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Originally Posted by Lathum
this means nothing to a fan. They want to win and have a chance to win every year.
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Well, not all of us fans are like that. There are some who recognize that you have you windows you build towards - 65 win teams should not be signing Jeremy Burnitz and Reggie Sanders, to take one example. Personally, I want the Giants to rebuild, to take one example.
And in the Marlins case, its a function of cheap owners which is hardly a baseball phenomenon (see the Bidwells to take one example, or the Clippers for most of the Stirling era, the last 4 years notwithstanding).
Look, I think there should be incentives for a team to compete, instead of getting free revenue sharing dollars to do nothing (see the Pirates as Example A, and the Royals for the longest time) - but baseball, despite all the naysayers, is in damn good shape. The Yankees paid $63 million in revenue sharing last year - how much more should they pay to subsidize the Loria's of the world?