Go St. Louis Cardinals!! :)

I don't know who you are l, so I can't see if you get hurt or not.

I was making a point with my statement.

16 games vs 162 games. I football player takes a lot of abuse at one time, but that doesn't mean the long season of a baseball player doesn't have any less impact on him physically.

Who is watching the WS? If not Surprise, surprise!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

Wow.

Fister got beaned! Wow!

I thought the Tigers were going to sweep SF, I guess I was wrong!

But to early to tell, good game tonight.

SWEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!! GIANTS!!!!!!!

Wish I was in SF to watch the game. Had work so I was watching in an empty patient's room during my break haha.

The Red Sox haven't really done much this offseason to field a winning team. Looks like a .500 year at best.

Toronto is the one getting beefy this off season.

The NYY have done $hit either. :shakes head:

NYY no longer with biggest payroll....LA Dodgers and Toronto got 1st and 2nd this year.

You sure. LA 213M, NYY 210M, Toronto 115M. Looks like Phillies are third at 158M.

Not much difference between 1st and 2nd.

What a turn around for the dodgers going from almost Bankruptcy to biggest payroll. Hope they know what they're Doing over there in LA.

The Nationals are not to far behind either. 3M to me still big money, maybe not to you.:icon17:

3M is a lot to us but in the context of 210 versus 213M, not so much. It's about 1.4% of the budget. Peanuts for these guys.

If you say so.....

Spring Training is here YEAH!!!!!!!!! Can't wait for the 2013 Season, GO YANKEES!!!!!

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Thats what u guys going to be counting with? Magic? :bowrofl:

:stirthepot:

:icon18: That's the old fight song.

I'm looking forward to this season, although the Orioles' offseason was similarly quiet.

Looking forward to watching Giants baseball again although still not feeling good after the super bowl.

The Orioles got Magic Johnson? What a sad day in Baltimore when they can only get a 20 + yr retiree from basketball.

Well Baltimore is SAD anyway you put it!!!! :roflpuke2:

Judge rules that Yankees are baseball’s only ‘Evil Empire’

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Y! SPORTS

Again, the Yankees use their never ending access to funds to squeeze another little guy out of competition.

The Yankees had plenty of time to trade mark "Baseball's Evil Empire" but didn't so should forfeit their rights to it.


What I'd like to see is Disney sue the Yankees for using "evil empire" and "the imperial march" which is clearly a reference to Star Wars. Finally someone with enough money to give the Yankees a beat down.

That's all you can do, WISH & HATE!

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Few more days, show up now not in Sep/Oct to jump on the Hate Wagon.....

Let's Go ORIOLES :D

All the old guys in New York are showing their age and coming up lame

Update....

NEW YORK (AP) -Alex Rodriguez will make more this year than all the Houston Astros combined - a lot more.

And he won't even play the first half of the season, if at all.

A-Rod's $29 million salary tops the major leagues for the 13th straight season, according to a study of major league contracts by The Associated Press.

Rodriguez's Yankees are on track to have the highest payroll on opening day for the 15th straight year, climbing above the Los Angeles Dodgers to a projected $228 million with this week's acquisition of Vernon Wells.

With teams due to set opening-day rosters Sunday, the Yankees' payroll will be nearly 10 times the spending of the Astros, who have shrunk their payroll to about $25 million.

"No one expects us to do well," Astros pitcher Lucas Harrell said. "So when we do well, it's going to be kind of like, `Oh, wow.' I definitely think we have a chance to shock a lot of people this year."

Rodriguez, recovering from hip surgery, is followed on the money list by Philadelphia pitcher Cliff Lee at $25 million.

Three of the top six will start the season on the DL, with A-Rod joined by New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana (third at $24.6 million) and Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira (sixth at $23.1 million). Wells is fourth at $24.6 million and CC Sabathia fifth at $24.3 million, giving the Yankees four of the top six.

The Astros and Miami Marlins have no such worries about pricey players getting hurt. After lifting payroll to about $100 million at the start of last year and then flopping in the first year of their new ballpark, the Marlins slashed spending to around $40 million.

The price of competing keeps going up. The average salary projects to about $3.67 million, up about $200,000 from the start of last season.

As always, the Yankees did as they pleased. For all the talk of austerity under owner Hal Steinbrenner, New York will break the record of $209 million it set in 2008 and top the $200 million mark for the sixth straight season. While the Yankees will pay luxury tax for the 11th consecutive year in 2013, they want to get under the $189 million tax threshold in 2014.

For much of the offseason, it appeared as if the Dodgers would emerge as baseball's biggest spenders in their first full season since a group headed by Mark Walter, Stan Kasten and Magic Johnson bought the club for $2 billion from Frank McCourt.

Just 12th at $95 million on opening day last year, the Dodgers climbed to about $216 million after acquiring Josh Beckett, Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford from Boston last summer, when they also added Hanley Ramirez and Brandon League. Los Angeles then signed Zack Greinke during the offseason for $147 million. The Yankees had been the only previous team to reach $200 million.

The regular season have not start and I feel the Love Hate! :p

I just asked for your team not to write a Bible about something that I already knew, duuhhhh!!!!. :shakes head: :shakes head:


O'RLY, I didn't know that....:rolleyes:

Lemers every season has a different team...because Texas cannot get the job done. :stirthepot:

What are you talking about? I've always been and will always be a Boston Red Sox fan. I just know enough about the sport to talk about teams other than the Red Sox.

As far ad the Yankee injuries, Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter will all be on the DL opening day. That's an $80 million DL payroll.

Haters are going to Hate!!!! :icon18:

How is stating facts hating?

If you are not drooling all over the Yankees, then Papo will accuse you of hating.

When the Yankees don't win the east this year there won't be anything to hate about.

Why everybody worry about the Yankees, worry about your own team ;)

I don't expect NY to win all the time, that is what other people expect so they can talk $hit about them when they don't win...

As a fan I don't have any control on what they do or happens like payroll and/or injuries...

You are totally WRONG my friend, the Yankees are like the Cowboys in the NFL the most hated.

However win or lose I'm always a fan for life and don't jump in another team bandwagon when my team doesn't win like you did last season. ;)

You guys should listen to the media here in Canada. They're already planning the parade for Toronto because of all the trades.

Haha, Orioles will always be my team, like I previously stated.

Hoping the Tigers would beat the Yankees isn't jumping on their bandwagon. :bowrofl:

There is a lot of that talk down here too.

I agree. Pop seems to think that going for one of two teams during the World Series is being a fair weather fan.

Even during the season I going for teams other than the Red Sox if it helps the sox in the long run.