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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
last time I seen us this distressed would be the late 70’s. That brought on Whitey and trophies. Hopefully we can repeat that.  |
Here's the problem - the economics of the game have finally gotten too far out of whack.
I just don't know how anybody but maybe 4-6 teams can keep a genuine star these days.
If Walker is Pujols, we lose him in 4 years.
Shit, we'll struggle to keep Winn.
And I'm a big fan of shitting on DeWitt (especially his dipshit son) but look at what the Twins are going through. That team hasn't exactly spent lavishly but now they're sitting on $400 million in debt and in trying to sell the team they're struggling to get bids above $1.5 billion.
Meanwhile the Celtics just sold for 4 times that.
And the reason the Twins can't get that isn't baseball writ large -- it's baseball in small and mid-markets.
Until the Dodgers and Mets just blew the top off the landscape, any team could keep its best player if they really wanted to. Now that's just not the case unless they decide to sign early (like Witt) and even those deals are massively risky anymore.
It's going to be really REALLY tough to build a long-term contender for about 2/3 of the teams in the league going forward.