winforlose wrote:KGdaBom wrote:winforlose wrote:
I am sorry, I cannot root for any team that far in the tax. It is like rooting for brain cancer or a cancer of the central nervous system. It is killing the game and all the small market teams that are vital to it.
That factor is outweighed by Simmons making all his skeptics eat crow.
Only on a team that is over a 170 million in payroll. It’s like the Yankees, individual great performance are drowned out by the fact that they had to buy the win. Your point would be much easier to swallow on a team like Memphis or Chicago who had a great season while following the traditions of the league rather than nuking them. Do you ever see us paying 300 million in a single season? If not how can we honestly compete with multiple teams who do? The moment the money becomes wildly uneven is the moment the game becomes corrupted. Is that Simmons fault, of course not. But everything he does is tainted by the fact that his team is spending more than 35 million above the tax line.
I’m a “hard cap” fan 100%. The NFL dominates the US when it comes to professional sports and it’s not even close. The hard cap puts more emphasis on competent management and less on a wealthy owner. It gives every team the chance to quickly compete with smart business decisions and keeps every fan base engaged.
The Yankees, Red Sox and Dodgers are perfect examples of why MLB is dead in this country. It’s not much of an accomplishment to win anything when you have $150M more in payroll than your opponent. Fans see the massive disparity and completely check out like I did.
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