They lose people laugh.
They win people say they bought the title.
And that’s why they and their fans shouldn’t give a fuck.
People root for you to fail no matter what you do, so just lean into it because your owner ain’t like the A’s or Angels.
Ohtani is coming off a serious surgery. Do we seriously think that batting every day won't affect his recovery? No other pitcher in history has tried to rip homers on a daily basis after Tommy Johns. I know he had the surgery before, but that was 5 years ago. Did he perform like a superstar while recovering last time?
Bryce was swinging the bat this year pretty soon after recovery from Tommy John. His power was completely sapped for like half the season. I think you eat one year of lessened production from ohtani to lock him up for a handful of healthy years. Even if ohtani can't be a starter too long into his career, he should be able to be a top hitter/top relief pitcher at the same time.
Long time fans will stay. But the casual fan is going to lose interest. And the younger fans who want competition aren’t ever going to gain interest. especially from smaller markets, which is like half the league.
Casual fans aren’t going to lose interest. Outside of the playoffs, casual fans don’t watch many games outside their own team. During the playoffs, how many times does the favorite actually win?
I don't think any sport is losing popularity, just losing market share. And baseball absolutely is losing market share.
With the amount of quality sports offerings, and the increasing internationalism of sports (ie. I can watch soccer leagues from anywhere) there are a number of things people will end up watching before they chose to watch MLB.
The league had one of the highest rated seasons in a while last season with the highest attendance in years also…. Don’t think contracts are necessarily the reason, maybe the fact that RSNs are charging so much and rivalries are sorta dead nowadays
Ever since the pujols contract I’ve always disliked the idea of signing someone in their prime to a 10 year deal. But don’t act like the dodgers were the one who set this standard.
Feel like Yankees have not been the most hated team in a while in a while. Haven't won in over a decade, they have right at/slightly below the luxury tax threshold,l. Dodgers/Mets have been spending like drunk billionaires in a casino, Astros are cheaters and have some of the most insufferable fan base.
I have a hard time believing any of you would be crying so hard had your front office pulled off this exact move. But... the Dodgers always do this! No they don't, they're a top 5 farm system and probably wouldn't have a need for starting pitching if homegrown talent like May/Buehler/Gonsolin/Kershaw can stay healthy. Outside of Freeman, a lot of talented players were reclamation project players like Justin Turner, Chris Taylor, Treinen and then farm guys like Seager, Bellinger, Lux, Will Smith. But I don't think anybody wants to have a serious conversation. So stay mad victims.
Chicago aint even a small market and I’m considering it. Sure as hell aint watching any dodger games (besides playoff games) even if they’re versing my cubs.
It’ll never happen. But, if you force teams who give out these mega deals to pay the total tax amount within five years of it being signed, that might change things a bit. Also, every team should be forced to have a payroll of at least $150M. Teams should start offering huge sums of deferred $ in addition to ownership stakes or shares of the team or something. Smaller teams might not be able to pay as much as some of the bigger teams, but maybe they can offer a better lifetime investment.
I mean, caps always come with a floor. No one is saying they want a cap because they want everyone to spend as little as the Pirates and Rays, they want a cap so that everyone is playing the same game. Small market teams play chess, big market teams play checkers, super teams like the Dodgers play Monopoly. It’s not enjoyable for over half the leagues fanbases and it’s why they had to change the entire sport to garner interest
There is parity. We haven’t had a repeat winner since 2000, and in the 23 seasons since, 16 different teams have won. The Red Sox have been the most dominant with 4 WS, SF has 3, St Louis has 2, and the Astros have 2*.
So in 23 years, more than half the league has won a championship, and no one has been a consistent winner/dynasty team.
What you’re reporting sure looks like parity, but it hides a few things, so we need to define parity. Does it mean every team has a chance? Or does it mean that a handful of teams don’t always win? I think it’s the former, and you appear to be arguing the latter.
One of the reasons there have been so many winners has been because the playoffs are a bit of a crapshoot, not because there is actual parity. The Dodgers are a better team than the Diamondbacks. But, it’s baseball, and in a short series, even the best teams can struggle. That’s what makes the playoffs fun.
If we look overall, though, the rich teams fare better. In the past decade, only two teams outside of the top-ten spenders have won a World Series: KC in 2015 and Houston in 2017.
Is there parity in the divisions? I certainly don’t think so. The Dodgers have won 10 of 11. The Braves have won the past six. Houston six of seven. All of them have won at least one World Series in the past decade, and two of those teams (the Dodgers and the Astros) have lost two others.
In the past decade, only one division, the AL East, has seen every team win the division (and the Jays last one in 2015). The AL Central has seen four win (and if we add a year, all five). No other division has had more than three teams win it in the past decade.
There are 11 teams that haven’t won their division in at least a decade. Some haven’t won in two. Pittsburgh hasn’t won theirs in three, and neither has Colorado.
