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I don't think there's a salary cap in baseball. That's why the A's can't compete with the yankees. If you haven't seen it yet, watch Moneyball. It's a classic.



We have spent a lot of money on our own players. I didn't take it to mean just spending money in free agency.

We stopped doing that after Brandon Carr burned us (pun intended) but we used to go after some pretty big names in the past. Deion, Leroy Glover, Rocket Ismail, Marco Rivera, Ken Hamlin, Ryan McNeil, Anthony Henry, Greg Hardy.

We've drafted well over the years and we don't let our players sign elsewhere. Randall Godfrey is the last one I can remember. The extensions we've handed out are in the high hundreds of millions.
I hear you. But if they drafted so well, the players they resigned would win something. They overvalue their own. And are afraid of free agency.
 

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They just asked Dodgers owner Stan Kasten how they compete for Championships every year. His answer was, "I hire the best people, and let them do their job." Just hearing that was the biggest of all punches to the nutz....had Billionaire Booger done that the last 30 years, can you JUST IMAGINE how many more Lombardi's we might have? Especially given there is no salary cap on coaches. Just thinking about it, makes me want to puke.
Yep. It’s what the winning owners of the last 28 Super Bowls all realized: If you are serious about winning a championship, you hire a talented GM, delegate authority to them, and hold them accountable for results.

Jerry is clearly not serious about winning a championship.
 

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I hear you. But if they drafted so well, the players they resigned would win something. They overvalue their own. And are afraid of free agency.
They do overvalue their players, there's no doubt about that. The problem is these players get too comfortable and that affects their play on the field. By the end of the season they're done, and that's why they don't show up to the playoffs. Ever.

We need to let some of these guys walk. If Zack Martin doesn't want to honor the contract he signed then we can trade him elsewhere but now we're stuck with an aging guard with a back issue.

It's like we learned nothing from the 90s with all the dead cap money from players we signed who were clearly nearing the tail end of their careers.

I would not have resigned Diggs or Dak and I said that before both of them were signed. Looks like I was right. I would have resigned CD. If we resign Micah I don't think I'll watch another game because there won't be any point. That will be 50% of the cap devoted to three players, two of which absolutely will not be earning it anyway.
 

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Cap or no cap they hired the best gm and the best scouts. That's what the point is. We need an Andrew Friedman and Jerry's ego is to big to hire one.
 

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Cap or no cap they hired the best gm and the best scouts. That's what the point is. We need an Andrew Friedman and Jerry's ego is to big to hire one.
I think the worst thing that happened to this franchise was winning Super Bowl 30. Everyone except Jerry could see we barely won it with what was left of Jimmy's players and anyone with common sense would know that was the very end of the dynasty.
 

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A LOT easier winning championships when you are in the top 5-10 spending 10 years running.
It's called adapting. They had a young dodgers team go to the World Series vs the Astros in 2017. That team was built thru the farm system. When they saw they had to outsource players they did that. Smart, they changed their strategy and added to the team.
 

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They just asked Dodgers owner Stan Kasten how they compete for Championships every year. His answer was, "I hire the best people, and let them do their job." Just hearing that was the biggest of all punches to the nutz....had Billionaire Booger done that the last 30 years, can you JUST IMAGINE how many more Lombardi's we might have? Especially given there is no salary cap on coaches. Just thinking about it, makes me want to puke.
Mr. Kasten left out the part about spending $650 million a year on salaries for the best players and constantly looking for more.
 

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It also helps that there's no salary cap and the Dodgers keep signing the top free agents every season. There's already talks they're going to go after Juan Soto.
Dodgers have a great farm system as well, and seldom if ever sign any top FA's to fill their bullpen. Ohtani is actually only being paid 2 million per year for his entire contract....deferring 68 million every year. It'll be a giant **** you to the State of California when he is living elsewhere after his playing days are over....brilliant tax move on his agents part.
 

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They just asked Dodgers owner Stan Kasten how they compete for Championships every year. His answer was, "I hire the best people, and let them do their job." Just hearing that was the biggest of all punches to the nutz....had Billionaire Booger done that the last 30 years, can you JUST IMAGINE how many more Lombardi's we might have? Especially given there is no salary cap on coaches. Just thinking about it, makes me want to puke.
Dodgers owner Stan Kasten shows how they compete for Championships and Win it all.

Jerry runs the Cowboys like The Dreadful Los Angeles Angels.. Former Angels Shohei Ohtani comes to mind.

I was a Proud Angel Fan Hoping that Shohei Ohtani would bring back the the winning ways for My Angels
Shohei Ohtani Played 6 Seasons for the Angels..The Angels were bad when they had Ohtani and they were Bad before Ohtani.

When The Angels Let Ohtani Go..That was it..So I Dump The Angels..

Go Dodgers..

Jerry you do Run the Cowboys like The Dreadful Los Angeles Angels..:mad:
Jerry Your Next For The Dump... :hammer:

Go Texans and My Buckeye Boy C.J. Stroud..

NUFF SAID..
 

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Jerry spearheaded the inclusion of the salary cap in the N.F.L. which is ironic because it directly led to his permanent undoing.
 

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They just asked Dodgers owner Stan Kasten how they compete for Championships every year. His answer was, "I hire the best people, and let them do their job." Just hearing that was the biggest of all punches to the nutz....had Billionaire Booger done that the last 30 years, can you JUST IMAGINE how many more Lombardi's we might have? Especially given there is no salary cap on coaches. Just thinking about it, makes me want to puke.
More importantly, there is no salary cap on GMs.
 

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They just asked Dodgers owner Stan Kasten how they compete for Championships every year. His answer was, "I hire the best people, and let them do their job." Just hearing that was the biggest of all punches to the nutz....had Billionaire Booger done that the last 30 years, can you JUST IMAGINE how many more Lombardi's we might have? Especially given there is no salary cap on coaches. Just thinking about it, makes me want to puke.
Love this post!
 

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Yankees and Dodgers also spend like mad on players. Helps just a tad.
Too bad the Yankees (with the exception of Soto, who was actually a trade) usually spend their money on guys past their prime and get little on return for the investment. Hal Steinbrenner is NOT his father and cares alot less about winning and the GM Cashman SUCKS almost as much as Jerry.
 
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