Comments on: Dodgers reach six-year, $147 million deal with Zack Greinke

By: mrchainbluelightning

mrchainbluelightning — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:41:54 +0000

You’re directly replying to me…. again

“stop reading my replies (to you)” Think about just how STUPID a comment you just made.

Absolutely Buffoonery
Please keep replying with more GEMS like this so everyone can see what type of stupidity fills your lil boy brain

By: nightman13

nightman13 — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:34:47 +0000

You are insane to include the Brewers in that statement.

The Brewers make every effort to field a competitive team but constantly get priced out of the market. The Brewers were trying to lock Prince up for years before he became a free agent, and they were offering Grienke a solid deal too before he got greedy.

The Brewers have had 7 players sign elsewhere for over $600 million in the last several years.

Also, do some research, Braun signed a team friendly deal through 2020 to stay in Milwaukee.

By: nightman13

nightman13 — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:31:21 +0000

Stop reading my replies then. It’s funny that you think you know anything about me from a comment on a message board.

Idiot

By: phreakin

phreakin — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:47:11 +0000

I agree it’s too much for him, but it still doesn’t mean they aren’t trying to get better through trades and FA. Something you couldn’t say about previous management.

By: phreakin

phreakin — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:46:23 +0000

The league has a handful of teams wanting to win that’s why. You have 1/3 of the league happy just getting their revenue sharing from the big market teams all the while maitaining a 30 million dollar payrolll and trading away anyone they have to pay market value to. IE Royals, Marlins, Brewers, Pirates, etc. And yes the Brewers. Watch Braun be traded too after they didn’t pay Chubby

By: mrchainbluelightning

mrchainbluelightning — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 17:56:30 +0000

And you’re a entitled whining baby who thinks once you spend money it’s still somehow yours, giving you the justification to cry about how it’s new owner spends it.

Again, Stop your crying about how much you have to spend to watch a game and either
A: Stop watching
B: Stop crying

Sporting entertainment isn’t a god given right, it’s a business, and if you can’t afford it
TOO BAD

You’re a lil boy living in fantasy land. Stop replying to me days later with your lil boy tears and name calling.

By: rayfeathers

rayfeathers — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:39:19 +0000

if it wasn’ t for the completely absurd all-star game winner gets home field advantage the tigers would have kicked sf’ s ass.

By: nightman13

nightman13 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:30:01 +0000

You are an idiot

By: rkstevens1

rkstevens1 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:27:53 +0000

Don’t you mean your latest is number 7* (that’s with an asterisk)? You know for playing most of the season with the cheater who was your first-half MVP? Who knows where the Giants end up without Cabrera keeping the team afloat as Posey was recovering. Btw, if money doesn’t win championships, why did the Giants give Cain a $127-million extension and spend $70-million on Scutaro and Pagan? Easy to suddenly have the secret formula to winning championships after 50+ years of futility. And seriously, counting the NY Giants championships? When most people think of NY Giants they think of football. How many of those were SF titles?

By: simonfoster231171

simonfoster231171 — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:32:45 +0000

both, most likely …

By: churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged

churchoftheperpetuallyoutraged — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:28:18 +0000

sources close to friends of zack greinke’s favorite barista at the local starbucks said Zach wouldn’t play in NY, not Zach.

Fixed that for you

By: sailcat54

sailcat54 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 22:39:10 +0000

“Money does not buy titles. A TEAM does…”

Well played, Brinke.

By: brewcrewfan54

brewcrewfan54 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 21:35:23 +0000

I realize money doesn’t guarantee good results but when you have it its much easier to fix a mistake or an injury.

By: gbar22

gbar22 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:50:18 +0000

Are his win totals not a fact? Last I checked you can’t win games unless you are pitching well which means your other categories which all the modern baseball stat nerds worship will also be good or at least comparable to the other top pitchers in the game. I have no interest in waging an endless war on which stats are more valuable pitting the modern stats against the traditional stats. It’s an argument that one can never win as people are staunch in their views and bless them for that as there is no right or wrong. Either measure shows his effectiveness since ’08 and the overall point is still stated.

By: mrchainbluelightning

mrchainbluelightning — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:49:35 +0000

And yet you don’t have a say in how it is spent?
What a travesty! I think you should ask for YOUR money back.

Again, it’s NOT YOUR MONEY
It WAS SOME of your money that you unconditionally turned over to a business.

Yes we get it, the economy is circular.

Tell you what, You work for me, I just paid you your salary for the week. But that’s not your money, so I’m going to whine at you when you decide to spend it on moon-pies and penny-whistles. Hope you don’t mind but I feel entitled to do so since you never would have had that money if it wasn’t for me paying you.

