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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 15:44:24 GMT -5
Biancala didn't sleep with half of the female population of New York (&, one gathers, a goodly percentage of the male portion of the Yankees fan base as well) & keep the foundering gift-basket industry afloat in the process. In these perilous economic times, that's no small thing. I heard the percentage is closer to 30, women who rank an "8" thru "10" and who zryson approved as well. He never did build enough bedrooms in his Florida mansion has a Florida mansion? Cool. |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 21, 2014 15:47:28 GMT -5
I heard the percentage is closer to 30, women who rank an "8" thru "10" and who zryson approved as well. He never did build enough bedrooms in his Florida mansion has a Florida mansion? Cool. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 15:52:48 GMT -5
If you've never seen it, this is Jeter's Fla mansion....  -M |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 15:54:24 GMT -5
Our humble, self-effacing hero.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 15:59:28 GMT -5
Zryson has a Florida mansion? Cool. Much cooler than that obscenely bloated Xanadu-esque monstrosity that Captain Gift Basket maintains as a tribute to his much-worshipped self, no doubt out of overcompensation for a richly deserved inferiority complex (the man is too smart not to realize he's a historically piss-poor SS in the field, no matter what the lying eyes of craven fanboys [like, uh, a certain friend of ours] tell them, though of course at the same time he's also too bloody self-absorbed to have consented to move to a position for which he would've been much better suited, even though his team, & especially the pitchers, would've benefited almost immeasurably). Good taste on zryson's part, I say. |
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Post by Action Ace on Sept 21, 2014 16:03:16 GMT -5
Our humble, self-effacing hero. The man needs the room to house war orphans. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 16:09:17 GMT -5
Our humble, self-effacing hero. The man needs the room to house war orphans. Or shell-shocked Yankees pitchers who've watched sure out after sure out roll into the OF "past a diving Jeter." |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 16:36:17 GMT -5
I would like to see Jeter become an owner one day (as he has purported to have interest in doing), maybe even one of the Fla teams and see if he can use that money to make those teams viable in those markets. I dislike the Rays because of divisional rivalries, but they would be a perennial contender if they had the money to keep all the talent they developed, the fact they are competitive so often despite the obstacles of that market and limitations of its current owners is impressive. However the fact no one will go see a game at the Trop even in the thick of a pennant race or playoff game leads me to suspect the team either needs to move or get a better stadium. Jeter's money could be the trick to get the team to stay and into a facility that will do the trick in that community. Heck they might even be able to fit the new stadium inside his mansion there....
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Post by The Captain on Sept 21, 2014 19:34:14 GMT -5
I would like to see Jeter become an owner one day (as he has purported to have interest in doing), maybe even one of the Fla teams and see if he can use that money to make those teams viable in those markets. I dislike the Rays because of divisional rivalries, but they would be a perennial contender if they had the money to keep all the talent they developed, the fact they are competitive so often despite the obstacles of that market and limitations of its current owners is impressive. However the fact no one will go see a game at the Trop even in the thick of a pennant race or playoff game leads me to suspect the team either needs to move or get a better stadium. Jeter's money could be the trick to get the team to stay and into a facility that will do the trick in that community. Heck they might even be able to fit the new stadium inside his mansion there.... -M This would make for a great story, but to be an owner of a MLB franchise, you need a "B" in front of your "-illions", and for as much money as Jeter has stolen for playing substandard SS for the past two decades, he still only has an "M" in front of his.
Even if he were to buy a team like the Rays, the bigger issue is that he's not going to spend his own money to put a winner on the field, unless he seriously wants to go broke. George Steinbrenner could spend ludicrous amounts of money on his Yankees teams because he had the YES Network, the NY market, and the fact that kids from Butte, Montana to Albuquerque, New Mexico to Nashville, Tennessee would go out and buy Yankees gear because, in lieu of having their own team to root for, they gravitated to the one they saw on TV the most. The Dodgers can have a ridiculous payroll filled with All-Stars at every position not because Magic Johnson is part of their ownership group, but because their local TV contract pays them $250MM annually; that's more revenue than a good number of teams make from all their revenue streams combined.
This is one of the things that people in Pittsburgh hate about our current owner, in that he is in the top 10 of all owners in terms of personal wealth but the Pirates' payroll is perennially in the bottom 5 of the league. They expect him to spend his own money on the team like it was a plaything, but he runs it like a business; he spends what he takes in (including revenue sharing) and pays down debt on the team (thus improving his equity and increasing what he'll make when he eventually sells), but he refuses to act like a drunken sailor in a Thailand brothel.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 19:42:05 GMT -5
I don't think Jeter could buy a team outright, but like Lemieux in the NHL, Jordan in the NBA, Magic in multiple sports, he could be the face and driving force behind a coalition that acquires a team. You don't spend your own money on a team you own, but you need the money to secure the financing required to get the purchase money, and I would say Jeter, like a lot of athletes, has earned more in endorsement deals than he ever did from any of his MLB contracts. Jeter is the face that gives the group credibility and leverage in negotiations to hammer out favorable deals for stadiums, TV deals etc. that provide the foundation of capital needed to succeed in this kind of venture, and gives the franchise a draw even if the names on the field are not as well known. This increases television presence, ESPN coverage, attendance, etc. also generating more revenue and making the team a draw for free agents, selling merchandise like hats and jerseys, etc. I would never expect him to spend his own money, but he would be the type of figurehead that would bring the kind of movers and shakers to invest in such a venture.
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 21, 2014 19:45:41 GMT -5
If you've never seen it, this is Jeter's Fla mansion.... -M Ersatz shortstop and supposed man of the people lives in a cottage that looks like one of the Lego Harry Potter kits. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2014 19:57:06 GMT -5
As if obscene wealth & the ostentatious display thereof by obnoxious boors who need to be introduced to the nearest lamppost with their name on it didn't already make my skin absolutely crawl ...
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Post by DubipR on Sept 21, 2014 20:03:33 GMT -5
Dodgers magic number is 3.... awww yeah!
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 21, 2014 20:24:00 GMT -5
Dodgers magic number is 3.... awww yeah! One might argue that baseball's magic number is 3... |
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Post by Prince Hal on Sept 21, 2014 20:24:54 GMT -5
As if obscene wealth & the ostentatious display thereof by obnoxious boors who need to be introduced to the nearest lamppost with their name on it didn't already make my skin absolutely crawl ... "I lift my lamp beside the golden door..." |
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