How is being the favorite a bad thing?
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I believe I read on a MLB stat site that the Dodgers also pay the highest percentage of gross team revenues to the players salaries.
I saw that 77% goes to the players' payroll as the number, last time I looked.
The Dodgers also have one of the best farm systems to trade with when compared to some other franchises.
And there are always many Dodgers fans at virtually all of the away games as well, judging by the merch that is visible at the away games shown on TV.
THAT'S what I would love to see for the Rams, instead of seeing and hearing So Fi being taken over by effin' whiners and chickens fans, along with several other team's fans on game days.
It's not about "fairness". It's about the spirit of competition, so that teams aren't being little more than farm teams for the Dodgers and other rich teams, so that we don't see only four-to-six teams come close to winning the WS every year. That gets boring.
As I've mentioned before, y'all have one of the best farm systems in the league. Y'all have the farm system to replace damn near anyone on the roster, Shohei Ohtani aside. Why are you so uneasy for a salary cap ceiling/floor if your farm system is that good?
I agree with a lot of that. But again, spending smartly is only a part of it. Teams also have to have the money to outbid teams like the Dodgers. It's not just about good management, else teams like the Guardians, Rays, and Brewers would've won a WS by now. Those aforementioned teams often (with very rare exceptions) either deal away their elite homegrown talent or lose them in free agency because they are financially unable to pay them more than others who have more money at their disposal.
For example, Kyle Tucker. You didn't even need Kyle Tucker, especially since you have six top-100 outfielders in your system (no, I'm not even exaggerating; you're quite literally stacked with elite outfield prospects) and six more in your top thirty, but you went out and bought him for two-hundred-and-forty million dollars anyway. That kind of price is impossible for a lot of teams to pay, especially if things go wrong like they have with Tucker this season. You guys have Ohtani and Betts to help pick up the slack for Tucker being awful this year, but if Tucker is a less-wealthy team's big pickup, they're shit-out-of-luck.
That's the issue. I have nothing against the Dodgers, and I've always respected the team, but there has to be a salary cap ceiling and floor for those reasons. It's the spirit of competition. Parity. To make it so that it's not just a matter of money and having other teams without the money being nothing more than farm systems for richer teams who have the ability to pay their players more.
Not my problem at all. Just stating reality. Unless a pro sports team wins a championship while allocating the same Financial Resources as the rest of its League. The championship is thus illegitimate. Not a big deal. Just a fact of life.
go ahead and post where i said i was uneasy about a salary cap...
i just know many owners could do exactly what the dodgers/rams do, but they don't...
and im not sorry about it...
do what we all did circa 2005-2015... we root for our team...
now back to your veggies little ones...
go rams
slo
i just know many owners could do exactly what the dodgers/rams do, but they don't...
and im not sorry about it...
do what we all did circa 2005-2015... we root for our team...
now back to your veggies little ones...
go rams
slo
As always, it is just your opinion. Not the reality you seem to think it is. I can't believe you don't understand that.
What can I say, I live in the real (sports) world that is based on fairness. If winning a World Series with a 400 million payroll does it for you, God bless. Most of us are scoffing and laughing.
You keep equating Dodgers and Rams as if it's the same thing. Do you have any idea how incorrect you are on that premise? Grade school stuff.
Just because you say something is a "reality" ad illegitimate does not make it a fact.
Its your opinion, and that.............. is a fact.
Right on! If winning a pro title while spending insane amounts more than 95% of the rest of the league does it for you, by all means, CELE-BRATE!!!! YAYYYY!!!!
For someone who says they're not uneasy about a salary cap, you're very eager to keep the status quo instead of accepting that there should be a salary cap (and a floor; I've stated before that I despise teams that refuse to pay far more than I'm upset with teams that overpay all the time) so that others who do develop their players the right way can realistically compete instead of being farm teams for richer teams. I realize that your team was absolutely atrocious for a long time in the 2000s with shoddy ownership, but oftentimes, teams don't get the type of money that your team got from new ownership, and oftentimes, it gets even worse; the saying "the grass is greener" says it all. If every part of a team's "success" was "solved" by a new owner, the St. Louis Blues would be in Saskatoon, and it took us decades to find stable and competent ownership.
I've rooted for my team with no problems - been a Cardinals/Blues fan since before I was born (my mom carried me nine months pregnant to a Cardinals game and eight months to a Blues game). I just see a massive issue with a sport I've cared about since I was a little girl.
If you recall anything about hockey, you'll remember that the lacking salary cap nearly destroyed the NHL and caused a lockout. Do you want the same to happen to baseball?
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It is reminiscent of the ‘70’s when the Rams were pre-season favorites several of those seasons but what they have now makes them better.
Sean McVay is a better coach than Chuck Knox.
And Matthew Stafford beats any ‘70’s Ram QB.
This defense can rank with any of those on paper but we haven’t seen them yet. Maybe better if AD returns.
They’ll get everyone’s best game as they come for the fastest draw
It is reminiscent of the ‘70’s when the Rams were pre-season favorites several of those seasons but what they have now makes them better.
Sean McVay is a better coach than Chuck Knox.
And Matthew Stafford beats any ‘70’s Ram QB.
This defense can rank with any of those on paper but we haven’t seen them yet. Maybe better if AD returns.
They’ll get everyone’s best game as they come for the fastest draw
ONE OUT in the top of the ninth inning when Miguel Rojas hit his historic game-tying home run for the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 of the 2025 World Series against the Toronto Blue Jays. [1, 2, 3]
Money doesn't guarantee anything. Teams still have to play the games and win. Momentum is a very powerful force in sports. Money has always played a part in baseball. It's one part. You need good management in the front office and on the field. You need to know which players to pick and develop players in all phases: drafting, trading, and free agency. With all that money and all the other quality at all levels in the Dodgers organization, they came within two outs of losing the World Series!
Doesn't make it any less illegitimate when they have a perverted payroll compared to the rest of the sport.
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So much weird postseason sht happened to us back then. Remember the mud bowl? I always say being the best team doesn't always translate to SB wins.Back on topic -
It is reminiscent of the ‘70’s when the Rams were pre-season favorites several of those seasons but what they have now makes them better.
Sean McVay is a better coach than Chuck Knox.
And Matthew Stafford beats any ‘70’s Ram QB.
This defense can rank with any of those on paper but we haven’t seen them yet. Maybe better if AD returns.
They’ll get everyone’s best game as they come for the fastest draw
You don't get it. Its how you say things, not so much what you actually say.
Again, just because you state a opinion does not make it a fact.
You do it all the time. Not just on this thread.
I am a Dodger fan. I liked it better when the Dodgers were more farm system based.
What is your favorite baseball team ? Could it just be sour grapes or jealousy ?