Well...at least take this for a good sign. At least we don't have Ozzie Guillen. This sounds pretty serious between these two. Portion of the story from the Chicago Tribune.

IMO, no. I have never been passed over because of my race, or fired either. And I have never been party to someone being passed over because of their race, or their firing. I have never seen someone hired or their retention because of their race.

Maybe in your 1800's colored world that might be the case. In nmine and 99% of everyone elses it isn't.

Now, I have question for you. Do white males on average recieve higher pay than their female and minority counterparts? Simple question: yes or no?

Actually, Baird has hinted at that money being accumulated to sign players like Greinke, Affeldt, Hernandez, etc. to long term contracts when the time comes.

But the notion that he bought this baseball team because it's a cash cow is stupid at best.

No one said he bought it because it was a cash cow. But you sure in the hell aren't going to make any money by putting out teams that lost 100+ games year after year. And the only way you aren't going to lost 100+ year after year is to spend a little coin on some decent players.

Spent 51 million last year. Still lost 100+.

What we need to do is play through the allstar break, trade Sweeney for some prospects who can actually hit (clearing some serious $$$ for an everyday player next year), trade Brian Anderson for whatever we can get and then spend money on guys not named "Eli Marrero" "Tony Graffanino" and "Emil Brown" next offseason.

Agree with most of your post. But I think a big chunk of the difference between last year and this was Beltran's salary - about $9 mil. The rest was tied up in Darrel May, Desi Relaford, Benito Santiago, etc. I don't think we paid Juan Gone that much, but don't know for sure.

They've tried to get experienced players on the cheap - like Marrero, Brown, Graffanino, etc. Long seems like he has done okay, though. Anderson will go before the trading deadline, hopefully we can get some prospects for him.

I think you and I have talked about this before. The difference between 2.5 mil Marrero and 5-6 mil whoever is huge. If you're going to spend money on a veteran who's going to take playing time away from a prospect, then at least pay to get someone who will be productive.

Yes he's a joke...

Dave

Good lord this crap gets so old. If the Royals were one or two players away then Glass said he would sign them. They tried to do it last year when it appeared that we might be one or two players away. But there's no point in dumping $20 million more into a team that is a turd to begin with. Glass didn't get rich by being so stupid he would spend $20 million more to win 10 more games.

People also don't understand that because the Yankees are paying someone 10 million per year doesn't mean we could have had them for 10 million. It just means that if we had bid 10 they would have bid 11, and so on, until we were out of the running. No one outbids teams like NY for players they want. We may succeed in driving up the price but we would still not get a player that NY or Boston et al decided they wanted.

Pena might do things I don't like but he proved he could win with a reasonable level of talent in 2003. and God himself could not manage this lineup to a winning record. You can't win by getting 4 hits every night.

Baseball is effed up and will remain effed up until there is a salary cap. Until then, smaller markets will continue to be over a barrel. Yes I follow the team, I go to more games than any of you haters do I'm sure, but I realize the way baseball works and that we're currently hoping at best to have a winning season, maybe to get a wild card and host a couple of playoff games, until the game gets fixed.

I have seen it; though I haven't personally experienced it yet...

As to your question, yes. And that is disgraceful too.