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lipidquadcab

Post subject: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like money"

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:11 pm

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Paying anyone 30 million a year is, on it's own, absurd. Paying an arm that much...yuck.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/mlb/stor ... 15-million

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Big Chicagoan

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:13 pm

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Dodgers must be rolling in dough. They are starting to make the Yankees look like the Astros.

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Bucky Chris

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:14 pm

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Praying this takes them out of the Tanaka sweepstakes.

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Nas

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:15 pm

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Bucky Chris wrote:

Praying this takes them out of the Tanaka sweepstakes.

Probably not. Even though they wouldn't spend that type of money on Robinson Cano.

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NearWessSideHussra

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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:21 pm

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Dodgers get $340 mil per season just from their new local TV deal--that's before ticket sales, merch, concessions...

Not sure how the $340 mil a season average is distributed over the life of the deal.

Big Chicagoan wrote:

Dodgers must be rolling in dough. They are starting to make the Yankees look like the Astros.

Last edited by NearWessSideHussra on Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:23 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Nas

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:23 pm

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NearWessSideHussra wrote:

Dodgers get $340 mil per season just from their new local TV deal--that's before ticket sales, merch, concessions...

Big Chicagoan wrote:

Dodgers must be rolling in dough. They are starting to make the Yankees look like the Astros.

So basically they are in great shape. Winning a WS will only drive that price up.

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Powerhouse233

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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:24 pm

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Dodgers are now Yankees NL with their willingness to spend enormous amount of cash and seemingly every available free agent. My guess would be that the Japanese free agent will be signing with the Dodgers as well.

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NearWessSideHussra

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:25 pm

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Good chart at this link listing every MLB team's annual TV revenue:

http://www.fangraphs.com/blogs/dodgers- ... l-tv-deal/

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Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:45 pm

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Cubs are throwing this shitfit over $50MM a year? I mean, it could certainly be higher, and it will, but people make it sound like the Cubs make nothing from WGN. What was even more shocking was that the White Sox make $45.5 with lower ratings.

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Keyser Soze

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 6:56 pm

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Bucky Chris wrote:

Praying this takes them out of the Tanaka sweepstakes.

You should pray it doesn't take them out of the Tanaka sweepstakes.

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conns7901

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 8:51 pm

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So which year does this deal start to look really bad?

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Big Chicagoan

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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:08 pm

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conns7901 wrote:

So which year does this deal start to look really bad?

The year after he blows out his shoulder and/or elbow.

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Jaw Breaker

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Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2014 9:27 pm

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The Cubs' $50m doesn't look out of whack against the Yankees' $90m...how in the world do the Dodgers get $340m per year?

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Frank Coztansa

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:13 am

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MLB needs a salary cap and a salary floor. Sports salaries in general are crazy, but this is completely out of whack. Its absurd.

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Hawg Ass

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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 9:25 am

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conns7901 wrote:

So which year does this deal start to look really bad?

He can opt out after 5 years, which will put him in line for his next monster contract should he stay healthy, he will be 30.

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Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:16 pm

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Frank Coztansa wrote:

MLB needs a salary cap and a salary floor. Sports salaries in general are crazy, but this is completely out of whack. Its absurd.

Took me a long time to come around on this, but I agree. Guggenheim has almost singlehandedly taken us into English/Spanish soccer territory, where all this money is being spent and no one knows how or why. The union would never accept it, though, nor would the elite, nor would the Marlins. But things have to start making some sense again.

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KDdidit

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:23 pm

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Fuck salary caps. Just wait til the Dodgers give Trout $40 million a year when he hits free agency.

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Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:32 pm

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I always keep an eye on Capgeek in my NHL fandom, so while I've gotten a good handle on the scale of NHL salaries, everything else sounds insane by comparison. I'll hear someone say something like "11 million is about what you have to pay for Kyle Lohse" and my eyes pop out of my head like a cartoon.

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Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:33 pm

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Time to trade Sale!

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Keyser Soze

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:41 pm

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Curious Hair wrote:

I read somewhere that MLB pays the lowest percentage of revenues to it's players of all the major sports.

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Curious Hair

Post subject: Re: Kershaw gets 215m over 7 yrs AKA "Dodgers don't like mon

Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:42 pm

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Keyser Soze wrote:

Curious Hair wrote:

I read somewhere that MLB pays the lowest percentage of revenues to it's players of all the major sports.

Then that's truly insane. I'm pretty certain their CBA doesn't set a percentage of total revenue for the players like the other three leagues do. NHL is at 50% down from 57%, I think the NBA floats somewhere between 48% and 52% because nothing involving NBA accounting can ever be simple, and the NFL is 48%.

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Keyser Soze

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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:46 pm

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I believe that's correct. That's why there needs to be a salary floor. Too many teams are pocketing tons of cash while hiding behind small market/rebuilding excuses.

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Curious Hair

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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:54 pm

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Keyser Soze wrote:

Too many teams are pocketing tons of cash while hiding behind small market/rebuilding excuses.

Lying is just part of The Plan.

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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 1:56 pm

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Players received 63 percent of revenues in 2003, a high in recent history according to the Sports Business Journal (and players received 60 percent of revenue in 1994). But players’ percentage share has decreased by 20 percent in a decade. Players’ share of revenues dipped below 50 percent in 2010, and according to Tribune-Review calculations, it reached 42 percent in 2013.

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Nas

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Posted: Thu Jan 16, 2014 10:24 pm

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KDdidit wrote:

Fuck salary caps. Just wait til the Dodgers give Trout $40 million a year when he hits free agency.

There will be more teams than just the Dodgers lining up to do it. How many more years before he can test the market?

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