Lemme guess, you’re going to circle back right?

Don’t like it? Don’t buy it
But lose this idea that it’s anyone’s money other than who’s hands it’s in last.

By: manchestermiracle

manchestermiracle — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:47:08 +0000

jimmy:
It’s called an investment. I’m sure they were quite aware of the pending TV deal, as well as how the Dodgers historically perform financially, before they bought the team.

mrchain:
Was that response for me? I’m not sure how to respond, or even if a response is necessary. You’re right in that no business is ever built by itself. Without customers you quickly go bankrupt. Unless, of course, you run a highly-lucrative scam the rest of us know as Wall Street, where you can make incredibly risky “investments” knowing you pocket any and all profits while being backed up by your cronies in government (giving you billions of taxpayer dollars so you can still award yourself a “bonus”) should you fail.

By: nightman13

nightman13 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:36:50 +0000

Apparently you missed the article about television deals driving up cable bills. And the whole taxpayer funded stadium thing too. And tickets and merch and concessions and parking and pretty much everything in sports is our money.

By: nightman13

nightman13 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:33:02 +0000

I’m a Brewers and Lions fan. I have nothing.

By: nightman13

nightman13 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:31:15 +0000

I could not disagree any more with that statement. How is it good for the sport to have a handful of teams with more resources than everybody else always be on top?

The NBA has that dynamic and it is a steaming pile of %$#@ league.

By: Brinke

Brinke — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:29:27 +0000

Mwah ha ha ha ha ha. I =love= this deal.

You guys don’t learn, do you. Money does not buy titles. A TEAM does, not a collection of high priced mercenaries. BTW, when’s YOUR WS ring ceremony? OUR latest one is the 7th, I think. Tune in and watch!

Signed
Your 2012 WS Champion SF Giants.

By: abaird2012

abaird2012 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:22:39 +0000

But A. J.’s good again …

By: Kleinz 57

Kleinz 57 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 17:18:46 +0000

Thanks for pointing this out.

Also thanks for the LOLZ at FLA being a mid-tier payroll team. Oh boy how that’s changed

By: sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo

sabathiawouldbegoodattheeighthtoo — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:37:25 +0000

Well, let’s just say the upside is tremendous. While many of them have disappointed recently, those guys were given a lot of money for a reason. If half the team performs at their own peak levels, this team should cruise.

By: proudlycanadian

proudlycanadian — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:13:34 +0000

Some good choices there.

By: uyf1950

uyf1950 — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:10:29 +0000

The way the Dodgers are spending money they might have signed both Greinke and Hamels (if he was a FA).

By: SOBEIT

SOBEIT — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:01:39 +0000

You don’t have to spend like NY or Bos and now LA. You can win and stay competitive every year with a middle of the road payroll. $90M-$120M. That’ why having a good farm is very important in this era and be wise in acquisitions. Last year for the Giants, low cost additions like Pagan and Scutaro paid off the most. With farm additions of Belt, Crawford, Sanchez to balance out earlier callups from Sandoval, Posey, Romo, etc….not to mention previous year smart low cost signings like Vogelsong, Blanco, Affeldt.

Since 2000, half the winners were the top tier payrolls like NY(2), Bos(2), LAA, PHI…while the other half were won by mid-tier payrolls…SF (2), STL(2), AZ, FL, CHW.

By: spudchukar

spudchukar — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:00:03 +0000

I dunno, Twins, Royals, Mets, Indians, Mariners, Astros, or Cubs?

By: Francisco (FC)

Francisco (FC) — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:41:39 +0000

Ruben is starting to look like a genius regarding the Hamels signing. No way King Felix, Verlander sign for less than 30. Had Hamels hit FA the Dodgers would have tossed him at least that much per year.

By: omniusprime

omniusprime — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:15:03 +0000

I certainly hope that this Greinke is worth this kind of insane money, but of course he isn’t. No player is worth this much money and the owners prove the saying that a fool and his money soon go separate ways. The Dodgers are spending money like drunken sailors on shore leave but will this collection of overpaid, overhyped greedy deadbeats actually win a pennant?

By: koufaxmitzvah

koufaxmitzvah — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 13:37:59 +0000

It might make you feel better that the Giants weren’t in the bottom third of payroll last year. According to ESPN, the Giants came in at #7 with a payroll of $120+ million. Last year, the Dodgers came in at #13 with a payroll amounting to less than $94 million.

http://espn.go.com/mlb/team/salaries/_/name/lad/los-angeles-dodgers