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    Quote Originally Posted by paco View Post
    Tiger for life Baby!



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    It's amazing how these long-term baseball contracts never work out, yet they just keep coming.

    What am I missing here?

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    It's amazing how these long-term baseball contracts never work out, yet they just keep coming.

    What am I missing here?
    Still mad over Pujols signing

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vegas39 View Post
    Still mad over Pujols signing
    I expected it to be bad the last few years, but not this early.

    I can't think of any good long-term deals.

    Rewarding players for past performances is the only reason it happens, I guess.

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    Another silly deal this guy will be done three or four years in his career will be over and still make all that money

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    It's amazing how these long-term baseball contracts never work out, yet they just keep coming.

    What am I missing here?
    With these ridiculous TV contracts, these teams have more money than they know what to do with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Killer_Demo View Post


    Haha Thanks for posting that video. What a great season 2012 was!
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Giant View Post
    It's amazing how these long-term baseball contracts never work out, yet they just keep coming.

    What am I missing here?
    Cabrera is the face of the Tigers. I still don't know why we must prove to the world he is though? Now I see how jealousy starts in a locker room. One guy makes $500,000 a year (I don't know what the league minimum is?) And you have one guy who makes $500,000 a week? I just don't understand the philosophy on this? But clearly it's business based on a margin how much one athlete makes for the revenue of a baseball franchise. The rule of thumb in business is... you spend half of what you should make. So This 300 million investment should make the Tigers 600 million in sales. Hmmmmmmm Still don't know how it's possible?

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    Quote Originally Posted by TwoWays View Post
    300 mill/10 yr. lol. they will regret this deal in 2 yrs.
    Yeah when he get's another DUI charge

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    Quote Originally Posted by TwoWays View Post
    Kershaw gets that big deal, now he's injured and people stressing over his decreased velocity. lol, teams will never learn.
    what has his velocity been?

    some pitchers velocity rises with the temperature... - Pedro Martinez was like that.

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    I will be the first to predict but baseball is going to hit a serious financial crisis within five years

    The payscales are way way too high verse any other sport

    Less fans going to the game and less fans interested

    You got to be a jerk off to spend $200 but your family to go to a baseball game and support the salaries

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    Wasn't it about 5 years back... all star players in MLB were bitching that they weren't being paid enough? This craziness all started with the A-Rod contract then Pujols.

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    10 years is ridiculous.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Killer_Demo View Post


    What does that have to do with him being the best hitter around, and winning the triple crown. Giants suck now btw.... You have nobody

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    Quote Originally Posted by Itsamazing777 View Post
    What does that have to do with him being the best hitter around, and winning the triple crown. Giants suck now btw.... You have nobody
    most overhyped hitter. Giants made him look like a fat-lop with their pitching staff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by STAX View Post
    Cabrera probably is the best hitter of all time isnt he?
    no.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bill_Hicks View Post
    Many people who vote on these awards are conservative old farts ignorant of/hateful towards advanced stats. Check out WAR, wins above replacement. Best player on the planet on top.
    screw that shit, its not about advanced stats. Its because the guys that vote are to penetrating lazy to look at anything but the back of a baseball card and get googly eyed over HR, RBI and AVG. And don't ever bother to watch a game a see that penetrating Baserunning and Fielded actually make a difference.

    Trout isn't better because some magic nerd stats made up to make him look good. He's better because he excels at huge amounts of the very basics of the game where Cabrera is clearly deficient.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TwoWays View Post
    Kershaw gets that big deal, now he's injured and people stressing over his decreased velocity. lol, teams will never learn.
    Never learn?

    Baseball teams are pretty profitable...

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    Damn, over a quarter of a Billion Dollars! Obscene!
    I remember when the Rangers paid ARod $250 million and they only got better after they dumped him.

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    The topper is that Detroit already had him signed for 2014 and 2015 to begin with. He should start declining around 2016....and this is where they decide to extend him 8 more years ! It's like agreeing to buying a used car a few years from now for more than a similar new model would cost.

    Very few of these contracts are even remotely arguable as being not awful for the club.

    I cant think of a good one for the club that is 10 years or close to it.

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    Detroit??

    How stupid are these teams???

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    Quote Originally Posted by broadway6 View Post
    We can agree to disagree. When a guy hits for the cycle and almost does it again the following year....IMO that's the best player.

    Trout is already a great player...can't argue that.
    I think you mean the Triple Crown.

    He was signed for two more years. This contract extensions kicks in for the 2016 season. Miggy turns 33 in April 2016.

    Doesn't get much worse than this.

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    i know detroit want to reward him for the great year but cant they do it in 2 years

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    this will be worst contract in baseball in 4 years

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    Quote Originally Posted by gryfyn1 View Post
    screw that shit, its not about advanced stats. Its because the guys that vote are to penetrating lazy to look at anything but the back of a baseball card and get googly eyed over HR, RBI and AVG. And don't ever bother to watch a game a see that penetrating Baserunning and Fielded actually make a difference.

    Trout isn't better because some magic nerd stats made up to make him look good. He's better because he excels at huge amounts of the very basics of the game where Cabrera is clearly deficient.
    You're enhancing my argument, as those are what advanced stats cover; or so they say.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Killer_Demo View Post
    most overhyped hitter. Giants made him look like a fat-lop with their pitching staff.
    He's only led almost all hitting stats the last ten years. Yeah he's overhyped. How dumb can you be?
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    All these haters just mad there team ain't got a player like Miggy
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    Quote Originally Posted by paco View Post
    All these haters just mad there team ain't got a player like Miggy
    big greaser 10 years

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    Too much money and too many years for a guy who doesn't take care of himself. Imagine how fat and sloppy this drunk gets when he hits 34-35 years old.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paco View Post
    Best hitter ever
    So was A-Rod. Mo' contract mo' problems.

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    detroit need to win in next couple years before miggy gets too old

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    Quote Originally Posted by yisman View Post
    I think you mean the Triple Crown.

    He was signed for two more years. This contract extensions kicks in for the 2016 season. Miggy turns 33 in April 2016.

    Doesn't get much worse than this.
    Yes I'm an idiot....


    I agree the contract isn't smart. But pujols contract may be worse. He will make an insane amount of money when he's in his 40s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by paco View Post
    Best hitter ever
    Ty Cobb

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    If he wasn't signed for the deal he got, likely he would have landed this deal on 25 other teams. Tigers hands were tied. I don't fault then at all.

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    Quote Originally Posted by broadway6 View Post
    Yes I'm an idiot....


    I agree the contract isn't smart. But pujols contract may be worse. He will make an insane amount of money when he's in his 40s.
    Pujols deal was horrible because he started declining before he even hit FA

    but this could be worse because Pujols was a FA. Miggy was signed for two more years.

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