CANO to Seattle

pgellis · #1 12-06-2013, 11:27 AM

Talk about another albatross of a contract....how about the Ellsbury contract?

It was funny that Yankee fans the other day thought that they could sign Ellsbury, McCann and still get Cano and a pitcher or 2.

Runscott · #2 12-06-2013, 11:39 AM

Wow, surprising how many of the northeastern board crowd are taking snipes at the Mariners fans here - can't you just let us be less-than-miserable for a few days? In return we will still all bow down to the Yankee money and acknowledge their individual player greatness.

Also, you kind of owe us for sending you Brendan Ryan - how could we have foreseen that he would boost his average from .190 to .220? I can't believe that only resulted in a $2 mill per year contract. What cheapskates you guys are.

btcarfagno · #3 12-06-2013, 11:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Runscott

Wow, surprising how many of the northeastern board crowd are taking snipes at the Mariners fans here - can't you just let us be less-than-miserable for a few days? In return we will still all bow down to the Yankee money and acknowledge their individual player greatness.

Also, you kind of owe us for sending you Brendan Ryan - how could we have foreseen that he would boost his average from .190 to .220? I can't believe that only resulted in a $2 mill per year contract. What cheapskates you guys are.

I hate the Yankees with a passion. Just amused that the Mariners, even with this move, will most likely be a .500 team next year.

Tom C

Runscott · #4 12-06-2013, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by btcarfagno

I hate the Yankees with a passion. Just amused that the Mariners, even with this move, will most likely be a .500 team next year.

Tom C

Hey, we can only hope for .500

Last year preseason, the talk was about how great the Astros and Mariners will be in a few years, but with the Mariners brass chasing off Eric Wedge, I fear they are no longer on track. I do believe they needed a Cano-type to take them into this promised future period of greatness, so we'll see.

D. Bergin · #5 12-06-2013, 11:50 AM

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Originally Posted by pgellis

Talk about another albatross of a contract....how about the Ellsbury contract?

It was funny that Yankee fans the other day thought that they could sign Ellsbury, McCann and still get Cano and a pitcher or 2.

This Yankee fan knew Cano was history as soon as Ellsbury signed.

Ellsbury, outside of 1 season, is half the player of Cano and is getting paid nearly as much per season.

Granted, Yankees would have been crazy giving Cano the same 10-year contract, even though he's missed less games in the last 7 years then Ellsbury misses in any given week.

I just don't understand the economics of baseball the last few years. All these long-term guaranteed contracts are insane.

Shoeless Moe · #6 12-06-2013, 11:57 AM

I think the GMs that hand these deals out figure they'll be long gone by the time the contract is up, so it most likely won't be their problem.

Runscott · #7 12-06-2013, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I just don't understand the economics of baseball the last few years. All these long-term guaranteed contracts are insane.

Funny, when I read about Brendan Ryan's new contract, my eyes popped and I had a good discussion about these salaries with a friend.

There are probably good articles/books that explain it, but my guess is they blame it on corporate tickets. Ticket prices and concessions, along with marketing contracts and television, obviously have to go up in order to support these salaries, but it all comes down to what 'we' are willing to pay. Back in the early '80s when I lived in Houston, I could afford to go to as many games as I wanted. Now I scour stub hub for bargains, and still don't go to more than ten each year, and I never pay the beer and food prices.

That leaves all those empty corporate seats. So...large American companies use cheap foreign labor to keep stock prices up and 'their' country's middle class down, use some of that money to tell us on television how much they love us, some of it to buy baseball tickets to hand out some of that love to their upper management, and the seats remain mostly empty.

And we watch the game in a bar over $2.00 happy hour Raniers. Yeah, I'm mad - you corporate management types need to give away those tickets to your underlings if you'd rather go to Ruths Chris for dinner.

Filled seats = less uncomfortable vintage baseball chat forum questions.

JasonD08 · #8 12-06-2013, 12:05 PM

Don't worry they will just pass it off to you season ticket holders.

JoeyF1981 · #9 12-06-2013, 12:32 PM

Wow I didnt even know the mariners had that much money to spend on anything. I live in seattle and the mariners are horrible so hopefully cano coming here will get us at least 3 wins for the season..lol

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