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RaidenGarai posted...

I'm sorry that most teams (like my Brewers) lack the financial resources to compete with the teams that buy wins in baseball. Not every team has the payroll to compete with the Red Sox, Yankees, Giants, Cubs, Dodgers, Cardinals, etc.

If you want Boston to stop winning, you have to want true parity in Baseball, where every team has a level playing field and winning isn't primarily determined by how much your owner is willing to spend. The same teams are always in or near the postseason every year, and then there's one or two teams that have the lower payroll (and generally smaller market) that actually build a good team without spending huge amounts.

Do you want true parity in baseball, or do you just want a world where your large market/payroll team still wins and Boston loses? It's not often that you can have both.

https://www.spotrac.com/mlb/payroll/ <- This is why Boston is so hard to beat.

I want to go back to this because the "woe is me our small payroll" schtick is beyond old.

I call out the Minor League teams because they play an antiquated garbage form of baseball that is unsuccessful. Pitchers hitting is I think at the root of what causes the league to be much weaker than the AL year to year and I have no reason to think otherwise. The Dodgers are going to get just as swept by Boston as Milwaukee would.
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