Professional sports have brought us some amazing athletic feats in the last half century, as well as some amazing dynasty's. i.e. The many outstanding NY Yankee teams, the 80's Chicago Bulls, Bird vs Magic, Wayne Gretsky and Mario Lemieux just to name a few. And then of course there is the downside to professional sports. It spawns owners who care far more about their bottom line, than they do about winning-
I was just out of high school when the Seattle Mariners came into the American league. Now in my early 70's, I see a decades long treadmill of owners and former owners who unfailingly purchase just enough talent to call themselves a major league team, knowing they can count on legions of old men, dragging their kids and grandkids with them to the games, sitting on their oversized butts, spewing forth meaningless statistics such as ERA's and RBI's as the home team slowly slides into another mediocre season,
The sad thing about this is no one seems to care.
The Mariner franchise is just one of many teams around the league that operate this way. Every year Mariner owners announce they have "some great young talent coming up, so you'd better get your season tickets while they last!" - - But no one believes them anymore, they've been lied to too many times. This team, like so many others, is simply a cash cow for the owners.
- This just in: Mariners owners have just announced "they have some great young talent coming up, so you'd better get your season tickets while they last!" 😴
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@mchill saidDid you bite?🤔
Professional sports have brought us some amazing athletic feats in the last half century, as well as some amazing dynasty's. i.e. The many outstanding NY Yankee teams, the 80's Chicago Bulls, Bird vs Magic, Wayne Gretsky and Mario Lemieux just to name a few. And then of course there is the downside to professional sports. It spawns owners who care far more about their bottom l ...[text shortened]... have some great young talent coming up, so you'd better get your season tickets while they last!" 😴
Edit: look at the Toronto Maple Leafs.😲
@Great-Big-Stees saidDid you bite?🤔- - I'm afraid I don't quite follow your question.
Did you bite?🤔
Edit: look at the Toronto Maple Leafs.😲
Edit: look at the Toronto Maple Leafs.😲 - - Yes, The Toronto Maple Leafs are another prime example. Professional sports seem to breed this sort of thing. Interestingly the Leafs were once my favorite team, until one day in the 80's when I watched the N.Y. Rangers score 2 shorthanded goals in the 3rd period, to come back and win the game, in addition to winning 3 different fights with the Leaf players in the process. Not surprisingly, I'm no longer a Leaf fan.
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@mchill saidDid you bite?
Did you bite?🤔- - I'm afraid I don't quite follow your question.
Edit: look at the Toronto Maple Leafs.😲 - - Yes, The Toronto Maple Leafs are another prime example. Professional sports seem to breed this sort of thing. Interestingly the Leafs were once my favorite team, until one day in the 80's when I watched the N.Y. Rangers score 2 shorthanded goals in the 3rd period, to ...[text shortened]... 3 different fights with the Leaf players in the process. Not surprisingly, I'm no longer a Leaf fan.
I thought maybe you reside in the Seattle area and were thinking of buying season tickets.🤔👍
@Great-Big-Stees saidyou can't say that about the leafs. Every year their salary cap is maxed out so it's not like they are not trying to win. If they had 20 million in cap space every year and had crappy teams then sure, but you can't complain when they spend to the max every year.
Did you bite?🤔
Edit: look at the Toronto Maple Leafs.😲
The problem for the leafs (and all canadian teams) is that our taxes are too high so the players' net salaries are much lower than a player playing in a low tax state like florida or dallas.
That's why the best free agents almost always sign with US teams.