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ooops. Facing odorizzi right now.
Quote from: fun muffin on June 13, 2013, 08:03:51 PMooops. Facing odorizzi right now.Kinda odd to bring him in here as he was scheduled to throw in two days. Is Tampa's bullpen just depleted as eff or something?
Quote from: jtksu on June 13, 2013, 08:38:57 PMQuote from: fun muffin on June 13, 2013, 08:03:51 PMooops. Facing odorizzi right now.Kinda odd to bring him in here as he was scheduled to throw in two days. Is Tampa's bullpen just depleted as eff or something?They announced the starters for the next three at the beginning of tonight's game and odorizzi was not one of them
5 back, 2 behind .500not bad after the crap we went through.
Quote from: scottwildcat on June 13, 2013, 10:24:16 PM5 back, 2 behind .500not bad after the crap we went through.It hurts to think about where we'd be if we were just semi-terrible during that stretch.
Quote from: jtksu on June 13, 2013, 08:38:57 PMQuote from: fun muffin on June 13, 2013, 08:03:51 PMooops. Facing odorizzi right now.Kinda odd to bring him in here as he was scheduled to throw in two days. Is Tampa's bullpen just depleted as eff or something?Sent down after the game.
Quote from: Dub on June 14, 2013, 12:58:00 AMQuote from: jtksu on June 13, 2013, 08:38:57 PMQuote from: fun muffin on June 13, 2013, 08:03:51 PMooops. Facing odorizzi right now.Kinda odd to bring him in here as he was scheduled to throw in two days. Is Tampa's bullpen just depleted as eff or something?Sent down after the game. Yeah, he's been rough ridin' terrible so far. Trade looks great right now but will look terrible after Shields tells us to GTFO and signs with the Yankees or someone.
The Yankee's are actually cutting/keeping payroll steady. Now that old man steinbrenner is gone his son's actually care about making money. From a grantland articleThe luxury tax, which was first instituted in the collective bargaining agreement after the 2002 season, would be more accurately called The Yankee Tax. The Yankees have exceeded the threshold every year since its creation, and the franchise has paid anywhere from $12 million to $34 million a year for the privilege of lapping the field in payroll. The Red Sox are the only other team that has paid meaningful taxes.3 They have gone over the threshold six times, but they never paid much more than $6 million in penalties. For years, the Yankees have acted as if the luxury tax was just the cost of doing business. But George Steinbrenner died in 2010, and his maniacal focus on winning seems to have gone with him. His sons, Hank and Hal, like winning just fine, but they would prefer to win and make piles of money. So, although they've been willing to maintain the team's payroll well above the current luxury-tax threshold of $178 million, they haven't increased payroll in eight years.
The newest CBA, agreed to after the 2011 season, included two key changes [PDF] to the luxury tax. The first is that the highest tax rate (which, of course, applies to the Yankees) was increased from 40 to 50 percent. The second change is that, should a team avoid the luxury tax even once, its tax rate will drop back to the lowest level (17.5 percent) the next time it exceeds the threshold, and rise incrementally from there. In other words, if the Yankees can get below the tax threshold just once, they won't just save millions of dollars that year, they'll also save millions for the three subsequent years even if they jack up their payroll again.
my favorite mlb streaming website just went out.i'm not going to follow a team exclusively via gamecasts and i'm not paying a dime for mlb streams. my royals fandom is on thin ice here. help me out fellow royals bros.
Quote from: Dlew12 on June 13, 2013, 07:57:21 PMmy favorite mlb streaming website just went out.i'm not going to follow a team exclusively via gamecasts and i'm not paying a dime for mlb streams. my royals fandom is on thin ice here. help me out fellow royals bros.MarriedMissouriCat has an mlb.com account. text him.
Quote from: Kelly Stewart Creep on June 14, 2013, 10:32:38 AMQuote from: Dlew12 on June 13, 2013, 07:57:21 PMmy favorite mlb streaming website just went out.i'm not going to follow a team exclusively via gamecasts and i'm not paying a dime for mlb streams. my royals fandom is on thin ice here. help me out fellow royals bros.MarriedMissouriCat has an mlb.com account. text him.that jerk will never share.
Royals really playing well, and George Brett in the dugout. Is this great, or what?
Quote from: bones129 on June 15, 2013, 12:02:49 AMRoyals really playing well, and George Brett in the dugout. Is this great, or what? What is it now, like 9 of 10?
