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Lemers · 02-19-2013, 02:13 PM

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Originally Posted by PapoZalsa

Thats what u guys going to counting with? Magic?

The Orioles got Magic Johnson? What a sad day in Baltimore when they can only get a 20 + yr retiree from basketball.

PapoZalsa · 02-20-2013, 10:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Lemers

The Orioles got Magic Johnson? What a sad day in Baltimore when they can only get a 20 + yr retiree from basketball.

Well Baltimore is SAD anyway you put it!!!!

PapoZalsa · 02-23-2013, 08:51 PM

Judge rules that Yankees are baseball’s only ‘Evil Empire’

Y! SPORTS

Lemers · 02-25-2013, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by PapoZalsa

Judge rules that Yankees are baseball’s only ‘Evil Empire’

Y! SPORTS

Again, the Yankees use their never ending access to funds to squeeze another little guy out of competition.

The Yankees had plenty of time to trade mark "Baseball's Evil Empire" but didn't so should forfeit their rights to it.

What I'd like to see is Disney sue the Yankees for using "evil empire" and "the imperial march" which is clearly a reference to Star Wars. Finally someone with enough money to give the Yankees a beat down.

PapoZalsa · 02-25-2013, 10:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Lemers

Again, the Yankees use their never ending access to funds to squeeze another little guy out of competition.

The Yankees had plenty of time to trade mark "Baseball's Evil Empire" but didn't so should forfeit their rights to it.

What I'd like to see is Disney sue the Yankees for using "evil empire" and "the imperial march" which is clearly a reference to Star Wars. Finally someone with enough money to give the Yankees a beat down.

That's all you can do, WISH & HATE!

PapoZalsa · 03-26-2013, 06:29 PM

Few more days, show up now not in Sep/Oct to jump on the Hate Wagon.....

shadoquad · 03-26-2013, 07:26 PM

Let's Go ORIOLES

Lemers · 03-28-2013, 11:51 PM

All the old guys in New York are showing their age and coming up lame

Roadster4Us · 03-29-2013, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by PapoZalsa

NYY no longer with biggest payroll....LA Dodgers and Toronto got 1st and 2nd this year.

Update....

NEW YORK (AP) -Alex Rodriguez will make more this year than all the Houston Astros combined - a lot more.

And he won't even play the first half of the season, if at all.

A-Rod's $29 million salary tops the major leagues for the 13th straight season, according to a study of major league contracts by The Associated Press.

Rodriguez's Yankees are on track to have the highest payroll on opening day for the 15th straight year, climbing above the Los Angeles Dodgers to a projected $228 million with this week's acquisition of Vernon Wells.

With teams due to set opening-day rosters Sunday, the Yankees' payroll will be nearly 10 times the spending of the Astros, who have shrunk their payroll to about $25 million.

"No one expects us to do well," Astros pitcher Lucas Harrell said. "So when we do well, it's going to be kind of like, `Oh, wow.' I definitely think we have a chance to shock a lot of people this year."

Rodriguez, recovering from hip surgery, is followed on the money list by Philadelphia pitcher Cliff Lee at $25 million.

Three of the top six will start the season on the DL, with A-Rod joined by New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana (third at $24.6 million) and Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira (sixth at $23.1 million). Wells is fourth at $24.6 million and CC Sabathia fifth at $24.3 million, giving the Yankees four of the top six.

The Astros and Miami Marlins have no such worries about pricey players getting hurt. After lifting payroll to about $100 million at the start of last year and then flopping in the first year of their new ballpark, the Marlins slashed spending to around $40 million.

The price of competing keeps going up. The average salary projects to about $3.67 million, up about $200,000 from the start of last season.

As always, the Yankees did as they pleased. For all the talk of austerity under owner Hal Steinbrenner, New York will break the record of $209 million it set in 2008 and top the $200 million mark for the sixth straight season. While the Yankees will pay luxury tax for the 11th consecutive year in 2013, they want to get under the $189 million tax threshold in 2014.

For much of the offseason, it appeared as if the Dodgers would emerge as baseball's biggest spenders in their first full season since a group headed by Mark Walter, Stan Kasten and Magic Johnson bought the club for $2 billion from Frank McCourt.

