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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: Chris27
Date: March 24, 2013, 12:35 am
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Austin Meadows through 10 games: .571/.647/1.071
He has 3 homers, 11 RBI, and 11 steals.
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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: March 24, 2013, 10:47 am
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I would abolish the draft entirely, as well as allowing free
agency to be determined entirely as a matter of contract between
the player and the team signing him.
Yes, that would mean teams willing to spend heavily would have a
tremendous competitive advantage. So what?
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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: davep
Date: March 24, 2013, 12:21 pm
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The most obvious "so what" would be that most of the small
market teams would go broke.
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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: March 24, 2013, 1:05 pm
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--- Quote from: davep link ---
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> The most obvious "so what" would be that most of the small
market teams would go broke.
>
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That depends entirely on how revenue sharing is handled, and how
broadcast and gate revenues are split.
Then again, I am really not upset by the idea that teams be
allowed to fold.
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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: davep
Date: March 24, 2013, 8:29 pm
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Why have revenue sharing or broadcast and gate revenue splits at
all? Just let each team keep it's own revenue.
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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: Cubsin
Date: March 24, 2013, 8:47 pm
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--- Quote from: davep link ---
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> Why have revenue sharing or broadcast and gate revenue splits
at all? Just let each team keep it's own revenue.
>
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Competitiveness. But they need to redefine how teams qualify for
revenue sharing, and then make sure they actually spend the
money on baseball operations instead of just putting it in their
pockets. The St. Louis Cardinals do not need revenue sharing to
make them competitive, and the Marlins' owner doesn't deserve a
nickel.
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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: JeffH
Date: March 24, 2013, 9:20 pm
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Cubsin, I believe DaveP directed that question to the dullard.
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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: Jes Beard
Date: March 24, 2013, 10:23 pm
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--- Quote from: davep link ---
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> Why have revenue sharing or broadcast and gate revenue splits
at all? Just let each team keep it's own revenue.
>
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Who are you asking?
I don't recall advocating revenue sharing... or opposing it, but
revenue collected by the league for licensing and for broadcast
rights would need to be split in some manner, and some might
refer to that as revenue sharing, unless, of course, you think
the league offices should just hold onto all of it and raise
Bud's salary.
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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: Cactus
Date: March 25, 2013, 12:26 am
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--- Quote from: Cubsin link ---
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> Competitiveness. But they need to redefine how teams qualify
for revenue sharing, and then make sure they actually spend the
money on baseball operations instead of just putting it in their
pockets. The St. Louis Cardinals do not need revenue sharing to
make them competitive, and the Marlins' owner doesn't deserve a
nickel.
>
--- End Quote ---
Add the Minnesota Twins owners to that list. A couple years ago
they used the revenue sharing money to pay bonuses to
management.
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Re: 2013 Draft
DIR By: davep
Date: March 25, 2013, 8:48 am
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How do you know that the money for bonuses came from revenue
sharing? Couldn't it have come from gate revenue?
And why shouldn't management get bonuses? Epstein and Hoyer
will probably have substantial impact on the success of the
Cubs. Shouldn't they be rewarded for their work?
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