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AAHHH! Too . . . much . . . bullshit!!
Brain . . . can't . . . function . . .
MUST RESPOND, MUST RESPOND!!!
To Keith:
First of all, the Goat told me you sounded really pissed off in your response but I told him, naww that's just the nature of the Dojo. But then I read it and it did sound a little like you were tak
ing it personally or something. I hope that's not the truth. And if it is, STOP IT YOU PUSSY!! Don't you do that man! Don't you start getting all weird on us. If you want weird, I'll give you weird. I'll make you cuddle up and watch Boat Trip with me. Swami you're invited too, since it's your favorite movie now. But I call middle cushion, you pole smokers.Now, I didn't think I had to quote sources about how well baseball has been doing in the past 10 years. I thought it was pretty obvious. But here's an article from a couple of years ago on just how well baseball is doing financially: http://www.bnet.com/2403-13502_23-210671.html
I'm not going to defend that anymore because it's irrefutable and anyone saying anything different is just plain wrong. There might be highs and lows in different parks but as a whole baseball is doing more than fine.
And notice that not one of you had anything to say about my franchise point. If baseball franchises are doing so horribly, then why no movement? Why no bankruptcies. In other leagues, teams that are struggling move or fold faster than the rate of Rich's blood alcohol content at a party. If owners were doing so poorly, you would see teams pack it up and move to greener pastures. You think the Pirates are losing money all this time? FUUUUUCK NOOOO!!! You know who is losing money? The Rays, you know why? Because they're putting an honest effort in trying to win, that's why. And it's resulted in an American League pennant. It's not their fault that their fans suck big donkey dick and gave them no support last year. You gonna blame the Yankees for that too? The Yankees, Sox, and Cubs are the only games the Rays always sell out. Don't blame the big market teams because certain markets' fans are shit.
And no Keith you didn't say the Yankees were the devil, you just said this,
"Well, Check out what the Evil Empire is doing to baseball and I am very curious to hear the Dojo's support for or against it."
No that doesn't paint the Yankees in a negative light at all. You didn’t use a pic of Darth Vader with a NY emblem to make a point (which I absolutely love anyway). No, none of this is about the how Yankees are bad. Go sell your passive aggressiveness somewhere else. I'm not buying. This is all about the Yankees. How come this never comes up when the Yankees are not champions? Only when they win the World Series, suddenly everything in baseball is unfair. Things aren't balanced.
You know, you fucking Palin lovers are all hypocrites. What happened to CAPITALISM! The Yankees are the epitome of your beloved economic system. But when it's not you, not your team, suddenly Socialism looks pretty good doesn't it?
The truth is I would be in favor of a cap in baseball if I actually thought it would help the game. And they installed a minimum as well. But has it helped in basketball? The NBA has teams actually admitting they are not playing to win a championship. When the cap becomes a team goal for the year, there is a major problem.
The NFL almost has it right, but the rookie salaries are out of control and as soon as there is a taste of an uncapped year, everyone wants more. Then there are all the unappeasable people that just complain about too much parody in the league and long for the super powered teams.
As for ratings, I never said anything about the World Series. I did not claim the World Series alone had record ratings. But lets analyze them anyway.
The problem is that when you argue something like ratings or movie gross, you MUST take into account time periods. The ratings from 1980 are way higher than 2010. NO SHIT! Of course they are, that's not something to put into an argument. There were 3 networks, no cable TV, no Internet. People's entertainment dollar is spread so thin these days anything above a 10 rating is a great success.
The fact is that over 20 million people watched game 4 and 6 last year. Not just a little bump up from '08, it was a lot up. It was also the most watched WS since '04. And that was the Red Sox.
"I got no more use for dis guy."
-Joe Pecci
To Regs:
Sometimes when I hear you respond on here it takes me back to the famous line from Kevin Spacey in Superman Returns . . . "WRROOOONNGG!!!" And by the way, Jack is a life-long Yankees fan. Just a tidbit of info.
Please find where I ever said that the Yankees payroll does not give them a competitive advantage. Please, please, find it. It seems that the only way you guys can argue with me is to shove words down my throat like you're making Foie gras. (Learned that one watching Gordon Ramsey, he rules!)
I said the contrary, "What spending more does is give you a chance to win championships every year."
I think that pretty much says that yes the Yanks do have an advantage. But that's suppose to be a bad thing right? An unfair thing. We'll how did this advantage come to be? I guess all the money is shit down from the money fairy every year and they just happen to be Yankee fans so OOOOHHH well, fuck everyone else.
