still can to the "ZERO".

 

I like this guy.

 

 

• “Tanking” is another subject that’s been in the papers lately, and ESPN.com’s Buster Olney reports that it was also a topic of discussion at the most recent owner’s meeting. There are tie-ins to the revenue sharing system, Olney suggests, with some contributing organizations feeling that recipient clubs should be required to utilize those funds in service of their major league roster.
   
  

Hopefully this will be part of the CBI negotiations.  It would force Loria to spend more money on MLB FA and international FA.

 

 

The tanking thing is a fine line that's hard to prove and I'm not just talking about Loria.

 

Is rebuilding a bad team a bad thing to do? Trading away ugly contracts and getting younger can be good way to restart a team. Losing comes along with that but to absolutely prove that a team is specifically tanking would be real hard and would make it tricky. It's almost a business version of "is the catcher blocking the plate?"

 

 

The tanking thing is a fine line that's hard to prove and I'm not just talking about Loria.

 

Is rebuilding a bad team a bad thing to do? Trading away ugly contracts and getting younger can be good way to restart a team. Losing comes along with that but to absolutely prove that a team is specifically tanking would be real hard and would make it tricky. It's almost a business version of "is the catcher blocking the plate?"

 

I think what its alluding to is the possibility of a discussion of a salary floor.  This way there isn't a need to discuss the matter of tanking because you are right, its hard to prove.  If that's the case, then sign me up as a supporter! 

 

 

Salary floor is a decent start but it's not without faults. Does spending money automatically equal success? Ask the 2012 Marlins about that. Does a low payroll team automatically mean failure or tanking it? There's plenty of playoff teams constructed with low payrolls. If a team can consistently get competitive teams out of lower payrolls why force them to spend to reach a salary floor? 

 

I'm not sure this tanking discussion is gonna get far. 

 

 

Salary floor is a decent start but it's not without faults. Does spending money automatically equal success? Ask the 2012 Marlins about that. Does a low payroll team automatically mean failure or tanking it? There's plenty of playoff teams constructed with low payrolls. If a team can consistently get competitive teams out of lower payrolls why force them to spend to reach a salary floor? 

 

I'm not sure this tanking discussion is gonna get far. 

 

I just want them to get the teams receiving welfare to be forced to spend that money on payroll.  For me, the bigger problem is the Loria's of the world pocketing money from other teams that was meant to help make them competitive.  

 

 

I just want them to get the teams receiving welfare to be forced to spend that money on payroll.  For me, the bigger problem is the Loria's of the world pocketing money from other teams that was meant to help make them competitive.  

 

That's fair, can't argue that one. Tanking, higher payrolls equaling wins, and lower payrolls equaling losses are all hard to prove. But forcing shared revenue to be spent on player payroll is possible.

 

 

That's fair, can't argue that one. Tanking, higher payrolls equaling wins, and lower payrolls equaling losses are all hard to prove. But forcing shared revenue to be spent on player payroll is possible.

 

Not really.  Loria will just start pocketing an equal amount of nonshared revenue to account for the extra shared revenue he spends on payroll.  Money is fungible.

 

What the owners need to do is force him to sell.

 

 

It's funny,I think only the players want the teams to spend more on the revenue sharing money but not the owners,because players would earn more money due to that,but the owners would only been forced to increase the money to sign free agents due to the "more teams bidding on free agents because they NEED TO SPEND ALL THE REVENUE SHARING MONEY".

 

 

It's funny because all Loria would have to do is reach the min, which you know small market teams will lobby like crazy for a lowish number. Can't stand this guy. He might want to win but holy rap he doesn't know how #cultureofstfuvince

 

of course he want to win,but sadly he want to pocket the MONEY more.

 

 

Anybody knows that before Loria buy our team,have any other bidder was better than him in the finance and image ? and I think if he still have a passion for baseball,it's difficult for him to sell our team,because with his terrible evaluation I don't think he would be approved again to buy a team after sell the Marlins.