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    Once you get to the playoffs, you have pretty much the same chance as everyone else to win a ring. Besides, that makes no sense. Since this team has three really good starters and an explosive offense, it's made to win a short series. You're missing the forest because of the trees.
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    Plus evaluating the value of amateur and international assets with very little available data in a setting that can punish a succesful team.
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    Best post of 2012 so far.
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    "Knoweledgeable observers" would not call them small market either. There is a tier that's right between small and big where the Orioles reside and the Nationals are pulling out of.
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    But first, i'm hiring a private Psychologist for Padilla and putting Silva on a Low-carb diet!
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    The #3 part of the equation, which is ability to spend. If the Phillies had an 80 million dollar payroll, they would not be considered "large market". Over the last five years, the Nationals have made offers in excess of 100 million to three players (Fielder, Teixeira, Werth) offers in excess of 80 million CJ Wilson and some others. They have laid offers for most high-profile FA's over the last couple of years. This tells you that the most important component "ability to spend" is there. The Nats could support a payroll in excess of 120 million right now. And as we know, viewership is fickle. If the Nats put up a contender, their value, attendance and TV ratings would go up dramatically. The thing to see here though, is the fact that they have money to burn. One aspect that is true of any and all small market teams is the fact that they never have "money to burn". Ask Tampa.
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    Personal experience beats available data. Got it.
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    He still had 20 HR's and 51 XBH even in an atrocious year last year. He could greatly benefit from DH'ing and platooning.
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    Ibanez would be very good platooning vs righties at Yankee stadium.
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    I am preparing my resume as we speak.
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    The Orioles have been in the mid-upper echelon of spending in MLB several times over the last decade. You could say they're mid-tier, but definitely not small market like KC, TB, SD, PIT, FLA, OAK, CLE, ARI, CIN. Even now, in a full-out rebuilding effort, they are still not bottom-10 in the league in payroll. Their profile suggests they could sustain a payroll in excess of 140 million if they were to build a contender. Living or not living there is not important when assessing the facts, which are out there in the form of numbers.
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    I predicted before the off-season that the Red Sox would not spend a lot of money. I should be Red Sox acting GM and president of operations.
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    I also predicted that the Red Sox would, in fact, have a 25-man roster all of 2011 (until September) and would start with one in 2012. I should supplant Larry Lucchino.
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    I predicted the Sox would not get CJ Wilson, Albert Pujols, or Prince Fielder. I should be GM of the Red Sox.
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    The Orioles have never been, and are not, a small market team. The split is currently not 90-10, and the Nationals are getting, in order to offset the MASN issue, a big bite out of the revenue-sharing program. In other words, they play in a large market, have considerable sources of revenue, and have shown a willingness and ability to spend.
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    Definitely bro. Definitely.
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    A team's market size, for baseball purposes, is defined three things: Its actual market size (as in, people and viewer population) its revenue stream, and the team's ability to spend.
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    You don't even know bro. The land is now infested with Giants fans.....
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    You really really really need to get over yourselves. You had nothing "pegged". Like the rest of us, you know absolutely nothing about the internal workings of this baseball team, or any for that matter.
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    So you know all Nats fans Fred?
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    Brain.....melting....
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