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Man Posada is money tonight
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Let's hope Mo gets another shot in the bottom of the 10th
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nice play
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s***
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6-4 KC
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Let's have a pop fly Melky
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Nice Robby. Some productive outs should get him in..
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KFarns looks nasty tonight
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Ortiz HR 5-4KC
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KC up 5-3
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Farnsworth vs. the top of the order? I dont like it
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That looked like it hurt
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eh...that works
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Good stuff. Let's get it done now before Jenks comes in.
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Both tonight were absolute strikes
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I kinda like where this is headed though. Myers could possibly pitch the 8th, even if not we use proctor, and we still have farns and Mo at the top of the ladder in case this goes extra innings..
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Leave Myers in until Thome? He gets a break in between...
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KC just went up 4-3
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Looks like Joe is piecing together this inning. We may dodge a bullet after all
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no. Drafted: Signed as an undrafted free agent by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1998.
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So far so good with Veras. Although I agree I probably would bring in Proctor..
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Whether or not it's working is irrelevant (although it seems to be now). Buying championships isn't easy, just ask Snyder and Steinbrenner. The Bruce Smith/Deion Sanders years were when Snyder was running the team. He has now handed control to Gibbs and is doing exactly what Gibbs wants him to do as far as personnel. While you are right in that the skins aren't adding top-flite football players, they are adding the best free agent players available at the position, and paying them like even better players than they are. That's exactly what the Yankees do. They pay a little more than any other team would be willing to, even for only the guys who are the best available. Would you give a guy like Adam Archuleta a 6yr 30 million dollar deal? That's the same deal that Roy Williams got, and they are hardly the same player. They gave Randle El 7 years and 31 mil. Burress, a #1 WR, not a #3 like Randle El, got 6 and 25.
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How are the skins feeling the repurcussions? They have been pushing money to the future for years and it hasn't caught up to them yet. Every year sports writers say this is the year that it all comes crashing down for them, and nothing happens. All they did this year was spend a ton of money in Free Agency on marginal players, and parted ways with one backup LB in Lavar Arrington. They re-structured all of their high salary players, instead paying out the money to them in bonuses so that the players did not end up losing any money at all. They also hired a OC for head coach money, and gave their DC head coach money as well, since that does not count against the cap. The Redskins truly are masters at manipulating the cap and working the system, and it would be crazy to think that the Yankees and Sox would not do the same.
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I agree. As I said earlier, a cap would make the competition more balanced, but teams like the Yankees would still have a (smaller) advantage.
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Right, but the same thing happens in cap systems too. Look at the NFL. The Redskins have been in 'salary cap hell' for years supposedly, but every year Snyder is able to throw money at the problem by restructuring contracts and paying the players in ways that don't count as much against the cap. Cash creates cap in the NFL, and the same would be true in MLB. Sure, the Yankees do what they can to circumvent the rules and have an unfair advantage right now, but they would find a way to do it with a cap too. But also rician, as far as your Abreu comment, the writer mentions how the Yankees being able to take on that contract actually helps a team like the Phils. They can use the money they saved to rebuild and add 2-3 quality guys for the money they were paying one guy in Abreu. Do you think the Rangers would be as good of a team now (although they're not great) had they not been able to dump A-Rod's contract?