, that's why it's there. The Dodgers just had a unicorn on their hands. And the "loophole" is preventing owners like Hal Steinbrenner (yes, I know he doesnt get money from LT) from pocketing Dodger luxury tax overages and fixing up his Tuscan estate rather than investing in teams.

On a salary floor and ceiling. The Dodgers are so well run, this wouldn't really be a stopping point. Pointing to the NFL as everyone does, the Steelers have the smallest payroll in the NFL at 258,000,000ish. Could you imagine Bob Nutting having to pay that sort of money on his team? C'mon, he's not agreeing to that. The only parties demanding on limiting player, the talent, payroll are fans of teams who still simp for billionaire owners. Yeah, it sucks. But you should be pushing MLB into kicking out owners using their teams as a writeoff.

On the Dodgers going bankrupt over deferrals, the ownership group just bought the Lakers for 10 billion dollars. The Dodgers likely just paid off the 460ish owed to Ohtani's fund.They run their team like their do their mutual funds, effectively.

Go Dodgers!

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UCLA will lose 5 games this year. Their quarterback is only serviceable against weak and confused defenses like ours. Put him against any solid D, and he will be abysmal.

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Name the 5 solid Defenses they will face this year. Utah? Maybe Oregon and USC?

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He has a market and a platform to appease Look where he is located. UCLA won't win 8 games this year. Their QB is hot garbage

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You should check out the PAC-12 from this past week. There arent four losses on that schedule.

Token UCLA fan here. I was one of the dozens at the Hawaii game, in the heat. You really just need your mask to enter the Rose Bowl. While I am generally pro mask, I couldn't sit there with my mask on for most of the game. Nobody is going to say anything to you.

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They also blew a huge lead with Kershaw on the mound in the series too

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I mean, we kind of know why it happened in game 5 now..

The fans would love it but meyer's history wont allowed for his hiring at a achool where they are facing an enormous scandal for allowing a sexual predator to perform a decades worth of assaults during gynecology appointments. Thats to go along with a medical dean supply coke to his medical student WAGS

The lack of penalties being called for Palace is mind numbing. But the one called so far in their game was for Liverpool, which wasn't anything

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when i read how he's a FA demanding big wages i knew a mid/lower table EPL team would scoop him up, due to the inflated wages of the EPL

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Sounds like 80k a week

To be fair, they predicted a riot

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UCLA ain't gonna pay top dollar for a football coach so that is a consideration.

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SO they'll spend money on the buyout, just to hire a retread? Seems cheaper and easier to wait another year before firing Mora if that's the case.