Boras Speak

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, atomic said:

What are you disagreeing with?   Anyone can play baseball.   I did it in little league.   I wasn't good but I caught balls and occasionally got hits.  It is comical to think many people are smart enough to design a rocket capable of space flight.    

Like anything if you artificially limit the number of positions a field it will be hard to get a position in field.   If they let teams have as big squads as they desired and removed minimum salary there would be a lot more than 25 players on each team. 

Everyone can't play baseball.

 

[weams]

2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Everyone can't play baseball.

 

500 guys can play MLB baseball at a consistent level. Not just playing at a major college level. There might be 5k of those. 

[atomic]

21 minutes ago, Il BuonO said:

Right, played by adults for entertainment. At the professional level very few people can play this ‘kids game’. 

If MLB decided for some idiotic reason to double the amount of teams they’d immediately dampen the talent pool. The product on the field is already diluted because there are 30 teams.

And it’s a ridiculous straw man to compare it to a rocket scientist or nuclear physicist.

Baseball would be fine with 60 teams and the talent level would be better than it was 40 years ago.   Think about WW2 when so many players went to the military that they had a one armed hitter. People still watched the games.   

Look how many soccer teams there are in the world.  You still have great teams like Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.   People still go to the games. 

[weams]

Just now, atomic said:

Baseball would be fine with 60 teams and the talent level would be better than it was 40 years ago.   Think about WW2 when so many players went to the military that they had a one armed hitter. People still watched the games.   

Look how many soccer teams there are in the world.  You still have great teams like Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.   People still go to the games. 

Sometimes 3000 people go to a Baysox game. If there are a bobble and fireworks. Spring training games sell out at 5 k if the Red Sox are playing. 

The marketed level of MLB games that bring forth the current extravagant profits don't work with that type of dilution. And it ain't 1942 no more. 

[atomic]

4 minutes ago, weams said:

500 guys can play MLB baseball at a consistent level. Not just playing at a major college level. There might be 5k of those. 

But like I said that is artificially limited.   And if 100 players suddenly quit you could easily find 100 to take their place.  And a lot more than 500 play in a year.   There's no shortage of baseball players. 

[weams]

Just now, atomic said:

But like I said that is artificially limited.   And if 100 players suddenly quit you could easily find 100 to take their place.  And a lot more than 500 play in a year.   There's no shortage of baseball players. 

Nope. There are 500 that can play at the level that we are currently accustomed to. And they are not the next best thing guys in AAA

[atomic]

Just now, weams said:

Sometimes 3000 people go to a Baysox game. If there are a bobble and fireworks. Spring training games sell out at 5 k if the Red Sox are playing. 

The marketed level of MLB games that bring forth the current extravagant profits don't work with that type of dilution. And it ain't 1942 no more. 

They could easily find 10 cities that could support a team better than Rays fans do.   

A lot of the players at triple A play at the big league level for part of the year.   

[weams]

1 minute ago, atomic said:

But like I said that is artificially limited.   And if 100 players suddenly quit you could easily find 100 to take their place.  And a lot more than 500 play in a year.   There's no shortage of baseball players. 

There is a shortage of baseball players that can play the current game a broadcast level quality. Several MLB teams do not play a passable brand. 

[weams]

1 minute ago, atomic said:

 

A lot of the players at triple A play at the big league level for part of the year.   

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They do. And they draw friends and family for free tickets. 

[Can_of_corn]

1 minute ago, atomic said:

They could easily find 10 cities that could support a team better than Rays fans do.   

A lot of the players at triple A play at the big league level for part of the year.   

Without infringing upon another team?

Or are you talking about putting four teams in NY?

[25 Nuggets]

Just now, weams said:

There is a shortage of baseball players that can play the current game a broadcast level quality. Several MLB teams do not play a passable brand. 

Someday, provided us humans are still around, baseball will have a World Premier League akin to Futbol.

[weams]

1 minute ago, weams said:

 

1 minute ago, atomic said:

They could easily find 10 cities that could support a team better than Rays fans do.   

 

 

I agree. 

 

 

[weams]

1 minute ago, Can_of_corn said:

Without infringing upon another team?

Or are you talking about putting four teams in NY?

Connecticut and New Hampshire.

[atomic]

2 minutes ago, Can_of_corn said:

Without infringing upon another team?

Or are you talking about putting four teams in NY?

Charlotte,  Nashville,  Vegas,  Portland,  New Orleans, Mexico City,  Montreal,  San Antonio,  Oklahoma City

[25 Nuggets]

There are 210 designated market areas (DMAs) in the US.  How.... business like.  But anyway, Tampa/St Pete is #11 by population.  Doesn't seem to make sense that they can't support a ballclub.  The top ten markets that don't have a major league team are:

1. Orlando-Daytona Beach-Melbourne
2. Sacramento-Stockton-Modesto
3. Charlotte
4. Raleigh-Durham (Fayetteville)
5. Portland, OR
6. Indianapolis
7. Nashville
8. Hartford & New Haven
9. San Antonio
10. Columbus, OH

Smaller markets than Columbus (#32 overall) include Kansas City, Milwaukee, and Cincinnati.  And not by much.