Just 12th at $95 million on opening day last year, the Dodgers climbed to about $216 million after acquiring Josh Beckett, Adrian Gonzalez, Carl Crawford from Boston last summer, when they also added Hanley Ramirez and Brandon League. Los Angeles then signed Zack Greinke during the offseason for $147 million. The Yankees had been the only previous team to reach $200 million.

PapoZalsa · 03-29-2013, 10:14 PM

The regular season have not start and I feel the Love Hate!

I just asked for your team not to write a Bible about something that I already knew, duuhhhh!!!!.

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Originally Posted by Lemers

All the old guys in New York are showing their age and coming up lame

O'RLY, I didn't know that....

Lemers every season has a different team...because Texas cannot get the job done.

Lemers · 03-30-2013, 12:24 PM

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Originally Posted by PapoZalsa

The regular season have not start and I feel the Love Hate!

I just asked for your team not to write a Bible about something that I already knew, duuhhhh!!!!.

O'RLY, I didn't know that....

Lemers every season has a different team...because Texas cannot get the job done.

What are you talking about? I've always been and will always be a Boston Red Sox fan. I just know enough about the sport to talk about teams other than the Red Sox.

As far ad the Yankee injuries, Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson, Alex Rodriguez and Derek Jeter will all be on the DL opening day. That's an $80 million DL payroll.

PapoZalsa · 03-30-2013, 09:16 PM

Haters are going to Hate!!!!

Lemers · 03-31-2013, 02:37 AM

How is stating facts hating?

Roadster4Us · 03-31-2013, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Lemers

How is stating facts hating?

If you are not drooling all over the Yankees, then Papo will accuse you of hating.

Lemers · 03-31-2013, 10:34 AM

When the Yankees don't win the east this year there won't be anything to hate about.

02-23-2013, 08:51 PM	#303 (permalink)
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03-26-2013, 06:29 PM	#306 (permalink)
PapoZalsa A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Not in Sunny Florida Posts: 6,358 Drives: 16 Nismo w/Tech Pack Rep Power: 4500	Few more days, show up now not in Sep/Oct to jump on the Hate Wagon..... __________________ 2009 370Z MB Base w/Sport Package 6MT Modshack's Custom Air Intakes /3M Clear Bra/ Illuminated Kick Plates / F. I CBE w/12" resonators / EVO-R Front Lip / Rear Hatch Wing / Tein S-Tech Springs /Ilegal Tint in the Rep. of VA/4x20mm Z1 Spacers/ Vinyl Roof/Liquid Carbon Designs

03-28-2013, 11:51 PM	#308 (permalink)
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03-30-2013, 09:16 PM	#312 (permalink)
PapoZalsa A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Not in Sunny Florida Posts: 6,358 Drives: 16 Nismo w/Tech Pack Rep Power: 4500	Haters are going to Hate!!!! __________________ 2009 370Z MB Base w/Sport Package 6MT Modshack's Custom Air Intakes /3M Clear Bra/ Illuminated Kick Plates / F. I CBE w/12" resonators / EVO-R Front Lip / Rear Hatch Wing / Tein S-Tech Springs /Ilegal Tint in the Rep. of VA/4x20mm Z1 Spacers/ Vinyl Roof/Liquid Carbon Designs

03-31-2013, 02:37 AM	#313 (permalink)
Lemers A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Izmir, Turkey Posts: 15,371 Drives: 2012 Traverse LTZ Rep Power: 52	How is stating facts hating? __________________ 2010 Black Cherry Touring/Sport/Nav Now - 2012 Travese LTZ until I leave for Turkey

03-26-2013, 07:26 PM	#307 (permalink)
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03-31-2013, 10:34 AM	#315 (permalink)
Lemers A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Izmir, Turkey Posts: 15,371 Drives: 2012 Traverse LTZ Rep Power: 52	When the Yankees don't win the east this year there won't be anything to hate about. __________________ 2010 Black Cherry Touring/Sport/Nav Now - 2012 Travese LTZ until I leave for Turkey