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#1 May 22 2004 at 2:42 PM Rating: Good
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any of yo baseball fans? If so whats your favorite team. Mines a tie between Mets and Red Sox.
#2 May 22 2004 at 3:17 PM Rating: Excellent
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#3 May 22 2004 at 3:31 PM Rating: Good
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Don't listen to Tricky the White Sox are the best baseball team in Chicago.
#4 May 22 2004 at 4:20 PM Rating: Decent
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Tigers all the way
#5 May 22 2004 at 4:25 PM Rating: Decent
modern baseball players are a bunch of money grubbing pussies.

i used to be a mega BB fan, that was until the 2nd strike and then watching a game were the players refused to take the field because of gnats...

i have refused to watch a game since even when the Marriners were in the race.

yeah im a seatle fan, that should tell you something.
#6 May 22 2004 at 4:32 PM Rating: Decent
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modern baseball players are a bunch of money grubbing pussies.


I hope your definition of modern day stretches back pretty far because they have been money grubbers for a long time now.

Also, I would like to hear what people think of other professional athletes because I think that they are all money grubbing (explitive deleted). You would be too if someone was willing to give you millions of dollars to play.
#7 May 22 2004 at 5:17 PM Rating: Decent
I am a longtime Dodger fan, and short time Diamondback fan, well have only had the team a few years and I am pretty old so =P
#8 May 22 2004 at 9:37 PM Rating: Decent
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My favorite team is the Cardinals. Favorite player is Albert Pujols. They're not doing great so far this season, but it's early.
#9 May 23 2004 at 1:03 AM Rating: Decent
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modern baseball players are a bunch of money grubbing pussies.


I hope your definition of modern day stretches back pretty far because they have been money grubbers for a long time now.

Also, I would like to hear what people think of other professional athletes because I think that they are all money grubbing (explitive deleted). You would be too if someone was willing to give you millions of dollars to play.


be that as it may, at least other professional athletes get out and earn their money. they dont cry like little babies because of some bugs in their playing field.

there is not a sport in the world that pays its athelets as well as baseball players make, yet they are afraid of little itty bitty bugs? come on. you are paid to play, get off your duff and play.
#10 May 23 2004 at 4:58 AM Rating: Decent
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Oakland Athletics. The team in the Bay Area that's not the Giants. The good one.
#11 May 23 2004 at 8:59 AM Rating: Decent
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there is not a sport in the world that pays its athelets as well as baseball players make


Are you sure about that?

Top 5 Highest Paid Baseball Players this year.

Manny Ramirez Boston Red Sox OF $22.5
Alex Rodriguez New York Yankees 3B $22
Carlos Delgado Toronto Blue Jays OF $19.7
Derek Jeter New York Yankees SS $18.6
Barry Bonds San Francisco Giants OF $18


Top 5 Highest Paid Basketball Players this year.

1. Kevin Garnett, Min.
$22.4 million
2. Shaquille O'Neal, LAL
$21.43 million
3. Alonzo Mourning, Miami
$18.76 million
4. Juwan Howard, Dal.
$18.75 million
5. Scottie Pippen, Por.
$18.1 million


Seems pretty comparable to me. But keep in mind that baseball players play twice as many games in a season as basketball players do.


In the meantime the poor NFL players are getting gypped!!!

QB D. McNabb Eagles $15,389,225
RB Curtis Martin Jets $13,503,600
OG Larry Allen Cowboys $13,002,520
QB David Carr Texans $11,960,000
WR Rod Smith Broncos $11,664,040

Now, I know they only play about 1/10th the number of games in a season as baseball players do, but jeez, with these salaries these guys can barely afford to buy H2's.


And Hockey players are getting ripped too!
Forsberg, Peter $ 11,000,000 Colorado Avalanche
Jagr, Jaromir $ 11,000,000 Washington Capitals
Bure, Pavel $ 10,000,000 New York Rangers
Fedorov, Sergei $ 10,000,000 Anaheim Mighty Ducks
Lidstrom, Nicklas $ 10,000,000 Detroit Red Wings


and soccer players too (except for Beckham)

1. David Beckham (Real Madrid), 22,400,000
2. Ronaldo (Real Madrid), 16,500,000
3. Zidane (Real Madrid), 14,000,000
4. Christian Vieri (Inter), 11,100,000
5. Del Piero (Juventus), 10,100,000

The bottom line is that if you have a talent that people are willing to pay handsomely for, one which is likely to fade relatively quickly as you age, or vanish in an instant of injury, feel free to charge as much as the market will bear. I know I sure would.



Edited, Sun May 23 10:34:19 2004 by Deathwysh
#12 May 23 2004 at 10:25 AM Rating: Good
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soccer isnt much of a sport in the US. Hockeys dying too. Football players arnt payed much cuz of the Sallary Cap to try to make the teams fair. Thats why you dont see a team like the Yankees in football.
#13 May 23 2004 at 10:49 AM Rating: Decent
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soccer isnt much of a sport in the US. Hockeys dying too. Football players arnt payed much cuz of the Sallary Cap to try to make the teams fair. Thats why you dont see a team like the Yankees in football.


Hocky isn't dieing. Its just going through some growing pains. It'll straighten out eventually.

Football players aren't paid as much as baseball players for many reasons. The most significant being that they only play 16 games in a regular season, and cannot generate the kind of attendance based revenue that a baseball team with their 162 game regular season can.

