Anyone care to buy a J? Geoff?

If he stays healthy for the remainder of the year.. you need to resign him for 3-4 or something… he’s arguably the most consistent guy on the entire team this year, Chase included…

But if the Yankees or someone is going to overpay, you can’t go matching crazy dollars just to keep him, cause they need starting pitching more than anything.

Rollins has been disappointing this year, but when he’s going he can still spark this team… same with Victorino.. I’m a big fan of both of those guys, and it would be a big blow to this team if either of them wasn’t in the lineup.

I love Victorino and think he is one of the most overrated players in the league. He is so good defensively… Mi thoughts on Rollins is that his heart (omg intangible!!!!) just isn’t in it this year. I understand that he had a career year last season, but he is still under performing. I would definitely not resign him after his current contract is up.

What are your feelings on Burrell. Would you want to resign him?

And that the fans all want to win more than the owners do…

Honestly, Mark Cuban or Ed Snider would be AWESOME to have as the owners of this club.. but the guys currently in place are making $$$millions.. so they aren’t going away anytime soon… it all comes down to it being a business.. and the fans get screwed because of it

bruce is worse, to bruce, pat gillick is some sort of demigod.

True, but it just feels so wrong when a sports team does it.

I just try to point out the facts, and make everyone stop and think, and not just repeat whatever the morons on 610wip are yelling about..

There are some real issues.. I was the one calling for Rollins and Victorino’s heads when the team was losing and they weren’t doing anything (instead of going after 8-hole hitter Carlos Ruiz, and So Taguchi and stuff)… And as much as people want to say Ed Wade sucks, Gillick sucks, Amaro sucks, and Arbuckle sucks… SOMEBODY has to be credited with putting this team together… right?

weve been in a downturn since 2006, and have been in a flat out recession almost long enough for it to be technically considered a “textbook,” not great, depression. (recession = 2 quarters of negative growth, depression = 4 quarters negative growth).

so if all this stuff goes on, and we all know it goes on. (this is all really obvious, right? it should be), then OF COURSE mlb teams lie about their payroll and revenue figures.

in the meantime.. why not enjoy the team as they are and hope they make a run in the postseason

He may not be GREAT like Bobby Abreu… but he’s not bad..

I don’t think you read anything that anone else writes…

I’ve said all along that he’s made some bad moves (but all GMs do)…but that his good moves have outweighed the bad, and improved this team since he’s been here… its either that or LUCK…

I don’t know if you’ve ever read anything by Andrew Zimbalist. He is an economist, a professor at Smith College, and he has written a few books about baseball economics. Very interesting stuff.

A couple quick things about it….You got it right, the revenue numbers are what was REPORTED, not the actual numbers. Just like any major corporation, MLB teams have accountants that finagle the numbers and hide money. There are many reasons for this of course, like revenue sharing, for example.

The bottom line is that MLB teams are very good at obfuscating (lying is such a nasty word) about their financial picture. Although we will never know how much, it is beyond question that they are hiding money.