I'm getting suspicious.... and that's all it is. but some things don't make sense.
I'm starting to think we're cutting salary and trying to put a bad team on the field. Look at the other teams/FA's. The list of FA's the past year or so has been bare of young talented players. Yet we let a guy like Nate walk, without recieveing anything in compensation. It's just not done these days. Now, I am not saying this is true at all, it just seemed familiar to me.
Bad team = less ticket sales and less fan support.
Then RW comlpains about low attendance, asks if he can sell the team to someone who plans to move it. Without a big payroll and no money commited to the future (thanks to cash to the cap) The team becomes very attractive to a buyer who wants to move it to a city like LA or Toronto.
This might be the start of a plan to sell/move this team. The reason i think this is because I lived through the Jeffery Loria owning the Expos hell. This is seems like a much earlier but a less blatant version of what i saw.
Loria came in and would NOT pay young talented players, giving them away left and right. This was of course done very blatantly, and eventually he cancelled most of teh radio/tv deals the team had. They had no exposure and spent nothing on payroll or advertising. he also gave up the lease on a prime peice of downtown land that was meant for a new stadium.
I hope I'm wrong. But we've been letting talent walk for a while, keeping the cap numbers low, we haven't signed a bigger name FA since Takeo, and generally haven't fielded a highly competitive team in a couple years. So It just makes me wonder. Especially since the future of the team has never been addressed by RW.
Now, maybe later today or so Marv and the guys make a huge splash and actually spend some of that cap space on a few key players..... Nothing would make me happier than being wrong on this.......
(I dont' think the sky is falling just yet..... i'm just keeping my eyes open)
I'm starting to think we're cutting salary and trying to put a bad team on the field. Look at the other teams/FA's. The list of FA's the past year or so has been bare of young talented players. Yet we let a guy like Nate walk, without recieveing anything in compensation. It's just not done these days. Now, I am not saying this is true at all, it just seemed familiar to me.
Bad team = less ticket sales and less fan support.
Then RW comlpains about low attendance, asks if he can sell the team to someone who plans to move it. Without a big payroll and no money commited to the future (thanks to cash to the cap) The team becomes very attractive to a buyer who wants to move it to a city like LA or Toronto.
This might be the start of a plan to sell/move this team. The reason i think this is because I lived through the Jeffery Loria owning the Expos hell. This is seems like a much earlier but a less blatant version of what i saw.
Loria came in and would NOT pay young talented players, giving them away left and right. This was of course done very blatantly, and eventually he cancelled most of teh radio/tv deals the team had. They had no exposure and spent nothing on payroll or advertising. he also gave up the lease on a prime peice of downtown land that was meant for a new stadium.
I hope I'm wrong. But we've been letting talent walk for a while, keeping the cap numbers low, we haven't signed a bigger name FA since Takeo, and generally haven't fielded a highly competitive team in a couple years. So It just makes me wonder. Especially since the future of the team has never been addressed by RW.
Now, maybe later today or so Marv and the guys make a huge splash and actually spend some of that cap space on a few key players..... Nothing would make me happier than being wrong on this.......
(I dont' think the sky is falling just yet..... i'm just keeping my eyes open)
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