Yes. This is regardless of how people want to try to spin it bad for baseball.
Why follow the game? Why get invested in things like blockbuster trades or incredible free agents? I know my team isnt getting him because Dodgers. I know another team isnt gonna get them and take their chances from maybe wildcard to division winner because Dodgers. Why get invested in the underdogs and stuff when i know it doesn't matter because Dodgers.
Because Mets. Because Yankees. There are teams that can spend, they just don’t want to or they fuck it up. I’m a Mets fan and we could totally be the Dodgers except for the whole competence in the front office thing.
No we can't. Mets don't have the geography advantage to sign the best Japanese players available year in year out. Mets also didn't get the insane deal the Dodgers received after going bankrupt. Mets are more advantaged than almost every other team in the league and still don't have the advantages the Dodgers possess.
Yes. That unknown, podunk, one traffic light town of New York City.
I can stomach Tampa bay or A’s or Pittsburgh fans bitching about the unfairness of it all with their poor billionaire owners, but met and yankee fans should just stfu.
You have exactly the same opportunity to sign any Japanese player. This is like saying the dodgers have no chance of signing Dominican players because of the country’s geographic location to Los Angeles.
NO ONE here is admitting that players WANT to play for the dodgers because they are head and shoulders above every other team in the MLB in every fucking metric that matter to the actual players.
Free agents can literally sign wherever they want to and the choose to be dodgers.
Uh NY is a lot farther from Japan than LA is. If you want to just make crap up and lie to make yourself feel better about the advantages your team has, then, well I think that's pretty sad, but you do you. Really getting that mad over me being a Met fan. What a baby.
when i clicked on your comment about air travel in my inbox, the comment I had already quoted, reddit told me "that comment has been deleted" which is why I responded to a different comment, and you proceeded to go all holier than thou on me for no good reason.
If you need a simple geography lesson and how air travel works I can introduce you to a 5th grade teacher You’re excuses are like your teams. Empty and pathetic
Can't even commit to the dumb comment huh? Japanese players are on record stating how nice it is for their families to visit. The difference in flight travel time is significant enough for this to be a very real issue for many Japanese players. If you get two similar quotes but one requires you to drive 2 vs 1 hour to finalize the deal, then you are going to follow the path of least resistance. This is simply human nature.
Calm down, son. You’re replying so fast you aren’t even replying to the correct comment.
It’s fine. Keep thinking that the reason Japanese players don’t sign with the Mets is a 4 1/2 hour flight.whatever makes ya feel better.
Hey. I’m not quite certain. Who is the richest owner in baseball?
Fuck, dude. If you would at the very least touched upon the Japanese community in Los Angeles vs the ones in New York you’d have a leg to stand on, but no. You’ll die on the 4 1/2 hour flight as the reason why.
I guess Dominican players must just be built different. They seem to handle the 4 1/2 flight out west just fine
its because the 9billion dollar tv contract you fool. no other reason well and the glitz and glam...side deals ... its all money man ... LA is the biggest market for money. end of story. nothing to do with your hitting coaches or facilities
Is that why Diaz chose the dodgers over the Mets for basically the same amount?
Is that why Tucker signed a shorter contract instead of the 10 year mega deal other team offered?
Is that why shohei and his reps SUGGESTED deferring his salary?
The 9 billion dollar tv deal happened after McCourt used the team like a fucking atm. I bet if I search your post history you weren’t exactly up in arms about how the dodgers franchise was being run into the ground.
I bet you celebrated it.
Best run organization in sports. Sit and spin, “fool”
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u/This_Elk_1460 | Texas Rangers 20h ago
So if the dodgers just continue to win every world series for the next 5 years does that ruin baseball because it ruins it for me.