OT: The LA Dodgers are in deep doo doo.
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But doesn't this seem to be a little more crooked than just circumventing the salary cap?
Mostly attributable to the fact that the nfl has a salary cap and mlb does not
Wouldn't worry about the Dodgers or their owner. Their front office is light years ahead of everyone else. The owner made $2.5B in a year of owning the Lakers. What a return.
He will pay some fine and move on, all as the Dodgers continue to rack up WS. Shohei is the best player anyone alive has ever seen.
Pretty funny to see the crying from Yankee fans. They were singing a different tune when they were outspending everyone. Money is a driving factor but the Dodgers brass is just better than everyone else. Look at what that clown Cohen does with his money lol
He will pay some fine and move on, all as the Dodgers continue to rack up WS. Shohei is the best player anyone alive has ever seen.
Pretty funny to see the crying from Yankee fans. They were singing a different tune when they were outspending everyone. Money is a driving factor but the Dodgers brass is just better than everyone else. Look at what that clown Cohen does with his money lol
Between this, the Jeanie Buss saga and the clippers probably cheating to pay Khwai Leonard’s salary, we need a 30 for 30 on LA sports management asap
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they don't have a salary cap but a luxury tax, I know that, just didn't know how to explain that. But if a team makes enough, which the Dodgers do, they can just ignore the luxury tax and spend out the wazoo. The luxury tax was meant to prohibit egregious behavior, but the Dodgers can get around that.
None of it matters. Just win baby. Very simply equation in LA. Rutgers should take note.
So can the Yankees, which they do. They just aren't as good at it anymore. Their WS teams all had the highest payrolls. Not one Yankee fan had a problem then.
I don't know who the 3 amigos are, but there is nothing to admit. It's a fact.You'll never get The 3 Amigos to admit that.
I do love the whining coming from those fans now though. Thick irony.
From the Goog.
The New York Yankees have held the highest Opening Day payroll in Major League Baseball 21 times and won the World Series with the highest payroll in 4 of those seasons (1996, 1999, 2000, and 2009).
There's almost nothing of substance in that article.
Agreed, it’s useless and tells me nothing of wrong doing by the Dodgers. I just became the victim of message board clickbait.
Was the luxury tax meant to prohibit egregious behavior? I would argue no. If you really want to prohibit something, you don't tax it. You prohibit it.
IMHO, the luxury tax was intended to line the pockets of those small-market owners who are its beneficiaries.
The luxury tax was the best they could do, because the player's association flatly refuses to embrace a salary cap. Which is stupid, because not only did they want a salary cap but a salary floor that would force small market teams to pay up.
I’m sure someone else with newfound billions will buy the Dodgers just like they bought the Lakers.
I agree with you there. There won't be a cap without a floor, and vice versa. It will be both or neither.
Assuming that the cap is accompanied with a reasonable floor, and a healthy increase in the minimum salary, and maybe cutting off a year of total team control (either pre-arb or arb)... Then yeah, I could see it happening.
$8b here though I’ve seen higher
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Easy fix- no cap- but, have a luxury tax and a floor tax. We already understand the luxury tax - and there are many teams that keep a payroll much lower than what the revenue share is from the luxury tax.
The floor should be a minimum of revenue share plus $50 mil. For every dollar you are under this number, you forfeit a certain amount of the revenue share plus have the same draft penalties as the luxury offenders.
There also needs to be a better plan on how deferrals are handled- there has to be a max % that can be deferred.
The floor should be a minimum of revenue share plus $50 mil. For every dollar you are under this number, you forfeit a certain amount of the revenue share plus have the same draft penalties as the luxury offenders.
There also needs to be a better plan on how deferrals are handled- there has to be a max % that can be deferred.
No max on deferrals especially if there is no cap. Genius move by LA and Shohei. He plays out his contract, moves to a tax friendly state, collects millions. There are no laws saying you have to accept money at certain points outside if what is stipulated in a contract.
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