The Boss has passed.

[gales0678]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

All of which is nice and has a lot of truth to it but has little to do with the conversation that you originally quoted from. I hardly "blamed" george for the detoriation of the free world as you imply. But to ignore the negative aspects of his legacy, such as the continuing competitive imbalance in baseball which he played a big hand in, is myopic. My staement that because of competitive balance in the NFL, virtually every team can become a powerful team is still ture and is not true in baseball. Social factors aside would you agree that if you bought the Minnesota Vikings you would have a better chance of winning and establishing a championship contender than if you bought the Minnesota Twins? Or Miami Dolphins vs FL marlins? Or Seattle Seahawks vs. Seattle mariners?

Chuck you make it sound as this all started under geroge

was baseball un-competitve in the 20's , 30's 40' and 50's when the yanks were winning every thing in sight

weren't there teams in those decades that never had a chance either , i mean come on , yankee domination started in the 20's , had a hiccup from '64 until '76 , baseball has survived and prospered with the yankees winning in all decades

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by gales0678

Chuck you make it sound as this all started under geroge

was baseball un-competitve in the 20's , 30's 40' and 50's when the yanks were winning every thing in sight

weren't there teams in those decades that never had a chance either , i mean come on , yankee domination started in the 20's , had a hiccup from '64 until '76 , baseball has survived and prospered with the yankees winning in all decades

While it is true that the yankees won a lot in the 50's and before there were only 8 teams in the AL back then, no blacks and nothing west of the Mississippi. Plus there was very little competition during that period, the NFL was not really a big league, the NHL was strictly a northern sport, there was no NBA.

The world is a different place. Sure complete parity is not the best scenario as we need teams to not only root for but root against. But when you listen to baseball conversations the big market/small market factor almost always comes up. hell one of the big reasons that Strasburg was kept in the minors so long was to delay him starting his arbitration right. Sure they get to keep him another year but you know as well as i do that if he pans out the Yankees will be siting there to snatch him up, just like they did with Sabathia and what they are going to do with Cliff lee.