Not really. The team has won 4 titles in 15 years and high priced free agents have played major roles in all them. (A lot of dead money has resulted too, no one can deny that.)
The team owners have been raking it in in spite of that dead money.
Championships + profits + market appreciation. I don't see how you can argue with the results.
If you pick on the team's current record it doesn't look like spending correlates to winning. But it's a franchise that has generally had a lot of success with high priced talent since Henry bought the team.
Yes, infinity is one of those concepts that goes a little beyond what our minds can handle-my mind, anyway.
And of course, as you well know, the product of any number divided by zero is infinity.
Of course not. At the same time, no one in their right mind would expect the Rays to spend as much on players as us or the Dodgers.
There are big inequities in revenues and that's why the luxury tax came into being.
The owners are not all in the same boat. There's a large gap between the rich teams and the poor teams. The cap is only an issue for the rich teams, like us.
We're lucky that our owner is willing to pay some tax.
Fans can be as optimistic or pessimistic as they want.
I think at this point it's realistic to have some doubts we're going to surge past both the Yankees and the Rays.
The fact is we're 2 games out of the second Wild Card spot on June 13.
The team has been hugely disappointing thus far and no one should be shaking their pompoms.
On the other hand it's the same team that was the class of baseball last year.
Every fan can decide for themselves whether there's reason for optimism or not. I still have optimism but I wouldn't bet a pile of money on us either.
Bottom line is there's a lot of uncertainty either way, and it's a long freakin' season.
I guess hockey is a crazy game too.
The visiting team won 5 of the 7 games.
The Bruins won by 7-2 and 5-1 scores in St. Louis.
But St. Louis won the last 3 in Boston.
The Red Sox don't match up on an EE deal in any way. We don't have what the Mariners want, and a RH slugger should be far from our biggest priority.
Our obvious need is the bullpen. On offense, we need the current guys to perform to their abilities.