Just chiming in on a few things in this thread:
- I've been a Dodgers fan my entire life, and that contract for Matt Kemp is fucking ridiculous. Don't get me wrong, I like Matt Kemp, and I'm glad he will be on the team another 8 years (or at least I hope he is still good at least 5 of those 8 years), but signing him to the richest contract in Dodger history, after ONE monster season is kind of ridiculous; especially considering how much of a flop he was in 2010. I would have much preferred the Dodgers giving Mike Piazza 100 million in 1998...or giving Beltre the money he deserved after 2004.
I also don't like this contract because it probably means that my current favorite player, Andre Ethier, probably wont be wearing Dodger Blue much longer.
- I really like the throwback Orioles and Blu-Jays jerseys/hats. I'm thinking about running out and buying both of them. I used to have that old Blue-Jays hat as a kid, in 1993, and I miss it. On the other hand, we've all already agreed that the Marlins uniforms are hideously disgusting, right?!
- I really, really, dig the addition of a second Wild Card team. I wouldn't go any further than this, with adding playoff teams because then it would turn into the NBA, with a meaningless regular season. However, 10 teams out of 30 making the playoffs is fine with me.
I like the idea of a one game playoff for the Wild Card teams because it puts more pressure on teams to try to win the division out right. It makes the odds of a Wild Card team coming in, getting hot at the last second, and beating up on the teams that have been good all year a lot tougher. We've been seeing Wild Card teams win the World Series too often, since the inception of the Wild Card, and I think this is enough proof that we needed to do more to handicap the Wild Card teams.
On the other hand, the one game "play ins" we have had, like that one between the Twins and Tigers a few years back are some of the most exciting games ever. Do you think the excitement of the one game Wild Card playoff might overshadow the excitement of a seven game World Series?!? That wouldn't be right....but a one game, winner take all, is just more exciting PERIOD.
- Lastly, I was sickened by the fact that the Dodgers wasted $8 million to sign MARK ELLIS (LOL), until I saw that the Pirates want to sign Clint Barmes for $11 million. Now I don't feel so bad.
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