Any thoughts on Juan Soto's 15 yr $765M contract?
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I wish the Red Sox signed him.
He'll produce at a very high level (barring injury) for years to come.
Ridiculously stupid. Typical Mets.
No way he justifies the back 3rd of that contract.
Good for him
Sluggers historically decline quickly in their early 30s, and they'll be paying him $51M/yr until he is 41. Seems insane to me, but Steve Cohen is free to piss away his money any way he sees fit.
I have come to not follow baseball much be of these gross salaries. I used to love the game and the
loved Ken Burns series' which showed the true love of baseball the players had in the late 40s and 50s. I guess they were a part of our greatest generation. I'll recap what I have said in the past. I loved pitchers that would go 9 innings, I loved the art of the bunt, I love the home run from true sluggers who hit the ball out of the humongous parks without fences that were brought in to pad their stats and put fans in the current stands. The stands were filled in the old days with no gimmics needed. I loved the gloves that looked like mops that showed the players' ability to catch the ball, get in front of grounders, necessarily catch the ball with two hands whenever possible. I like Aaron Judge as a player but his dropping the fly ball in the World Series this year while using one hand was fitting. I loved it when a star was a guy who hit 300 but wasn't a superstar unless he hit the 300 with 40 homers and 100 rbi's too. And in 154 games. And it should still be rbi's, not rbi.
Pitchers I remember or heard of and were the best:
Bob Feller, Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette, Sandy Koufax, Don Newcome, Johnny Sain, Whitey Ford, Lefty Gomez, Juan Marichial, and later Seaver, Maddox, Carlton all the great old guys before that time. All the great home commentators and trying to listen to their great voices and descriptions on radios that were fading in and out.
I remember the great World Series, or have heard of them. The famed Dodgers/Yankees clashes before I was familiar with the game. Personally I remember the Milwaukee Braves against the Yankees in 1957 and 1958 with the Yankees being better but the Braves winning in 1957 and Gil McDougald with the aforementioned mop for a glove leaping as what seemed to be as high as Michael Jordan did later, for a great catch on a line drive seemingly going over his head and coming down with it to preserve the win for the Yankees in 1958. He had to use one hand on that one.
NBA salaries are also obscene and only going higher plus the load management thing.
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And yet attendance and ratings continue to drop.
Watching a bunch of 7 footers jog up and down the court and chuck 3's all game is beyond lame.
I don't know if the 3 point shot ruined the game but it is definitely debatable. 7 footers who shoot
3's are usually soft players.
Especially given the cost to go watch it in person. Get dragged to some games every year for clients
Close to unwatchable anymore.
It really is.
For someone raised in the Bird/Magic/MJ period, what I see today isn't even the same sport.
I got to watch the Knicks in the late 60's and early 70's and it was a beautiful game. Bird/Magic
came along and provided beauty too, now a bunch of 7 footers shooting 3's make it unbearable. Steph Curry is fun, and the guy that got caught with a gun is fun, others, what a drag. And as much as I think the WNBA and women's basketball in general is poorly played because they just aren't strong enough, Caitlyn Clark is the most fun to watch now.
2 thoughts on MLB. I wish the Dodgers nothing but losses & batters stop fiddlin' w/ their gloves.
I'm still not totally invested with the game with all the woke and BLM stupidity. I'm ever so slowly making my way back, pitch by pitch, inning by inning, game by game. I can still hear the late great Jack Brickhouse yelling "Hey Hey. That a boy Ernie"!
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