To answer the original question, I'm a Yankees fans and have been since I was 9 years old and moved to New York. I was under the impression then that you had to root for your home team no matter where you lived. So I bid goodbye to the Phillies and embraced the Yankees. Such fortuitous naivete I have not experienced again.
#14 May 23 2004 at 12:29 PM Rating: Good
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BOO YANKEES SUCK!!!! all i hav to say.
#15 May 23 2004 at 12:41 PM Rating: Decent
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I agree, may the Yankees burn in hell...thank you for the Marlins KILLING them last year...even if they did beat the Cubbies :( (Prior, what a dumass)
#16 May 23 2004 at 3:24 PM Rating: Good
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i wanted to see Sox vs Cubs but the BAseball Gods didnt let it happen :(
#17 May 23 2004 at 8:30 PM Rating: Decent
Deathwysh, nice post, but that still does not answere the basic problem with baseball players refusing the take to the field because of bugs.

soccer players, basketball players, football players all take to the field even when injured, well except a few baseball players that still belong in the hood, but that is an other story.

i also do not see anyone by baseball players signing 100+million dollor contracts.

ok a baseball player will play more games, but what does he really do. he runs maybe 1/4 - 1/2 of a mile. he has very little contact with other players with the exception of the catcher. ea player with the exception of the pitcher/catcher team will toss the ball a few dozen times in a night. the 1st baseman may get 3 or 4 dozen tosses in.

ok what physical effort is there in any player other then the pitcher? i mean real phsyical effort that will get you to your target heart rate and keep you there for extended amounts of time?

now lets look at the other sports you listed, and then ill add tennis to that list:

basketball. most players will put in 30min of solid play time. that is running, jumping, bumping up and down a hardwood court for roughly 30min striaght. amount of serious physical workout is rather high.

football. both offense and defense will average 45min of overall playtime. they will work in maximum effort spurts with 100% contact in what a coach used to term as legalized street fighting. its boxing with pads on that includes tackles by as many guys that can put their hands on you. amount of physical working extreemly high in spurts, and still very demanind overall.

soccer. well lets face it in America they really dont know how to play soccer like it is played thoughout the rest of the world. soccer is extreemly demanding. run, run, run, and run some more, then bumping, shuving, pushing, kicking, falling, etc... arguably one of the most physically demanind sports in the world.

hockey. i put that right up there with soccer in amount of effort required, not to mention it has the added benifit of being a contact sport ment to take out the other guy much like football, and rugby.

now a few you did not mention:

rugby.. its a combination of soccer, football, and hockey all rolled up into one without pads. so this is why i say soccer is arguably the toughest sport out there.

tennis. this is 2-6hrs of playing in the heat on a hot court, hitting a ball between 50-140mph on a consistant basis for that entire time. running, jumping, swinging, falling, rolling, start/stop backpeddling, etc. i also put this right up there just under soccer as it does not have the person to person contact that soccer has, but it is always longer games thus longer times at peak heart rate.
#18 May 23 2004 at 8:39 PM Rating: Good
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i also do not see anyone by baseball players signing 100+million dollor contracts.

Kevin Garnett signed a $127 million contract with Minnesota, at the time the biggest contract in all of sports.

Physical effort has virtually NOTHING to do with how much players are paid.

They are paid based on how much REVENUE they will generate.


The more popluar the sport, the bigger the TV contracts, and therefore the bigger the salaries.

The only reason Football players aren't paid more is because of the salary cap.

Furthermore, many athletes' primary source of income is not from salary, but from endorsements. Lance Armstrong makes several hundred thousand dollars per year in winnings, but tens of millions from endorsements. This is because the advertisements generate revenue for the company.

#19 May 24 2004 at 8:52 AM Rating: Decent
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I've been an Orioles fan since I was but an infant in '83 when I allegedly watched them win the series on TV. :-P Now that they've got Albert Belle off their DL just eating up cash they can have some weight to throw around! They're looking good this season!
#20 May 24 2004 at 4:15 PM Rating: Good
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Now that they've got Albert Belle off their DL just eating up cash they can have some weight to throw around!

Wow, they were still paying Albert Belle? They really got screwed on that one.
#21 May 24 2004 at 4:35 PM Rating: Good
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Growing up I always followed the rule, back the home team. Unfortunately,(at least from a baseball standpoint) I live in Milwaukee.
One good thing about being a Brewers fan over the years though has been the the tailgates. When it's just about gametime, and all you fans of good teams headed into a game, I'd stay in the parking lot knowing full well I wasn't missing much.
At least this year they aren't as pathetic as they have been. Thanks Arizona!
#22 May 24 2004 at 4:51 PM Rating: Decent
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Baseball players have less of an individual impact on their teams performance or even revenue drawing than basketball players do. The Giants without Bonds are a slightly worse team, Minnesota without Garnet are the Clippers.

In proportion to their individual contributions to the sucess or failure of the team Baseball players are easily the most overpaid.

That's not because they're gready bastards, everyone's a greedy *******. The Baseball players just have the best Union.
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#23 May 24 2004 at 4:56 PM Rating: Good
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i love baseball. Your right it is a team sport. Sometimes the game can depend on what one person does (pitcher, or walk offs.) but most of the time its the fielding plays and team hitting that gets the game done.
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And SOMETIMES Grady Little tries to kill me via a burst blood vessel as yell "Bring in Timlim!!! What the hell's wrong with you!!! Pedro's done!!!"

This is the year though....I'm sure of it.
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#25 May 24 2004 at 6:12 PM Rating: Good
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HELL YA A SOX FAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol u see Sox vs Yanks the Ks? They were putting Grady Littles on instead of Ks.

ive got to add this to my Sig, DAMN YOU BOONE!!!
#26 May 24 2004 at 6:43 PM Rating: Default
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Oakland Athletics. The team in the Bay Area that's not the Giants. The good one.


Heh..he he...

Jealous much?

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