ECM Sports Bar

[Mike]

I'm actually happy the Ravens beat Denver I hate the Broncos. As for the Yankees I just hope they win tonight and get this bull shit over with. Congratualtions on buying another championship! Baseball really needs a fucking salary cap.

[Abailey4]

My Niners let another close one slip away on a fucking trick play! Shit! Oh well I guess I can be happy it was close especially against the Colts.

[Mike]

My Niners let another close one slip away on a fucking trick play! Shit! Oh well I guess I can be happy it was close especially against the Colts.

This was a great game against a good team.

[v6sicksspeed]

Congratualtions on buying another championship!

you gotta pay to play mike - you of all people should know that when the sox suddenly bumped up their 07 salary 20% and came home with a championship.

1 more to go...

[Abailey4]

^Yeah but that doesnt work for everybody. Just ask Danny Snyder. LOL!

[slipkord]

For some reason this baseball season hasn't been as exciting as the past few yrs. I'm a diehard baseball fan but stopped watching after the reg season ended...

[Abailey4]

Yeah I usually only tune in during the playoffs and world series but I've watched maybe part of one game this whole post season.

[slipkord]

Hell I've only watched a few NFL games this yr too, maybe a few quarters worth. But, I've caught all the Gators games! lol That's the only thing I keep up with anymore is college football.

[Abailey4]

Oh I've watched almost every football game, even when I'm at work. LOL! Just because I'm obsessed and need to be up to par every minute on my fantasy stats.

[Mike]

Congratualtions on buying another championship!

you gotta pay to play mike - you of all people should know that when the sox suddenly bumped up their 07 salary 20% and came home with a championship.

1 more to go...

They did bump there salary 20%, and it's not the Sox that strggule to compete. The ownership of the Red Sox is able to put a good team on the field but, there are other that cannot compete. You can't tell me that you think it is right to have a $201,449,189 payroll in this economy. The Sox are guilty of it also but, they put a limit on what they would pay someone, and the Yankees do not. Honestly it's ruining the game.

[05AccordV6]

Congratualtions on buying another championship!

you gotta pay to play mike - you of all people should know that when the sox suddenly bumped up their 07 salary 20% and came home with a championship.

1 more to go...

They did bump there salary 20%, and it's not the Sox that strggule to compete. The ownership of the Red Sox is able to put a good team on the field but, there are other that cannot compete. You can't tell me that you think it is right to have a $201,449,189 payroll in this economy. The Sox are guilty of it also but, they put a limit on what they would pay someone, and the Yankees do not. Honestly it's ruining the game.

Cry me a river, you are aware that you had precisely THREE homegrown Players on your 2004 WS Championship team right?  Besides Varitek, Bill Mueller and Trot Nixon, I'm pretty sure you had ZERO other homegrown talent.  You traded for  or signed in FA for EVERY SINGLE OTHER PLAYER that was on that team, so don't gimme that BS about buying a championship, cuase that championship was as bought as any in sports.  let see: Derek Lowe, Pedro Martinez, Curt Schilling, David Ortiz, Manny Ramirez, Orlando Cabrera, Johnny Damon, Bronson Arroyo, and pretty much every relief pitcher.

The difference is that the revenue sharing program was designed to help smaller market teams, most of those owners have the $$ to spend on FA quite easily, they just choose not to or instead to pocket the profit of re-investing into their organization.

[Mike]

No compairison in the payrolls of the two teams. The 2004 Red Sox payroll was 127,298,500 the 2009 Yankees pay roll is 201,499,189. Be realistic they overspend you cannot argue other wise.

[Mike]

To be fair in all this it’s obvious I have disdain for the Yankees as a Red Sox fan but, they are just the catalyst for this issue. They are the team that started it all, and continue to take salaries to far. My team is guilty of following the curve in order to compete that is for sure but, ultimately it’s the commissioner that needs to take control. The payroll issues much like the steroid issues are the fault of the commissioner’s office. Revenue sharing is a joke, and baseball really needs a salary cap.  The NFL, and NHL have it right, and the MLB as a whole needs to swallow its pride and do something about this issue. Of course your going to win when you overpay all of the good free agents. I would really like to see the GM’s of any of these large market teams (Red Sox included) compete if they were all on level starting ground.

[Mike]

Unfortunatly I think that big dork Texiera is going to hit 2 homeruns tonight, and the Yankees will win 5 - 3

[ROLO]

2009 NY YANKEES WORLD SERIES CHAMPIONS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



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