[NU Sports] Joe

[SjT (Stephen J. Truog)]

Amen to that, Jeff. Just one of the many reasons I really could care less about baseball. Sure large markets always had an edge, but at least when I was growing up, the small-town Brewers could put in some hard work, smart decisions and build a winner like they did in the '80s. Now Molitor, Yount and Gantner would be snatched up by the big boys as soon as their contract was up. Even a system as set up to favor the traditional powers as college football is more wide open than major league baseball - where 20-25 teams may as well not even show up for spring training. Their season's over.

And yeah, we have a "New York vs. the New New York (Boston)" Super Bowl next week, but that's a rarity in pro football - where the Green Bays, Pittsburghs and Buffalos are on even footing with the New Yorks, Dallaseseseseses and L.A.s ... oops, scratch that last one.:)

NU alum at the helm or not, the Yankees are still up there with the likes of the Evil Empire on the boo-able list.

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

----- Original Message ----
From: Jeff Beamsley <jeff.beamsley at hilgraeve.com>
To: nwu-sports at romaine.tssi.com
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 8:58:17 AM
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] Joe

No doubt that Girardi is a good guy, but the Yankees and more recently
 the
Red Sox are examples of everything that is broken in baseball.  So
 rooting
for them is like rooting for the lion rather than the Christian.
  Fortunately
you still have teams like the Rockies who prove that occasionally small
budget teams can catch lightning in a bottle.  But the long term health
 of
the game depends on parity and as long as big market teams can gain a
competitive advantage by out spending small market teams for free
 agents the
game will always be to some degree "rigged".  There is some hope that
 the
Rocks' success may prove that small budget teams can use their farm
 systems
to effectively compete against teams made up of expensive free agents.
  We'll
see.  

Jeff





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