OT: World Series -- Who Ya Got?

[NielsisGood]

The Astros, win or lose will find out very quickly what they will need to spend to keep any of their starters
You have to spend money, ridiculous amounts unfortunately, to keep or attract any decent players - and decent these days are marginal compared to days gone by
Baseball, as basketball, has gotten way out of hand - almost to the point to where it has lost a bit of my interest
I miss the days of players staying at least 5 years with the same team!!!
Go Cubbies

Besides Kuechel Stros have the rest of that core under control for awhile.

 

[mauconnfan]

Who's to say we wouldn't have beaten Cleveland this year if given the chance? We might have both just lost to the best team.

The core of your team is young, but you were still the 2nd highest payroll at 200 million. Wouldn't say that "not spending much" is the right way to put that. Pretty similar to the Sox, just that you've spent a bit more. I've never been one to fault the Yanks for outspending everybody though, you should want your team to invest in the on field product.

Again never said the Yanks don’t spend more but is it not noticeable the spend went up when the Sox started winning more consistently? Yanks have flatlined almost over the last few years a credit to them trying to get young while the Sox were once near or under 100m and now are close to doubling that. Like you say as fans you would hope they would their brand is huge now.

Don’t think they were beating anyone the way they were pitching and hitting quite honestly. But that’s just me.

 

[NielsisGood]

Again never said the Yanks don’t spend more but is it not noticeable the spend went up when the Sox started winning more consistently? Yanks have flatlined almost over the last few years a credit to them trying to get young while the Sox were once near or under 100m and now are close to doubling that. Like you say as fans you would hope they would their brand is huge now.

Don’t think they were beating anyone the way they were pitching and hitting quite honestly. But that’s just me.

Sox have pretty consistently been somewhere in the top 3-5 payrolls pretty much ever since they signed Manny. Team salaries across the league have gone way up the last 10 years or so anyways. Back in the mid 00's there were only 8-10 teams with 100m+ payroll, this year there were over 20 teams that were over 100m.

 

[navery12]

I can't believe I fell asleep.

Actually, I can. I just was saying the other day how I'm sports watching mush.

Every game I decide to stop watching becomes all time great, the ones I force myself to watch to the end, nothing.

I hope you broke the trend and stayed up to watch tonight's game