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https://www.stevetheump.com/Payrolls.htm Maybe it's accurate. Yes, there are years of very low spending but there are also years of high spending. I think the problem isn't how much but on whom.

Haven't we had payrolls in the top ten many years and even as high as fifth?

Let's lose a hundred by 4-1 instead of 6-1. The games are over quicker. With the draft rules in place winning 75 won't be bad. Overall they are making small moves but nothing too stupid. We didn't expect a big splash signing. Project 2026 has commenced.

I received an email from the Sox that I'm first in line for tickets, came here and read this. Y'all can cut in line.

I'm inclined to agree with you. I want to be the insurance rep on that contract. Huge commission.

Time for an upper and lower division. Sixteen teams in each. Bottom two teams move down each year. Let more cities have a chance at some success.

That's been his twenty year plan. Hey let's stop winning, these parades give me a head ache.

Jerry had a deep dish pizza delivered from Lou's. Let's follow his every move like Ohtani lol

My hunch has been each team has about the same number of dedicated fans and it's not that greatn of a number. Maybe 20% of the fans that will engage with one of the teams. After that it's, take it or leave it maybe go to a game or do something else, convenience, standings, star player in town, but they would go to either one. It's all fighting for what some would call the band wagon jumpers. I did most of my baseball entertaining at Sox games. Dinner and a game without the buyer leaving their office early was easier than a game and dinner in most cases.

Ohtani finally figured out that Canadian to US dollar app. ?

Yep. The Jays phone lines will be jammed Monday morning with cancellations.

Bob pulls back the sheets to discover pillows. Fooled again.

Spotted in the Toronto airport

One of our posters enjoyed the signing a bit more than the rest of us.

Lmao. This has been the best thread of the off season.

Post of the off season.

Ironically Shohei would be out of the limelight in Toronto

How much of that goes away if he's injured or just playing average?

Great thread. ?

Interesting. That's a big number.

That was my thought. It is a great city based on a couple of times I visited. Fans will go crazy no matter where he is. Even if there are four more teams in the state or even one across town.

I'm usually for signing a superstar but Ohtani'$ contract is a gamble I don't think I'd take. Good luck to Toronto if it's them. I'd like to be the insurance salesman writing that policy.

Key to Rogers’ pitch was something no other team could offer: the ability to command the attention of an entire country. The Blue Jays have been Canada’s only major league team since the Montreal Expos relocated to Washington, D.C. before the 2005 season. So JR helped Toronto land him.

I think it's stupid but I think most rules are stupid. They are adults and should know how to look and act. Of course that didn't really work for TLR who had no rules.