The Yanks have this advantage because of the greatest owner in sports history. No one had a TV deal before Steinbrenner thought of it. It was his innovation and he took the Yankees to heights that no one could ever imagine in terms of value. Everything that organization has, it has earned fair and square using your oh-so-precious capitalism.
And by the way it started as a TV deal. They now own the network. It's just one more thing they do better than everyone else. And stop living in a vacuum Regs, EVERYTHING is more expensive in New York. So if it's more expensive to put on a broadcast, that's more cost to the Yankees overhead. Your actually now making points FOR the Yankees. They have to pay more property taxes, more to the concessions, more for insurance; the list goes on and on.
You guys think your taking shots at the Yankees when you cite how much money they spend? I look at it as how amazing their organization is. My team makes more money and spends more money than any of yours. Ha ha, Yankees Win, thaaaaaaaaaa Yankees Win.
Regs then you actually said, "Take any profession in the World and give one company 4-5 times more money than a competitor and see who turns out a better product."
Did you really say that in this economic time where I don't know how many fortune 500 companies took a sharp nosedive into the abyss because their business practices sucked deep dish yak dick?
Look at Vizio, a little start up flat screen company that is now taking major pieces of the pie away from the big boys. Why? Great product. Put out a great product and people should come, money should come. Unless you’re Tampa Bay I guess. If that city loses its team they have no one to blame but themselves.
And talk about delusional Regs, stop looking up data while watching Glen Beck and his crazy chalkboard. The Yankees attendance last year was 3.7 million. 2nd in the MLB by fewer than 100,000 to the Dodgers. The Brewers took in over 3 mil last year. That's fucking great! Why are you disparaging them? They are doing a good job bringing in fans. They are doing good job putting a watchable product on the field. Weird that you would call them "lowly." Especially when they are now considered a playoff contender. Perhaps pride in one's own team is the source of the problem here.
I'm done wit dis guy!
-Joe Pecci
To Swami:
I feel for you man, I really do. I have no idea what it would be like to love baseball as much as I do and be a Pirates fan. No sarcasm intended. It must be rough. But then again you have 6 superbowls as a Steelers fan, so go fuck yourself.
Don’t say “maybe” the Pirates have had bad management. Don’t say “maybe” that’s led to their ineptness. Own it! They have fucked the fans over again and again and again and again for over 20 years. Why can the Rays after being purchased by the current owners 4 years ago put a World Series team on the field and a storied franchise like the Pirates have been in the cellar all this time? Why do the Marlins have 2 titles and the only treasure the Pirates have found lately is gelt. (Gelt is that gold coin wrapped chocolate they give to kids at Hanukkah, for all you gentiles out there.)
Of course they could do better with a $200 million payroll. But they don’t have that. They didn’t earn that. The Yankees didn’t just acquire their wealth. They’ve earned it with 100 years of winning. 100 years of baseball legends, 27 titles and 40 pennants, an innovative owner that had ideas like none before him . . . .
Come on Republicans, THE YANKEES ARE THE TEAM FOR YOU!!!!!
To Everyone:
Kiss my Hebrew pinstriped ass! Let’s Go Yankees!
13 comments:
"Baruch Ha Shem"!!!!!
......and ouch.
One more thing, I've seen Boat Trip also. It is a funny movie.
GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was actually your brother I was referring to about the competitive advantage.
I will admit, I am jealous of the Yankees. When they make a mistake with a free agent or trade, they simply discard him and sign somebody else. When the Brewers do the same thing (Bill Hall, Jeff Tampon), they must wait until the contract expires in order to use that money. The precision involved in running a small market team is insane. Large market teams don't have that.
Who came first, the chicken or the egg? What a who cares argument..
Hey Koko, where can one go to get deep dish yak dick? Is it in Pittsburgh or Tampa?
First off…..Of course there are no hard feelings…it is against the Dojo Man Law.
However, I just felt the need to straighten out some flawed rhetoric you were spewing in defense of your so called ripping me a new one.
I was having an educated discussion on the merits of Bud Selig investigating a new system and you came back with a WWF Randy Macho Man Savage……..Yeaaaa I just ripped you a new arshole retort that I felt needed serious retribution. And it really chides me when your lackey the GOAT doesn’t add value to the conversation just gives the Fist Pump argument the Yankeees Rule! Take that! We Rule! We always win!
However, back to the issue at hand.
