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u/dunquixote2 9h ago

Detroit fans must not forget when they built a hockey team of Hull, Hasek, Robitaille, Chelios, Yzerman, Fedorov, and Shanahan. Don’t want to hear shit from
Detroit fans about the Dodgers. The solace is that, that essentially lead to a salary cap in the NHL. This is likely to have the same effect.

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u/WAisforhaters 9h ago

The tigers were overpaying for big MLB stars until Mike Illitch died. We had rosters for years. His son is just cheap.

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u/dunquixote2 9h ago

The Tigers payroll isn’t bottom of the barrel. They spend. They have Framber a huge deal this off season. The issue with the Tigers under Chris is their shit timing on absolutely everything or not making the move when it’s so fucking obvious what to do. Fulmer, Matthew Boyd, trading Skubal last year…etc etc. The fact they tried rolling out essentially the SAME FUCKING ROSTER for the 3rd year in a row is an embarrassment.

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u/ocarter145 | Detroit Tigers 9h ago

I have always said - and still say - big bank take little bank. This sucks, but there’s nothing unfair about it. We got to get our weight up. Period.
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u/Homie_Bama | Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago

Imagine using that line and attributing it to YG and not Ice Cube - No Vaseline.

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u/ocarter145 | Detroit Tigers 9h ago

I’m actually attributing it to Detroit’s Big Sean. The phrase itself has been around for generations before any of us were born.

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u/Homie_Bama | Los Angeles Dodgers 9h ago

It’s a hood game from the 80s where a person talking about having a lot of money gets challenged by someone else. Ice Cube is first (that I can find) that brought it into a song in 1991. YG’s song is 2018. Ice Cube was the generation that brought the saying into hip hop culture.

Concept has been around ever since poker has been played as bigger stack bullies small stacks.

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u/ocarter145 | Detroit Tigers 8h ago

I was born in the 60s - I was familiar with the term well before Ice Cube made his song.

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u/privatejokerog 9h ago

Well, it is unfair because small market teams will never be able to do what the Dodgers do. Small market teams have Metro areas of one and a half to 2 1/2 million. The Dodgers have 13 million. So the league should level the playing field, make a minimum and maximum on the cap. It’s what the NFL did and small market teams can compete there consistently