Unique way to fix baseball - Pay for Performance

[theocean]

1 minute ago, Frobby said:

You might find the fans rooting for the home team to be shut out.  

I went to a Nats/Padres game in DC back in 2008 when they both were 100 loss teams. The entire home crowd was rooting for the Nats to lose in the bottom of the ninth because if the game went on any longer - it would be past 11pm and too late for Fireworks Night. The Nats tied the game, it went into extras. All 200 in attendance were devastated.

[Beef Supreme]

2 hours ago, theocean said:

I think beer should cost as much as how many runs the home team has on the board at the moment.

 

Boy oh boy, the buzzes Oriole fans would be getting this Spring!

[Beef Supreme]

4 hours ago, weams said:

My use of the word in a baseball context does not open this up to geopolitical discussion.  Frobby was funning us/me. And I back.  He enjoyed that I saw his tack. 

I was riffing on the use of the word, "jingoism."

[TINSTAAPP]

7 hours ago, weams said:

There is not a chance of this ever happening. And the league is farther from that today than they have ever been.

The NBA has the perfect system with a soft salary cap that includes several exceptions that allow teams to exceed the salary cap to sign players. For example, the NBA allows teams to exceed the salary cap to re-sign their own players. So basically elite players would end up giving a good deal of money if they decide to leave via free agency to go to another team. It would give a team like the Orioles a lot of leverage if they were allowed to pay Machado say $30 million more than every other team could offer him. And that rule helps small market teams in the NBA keep their superstars. It would be nice if teams like the Rays and A's were able to keep all of their players that they developed instead of losing them as soon as their six years of service time is up. The sport would be in a much healthier place.

[OFFNY]

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I would settle for a unique way to fix the Orioles right now.

 

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[Uli2001]

Each player should make 50% of what they make now, and the other 50% would be shared by the entire team based on Ws not individual statistics.

It's lke that in Soccer, in many leagues around the world. Players are paid bonuses per win in addition to their salaries.

[lazyjc22]

16 hours ago, Redskins Rick said:

I thought when they had the Congressional here, they talked about how much it cost for them to invite Tiger to play.

Since it's been the AT&T/Quicken Loans National,  it's actually been tiger's event,  the TW Foundation has been the host.   Congo may have lost money overall,  but they certainly didn't have to pay tiger to show up.