1 Yes, I used the Evil Empire as a catalyst but did not intend to indict them as the root of the downfall of baseball. And the logo was used for purely entertainment purposes.
2. Thank you for posting an article from a few years ago that supposedly backs up your argument on baseball being profitable. I then like how you go on to say that ratings systems are flawed because times are changing. Yes, I do realize that. I simply posted the 80’s and 90’s ratings to give everyone a backdrop into how the ratings decline year in and year out.
Nobody argued that baseball franchises are going bankrupt. However, if they tried to compete with the Yankees payroll…..then they would go bankrupt. And that is kind of the point.
Rather than risking bankrupting the team, just like the Marlins did when they won the world Series and then dumped every player the following season teams just hum along and accept mediocrity or below because that’s all they can do. Now, is that a fun system for a SPORT to have?
This is not school or the yellow daisy youth soccer league. It’s a sport…..and sports are all about competition. To have such an imbalance ruins your overall product.
Kudos to the Yankees for exploiting that. Again, I am not saying they are the devil for doing it. Just, an ugly by-product that needs to be fixed somehow.
The Yankees Rule! Your Jealous the Yankees Rule!
I love the way Koko used my drinking prowess as an example in the rant. Anyway, I don't hate the Yankees, but you can still go fuck yourself. Your a communist!!!!!!
Ah yes thank you Regs and there in lies the main problem of it all.
GUARANTEED CONTRACTS!
That's the cancer in baseball. The best thing the NFL ever did was get rid of guaranteed contracts in a sport where you would think they are deserved the most. The NFL player risk way more physical injury than baseball but yet a player like Carl Pavano collected a hefty paycheck for years riding the Yankee pine.
And yes the advantage the Yanks have is that they can absorb it where other teams are hurt immensely by it.
Getting rid of guaranteed contract would go a long way in leveling the playing field. However you still need to get some of these cheapskate owners out and some passionate baseball businessmen in.
Nice to see Blaze on here more often. No job suits you man, see if you can make a living at it and I'll go into business with you.
And Keith, I just think you harbor some deep resentment towards the Yankees. There was definitely some subliminal messages in your post that was about a "new system." More like the Yankees are ruining the current system.
Also it's just really amazing how differently the Yankees are treated when they are and are not the champs. Now that they're the champs again, they are just thought of as "so superior" and "no one can compete." "It's too unfair." I don't know, but I must be watching a different sport. It seems to me that pleanty of teams are competing with the Yankees and they are all from many different markets that are not going bankrupt.
It's so fucking hard to make it to the World Series and then actually win it. Baseball is so great because of the hard. Only 8 teams total get into the postseason. The Yanks had to grind it out in just about every game. It's not like the competition was so ridiculously weak. Any of the teams the Yanks faced last year had an honest chance to beat them. Even the damn Twins who got swept, but those games were close most of the way. And the Yanks beat a very, very talented Phillies team last year as well.
I give it up to Rivera, he's the one ridiculously unfair advantage the Yankees really have. He gives them something that no other pitcher in the history of the game has been able to do to the level that he does it. And what is he? He's a homegrown Yankees, so everyone just has to suck it on that one.
Put Rivera on another team for his career and who knows how the cards fall.
Also, I don't quite agree with your assesment of the Goats comments. If he was just spouting crap I'd be the first to knock him on it. He makes pleanty of good points and that hookers and alcohlol line from the last post made me have to leave my desk so I could go laugh out loud.
Hey, what are ya gonna do? They can't all be gems keith! And i don't fist pump! What am i from the fucken jersey shore or somthing?!?!
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I hear their proposing to put the yankees on stilts next year to make things a little more fair.
Swami Sayz:
Wow! A whole new post to answer a thread. I like when Koko gets his feathers all ruffled and his Hebrew pin-striped ahh-noose all puckered up. Now I know what to talk about when Koko and I get stuck in an all-in poker pot. And Koko, yank on your brother’s string, I think it got stuck there for a minute. Thanks for the Pirates sympathy, and for sparing me the “My Cousin Vinny” quote. But for the record, the Steelers have 6 rings.
For the Record, I do beleive that the Dojo had an official vote on the greatest NFL franchise and the Packers won.
Oh that's right, they do have 6, my bad E.
And yes the Pack did win that vote but it was taken before the Steelers won their 6th.
If I had to rank them now, the Steelers are now #1.
And you guys better be careful with the side comments about the Goat, if you brew up a shit storm in him, I will not be held responsible for his comments.
Don't pull a no no and go loco on BroKo everybody...
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