Yankees have made the call

[A.E]

I also have to admit that a salary cap is why the NFL far exceeds MLB in popularity. Every team has pretty much the same amount of talent so every team has an opportunity to make the playoffs, there is enourmous amounts of parody in the NFL.

WRONG.

The NFL doesn't play an 82 game or 162 game regular season and while the NFL is in-season, there aren't games on television virtually every night of the week. A big reason the NFL is king is b/c we anticipate watching the games all week long and that anticipation climaxes each Sunday afternoon and/or Monday night. The NFL wouldn't as popular if games were the season was longer and games were played as much as they are in baseball, basketball, and hockey. Another reason the NFL is king is because of the nature of the sport. The scary truth is that people love violent sh*t and violence is becoming almost too much of an issue during NFL games. The NFL is fast-paced, action packed, and lets face it...with each generation that passes, people just get bored of watching baseball. Baseball is slow, a lot time spent in a mutli-pitch stalemate between pitcher & hitter...and more times than not, low scoring games.

I don't care to hear people talk about all this parity in the NFL when the Super Bowl has been dominated by the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers since 2001. Teams like the Chiefs, Raiders, Rams, Bucs all seem to have a shot at the 2010 NFL post-season but look at the MLB and see the Reds, Rays, Padres. It's much of the same between both leagues...Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Phillies dominating postseason appearances but yet so do the Patriots, Colts, Eagles, Packers, Chargers, etc.

 

[STLZACH]

You're crazy if you think that for the Cardinals to make it to the World Series again is by trading Albert Pujols. He is currently one of the most prolific hitters in all of baseball and would easily without a shadow of a doubt already make it into the HOF with the resume that he has. If I had Albert Pujols on my team then I would be the happiest fan in the world.

I would rather have Ludwick back along with whoever we get for Pujols.

Then again, I haven't gave two <Censored>s about baseball in like 2 years.

 

[cruzg24]

WRONG.

The NFL doesn't play an 82 game or 162 game regular season and while the NFL is in-season, there aren't games on television virtually every night of the week. A big reason the NFL is king is b/c we anticipate watching the games all week long and that anticipation climaxes each Sunday afternoon and/or Monday night. The NFL wouldn't as popular if games were the season was longer and games were played as much as they are in baseball, basketball, and hockey. Another reason the NFL is king is because of the nature of the sport. The scary truth is that people love violent sh*t and violence is becoming almost too much of an issue during NFL games. The NFL is fast-paced, action packed, and lets face it...with each generation that passes, people just get bored of watching baseball. Baseball is slow, a lot time spent in a mutli-pitch stalemate between pitcher & hitter...and more times than not, low scoring games.

I don't care to hear people talk about all this parity in the NFL when the Super Bowl has been dominated by the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers since 2001. Teams like the Chiefs, Raiders, Rams, Bucs all seem to have a shot at the 2010 NFL post-season but look at the MLB and see the Reds, Rays, Padres. It's much of the same between both leagues...Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Phillies dominating postseason appearances but yet so do the Patriots, Colts, Eagles, Packers, Chargers, etc.

Thats completely not true. The Padres didnt even make the playoffs this year and the Reds made the playoffs before this year in 1995. Any team can beat any other team any given week. And thats not true about baseball, when was the last time the Nationals, Royals, or Pirates made the playoffs? Look at the NFL, the Lions are really competitive,the Bengals had great success last year, Heck even the Dolphins made the playoffs recently. Its easier to turn it around in the NFL as opposed to MLB. Teams can win a lot more quickly than in baseball. There isnt trully a dominant team in the NFL at all. Great teams lose a lot in the NFL as opposed to MLB where its always the same high payroll teams that are headlining the playoffs.

 

[Elite]

Thats completely not true. The Padres didnt even make the playoffs this year and the Reds made the playoffs before this year in 1995. Any team can beat any other team any given week. And thats not true about baseball, when was the last time the Nationals, Royals, or Pirates made the playoffs? Look at the NFL, the Lions are really competitive,the Bengals had great success last year, Heck even the Dolphins made the playoffs recently. Its easier to turn it around in the NFL as opposed to MLB. Teams can win a lot more quickly than in baseball. There isnt trully a dominant team in the NFL at all. Great teams lose a lot in the NFL as opposed to MLB where its always the same high payroll teams that are headlining the playoffs.

The Patriots and the Steelers have been in and/or won the Superbowl 5 times this last. The Yankees and Red Sox have been in and/or won 6 World Series this decade. Very close numbers that suggest their isn't as much parity as you think their is.

 

[Mexi]

Probably cause the Dodgers consistently can afford a large payroll and spend 5 million dollars on late first round picks..

hahaha
Dodgers are poor as hell

we didnt even offer arb last year to ODog or Wolf
large payorll is an overstatement. its been shrinking.
look at last year, our biggest signing was Jamey Carroll
this year, i was SHOCKED we signed Ted Lilly. I thought for sure he was a goner

as for the 5M on the draft pick.
idk how the hell that happened. every expert thought they were essentially punting the pick drafting someone we knew we couldnt sign

because of that, we wont sign anybody of note this offseason though. Lilly is the big splash

 

[A.E]

Thats completely not true. The Padres didnt even make the playoffs this year and the Reds made the playoffs before this year in 1995. Any team can beat any other team any given week. And thats not true about baseball, when was the last time the Nationals, Royals, or Pirates made the playoffs? Look at the NFL, the Lions are really competitive,the Bengals had great success last year, Heck even the Dolphins made the playoffs recently. Its easier to turn it around in the NFL as opposed to MLB. Teams can win a lot more quickly than in baseball. There isnt trully a dominant team in the NFL at all. Great teams lose a lot in the NFL as opposed to MLB where its always the same high payroll teams that are headlining the playoffs.

Bad NFL teams can amount a competitive season(s) b/c they have money. Despite how bad the Lions have been since Barry Sanders, the team makes a <Censored>load and they do try to sign veteran free agents each off-season. Outside of the Carolina Panthers, no team in the NFL came into this season opting to spend as little on players as possible, dump about every veteran worth a sh*t, and then plan to win later on down the road. Just about every team in the NFL opens camp with the mentality that they can win games, make the playoffs, and compete for a championship. These teams do what they can to bring in as much talent to help make the dreams a reality and just about every team has the resources to do so. There's a few NFL teams that can outspend others but all stadium issues aside, all 32 NFL teams are big business. You just can't compare the state of the Royals, Pirates, or Nationals to any NFL team.

I could care less when the last time the Royals or the Pirates made the postseason b/c their ownership is cheap and they don't make any legit efforts to field a competitive team. Is it possible for the smaller markets to get players and compete for a division crown? Hell yes. Look at what Mark Attanasio has done since he bought the Milwaukee Brewers. Now the Brewers just can't compete with the likes of the Yankees when it comes to a bidding war over CC Sabathia but Attanasio has sunk as much money as possible into the team he puts onto the field and fans started to come out to the ballpark again.

NFL teams can turn sh*t around faster b/c there's way more player movement year-to-year and rookies have a much faster impact on their new team. How long does it take the average MLB draft pick to make a big league 25-man roster? You definitely don't see any guys less than a year removed from college leading the league in anything during their rookie seasons of MLB. Only eite players in the NFL are also landing contracts longer than 3-4 years too.