Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…
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@George-K said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Hmm, that actually might even save baseball.
Even more-so than Football, there are a CRAP-TON of Athletes that are on the verge of big league talent but will never be called up. These players average about $65K per year.. Attendance at the AAA games is generally about 5K-10K, roughly 1/4 of some of the MLB games and MANY people prefer the atmosphere and experience of AAA ball.
I bet you could offer those players guaranteed 5 year contracts worth $100K minimum per year guaranteed and $200K max guaranteed contracts with a non-compete (no going to MLB for 5 years), Simplify the contracts so no agent is really necessary and the player gets to keep their pay, and I’ll bet a helluva lot of players would sign up. Each team would have a hard cap… Negotiate streaming, radio, and cable deals… I bet it would work. Heck, I bet you could even get some of the small market MLB teams to make the switch.
That would be brilliant.
Me/rry/Christmas
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@LuFins-Dad said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
@George-K said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Hmm, that actually might even save baseball.
Even more-so than Football, there are a CRAP-TON of Athletes that are on the verge of big league talent but will never be called up. These players average about $65K per year.. Attendance at the AAA games is generally about 5K-10K, roughly 1/4 of some of the MLB games and MANY people prefer the atmosphere and experience of AAA ball.
I bet you could offer those players guaranteed 5 year contracts worth $100K minimum per year guaranteed and $200K max guaranteed contracts with a non-compete (no going to MLB for 5 years), Simplify the contracts so no agent is really necessary and the player gets to keep their pay, and I’ll bet a helluva lot of players would sign up. Each team would have a hard cap… Negotiate streaming, radio, and cable deals… I bet it would work. Heck, I bet you could even get some of the small market MLB teams to make the switch.
That would be brilliant.
I agree.
A little something to add...If you are watching the CWS, the announcers have said several times this is a very, very special year. Every year, you have four or five guys that most of the people who cover the CWS say will eventually play in the Bigs. This year, they say the talent level is the highest they've ever seen. There is so much talent, if you held a draft out of just this year's teams, there is enough pitching, hitting and defensive talent to field an entire team at the MLB level. That's 26 guys. 26.
Wonder how many of those guys will ever make it to the Bigs?
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@Mik said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
AAA ball is just a very small notch down from MLB, much cheaper and more entertaining. The parks are great.
I’ve commented to you before about the Pirates, Reds, Royals, etc… ought to pull out of MLB. They simply will not succeed consistently against the big market teams with no salary cap. They may have a breakout year with young players, but they will eventually lose them to the Dodgers/Yankees…
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https://sports.yahoo.com/plaschke-dodgers-pride-night-feels-054612716.html
Dodger Stadium has rarely looked more empty.
Dodger Stadium has rarely felt more full.
An hour before the Dodgers hosted the San Francisco Giants on Friday night, in the strangest of sights, there were no players in the dugout, no players on the field, and barely a couple of hundred fans in the stands.
Sister Unity and Sister Dominia didn’t mind.
They stood in front of the third-base line and embraced their Community Hero Award medals as if they were accepting an Oscar.
They waved to a handful of people waving back. They basked in the scattered cheers. They swept dramatically off the field smiling with painted faces and swooshing their blue and black habits.
Outside the gates, several thousand were protesting their existence. Throughout the Catholic community, thousands more showered them with scolding prayers and calls for boycotts.
They didn’t listen. They didn’t run. They didn’t cave. The Dodgers, who caved once, didn’t cave again.
In a four-minute ceremony that was the culmination of three weeks of controversy, the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence activist organization was finally honored as the highlight of the Dodgers’ 10th annual LGBTQ+ Pride Night.
You could have heard a pin drop. You could have seen hearts soar.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
You could have seen hearts soar.
Except you didn't, because it's a nonsense metaphor and there was no one fucking there.
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Except you didn't, because it's a nonsense metaphor and there was no one fucking there.
Well, yeah, they were busy watching the ceremony or scrolling on their smartphones while waiting for the game to start.
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@Axtremus said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
@Aqua-Letifer said in Big crowd outside of Dodgers Park tonight…:
Except you didn't, because it's a nonsense metaphor and there was no one fucking there.
Well, yeah, they were busy watching the ceremony or scrolling on their smartphones while waiting for the game to start.
Read the article. Any article.