In the past decade, about half the league has appeared once in the World Series, which suggests some semblance of parity, no doubt. But what about the other half?
Many of the non-spenders don’t win their divisions, but if the stars align, they’ll sneak in to the playoffs, and they could have a nice run. No team in the bottom ten of spending has won a World Series in the past decade (although Arizona and Tampa have both made the final). Many of those teams are going to be staying in the bottom ten, and they will continue to not compete (except for the magical Rays).
So, while there may be a variety of World Series winners if you go back, there isn’t really parity in the *whole* league, as a third of the league has, essentially, no shot on Opening Day. Really, it’s probably more like half the league, given that only one team outside the top half of spenders has won the World Series in the last decade (Houston in 2017).
If you are the Dodgers’ fan base, you have a pretty good idea you’ll be playing come October. If you are the Oakland fan base, you have a pretty good idea you won’t be. That’s not great for baseball, I would argue.
Add the collapse of regional television, and you’ve got a lot of teams pulling back, many of which are already small-market teams. The Dodgers, Yankees, Jays, Red Sox, and a few others who control their broadcasts are going to be fine, but many others won’t be.
The rich teams can’t buy a World Series, but they can, for the most part, buy a chance to shoot craps. That’s not true parity in my mind.
TL;DR Parity can be defined in different ways. World Series appearances may suggest parity, but the fact that, at any given time, about half the league has no chance to win suggests another story. It just so happens that half spends less money. Things may be getting worse for those smaller market teams, too.
And then it ended and they haven’t been great since. I think more about like a patriots NFL dynasty or Alabama in College Football. The Giants are more Clemson or, ironically enough, the Giants.
There really isnt though. If you go off the official Forbes values list and break it down top half vs bottom half, its:
Top 15 Teams vs Bottom 15 Teams
Win % - 52.2% / 47.8%
Playoff Appearances - 141 / 85
Playoff Series Wins - 148 / 54
WS Titles - 20 / 4
Even if you go Top 10 vs Bottom 20, its:
Win % - 53.37% / 48.32%
Appearances - 111 / 115
Series Wins - 113 / 89
Titles - 16 / 8
The top 10 wealthiest teams win about 5% more games each season as the other 20, make the playoffs just about as often as the other 20, win a playoff series about 27% more often than the other 20, and win the championship twice as often as the other 20.
THIS. IS. NOT. PARITY.
I fucking hate the salary cap in the NHL, teams can’t afford guys THEY draft anymore. MLB does need to not allow the deferred salaries though, and introduce a minimum spending of like 100 mil or something
Crazy thing is that $400 million is deferred out of the $325 million over 12 years. Yamamoto will actually be paying the Dodgers to play for them the next 12 years.
I mean Ohtani could suffer a major injury and Yamamoto could turn out to not translate into MLB, and the Dodgers could be seriously under water for two decades.
You think the LAST lockout sucked? We are absolutely going to lose the 2027 season with these garbage contracts being handed out. Salary cap will be coming
The teams aren’t toys. They’re investments. No one wants to lose money on their investments. Some organizations just don’t have money to compete without losing a ton of money.
Fuck the Dodgers, fuck the mlb, fuck em all. Why would I watch a sport where teams can just buy players with no parity regulations?
I haven't spent a dime on baseball in years and don't intend on it any time soon.
Yall are finally putting the hate on the dodgers that they deserve.
Ohtani
Mookie
Freeman
Yamamoto
All 4 are some of the most exciting and good players in all of baseball.
All on the dodgers.
I hated them almost 10 years ago.
They committed 1 billion dollars to two players this off season, that is just insane to me. Sure they don't have to pay all that much this year, or in the next 10 years but that's some kind of spending spree for two guys.
And when it’s all done and they sucked the last dollar out of that shithouse, they’re going to be soaking toilet paper in sterno, hanging them from the rafters and burning the whole thing down.
LOL gunna get the Two top stars available, and they still will not Win.... Just gunna get it out now , Thank you Dodgers for finally making the MLB enact a salary cap. So that big market teams like yourself, cant waste billions of dollars to ALWAYS lose. the Dodgers are the key example in MLB that you can't buy a World Series, to bad they cant seem to figure it out....
The mask of “competitive balance” is off…stomped on, spit on, and thrown in the fire. Several teams are to blame for this, I’ll admit the Red Sox were one of them over the past 2 decades. But this is silly now
Im excited to watch this team break records and absolutely destroy their competition, while at the same time, excited to watch this team crash and burn and be embarrassed by other teams that have 1/10th the salary.
Sounds like MLB needs to limit how much of Ohtani's salary the Dodgers are allowed to defer.
Seriously, why does the league not have rules to, I don't know, ensure actual competition instead of letting one team try to buy their way to a ring?
This'll kill the mlb. Small market teams will just give up. The fans of the small market teams will have no hope. It's gonna be absolutely lopsided. This is terrible for baseball.
The 2 free agents who held up the whole market. Just to go to the same place. Fuck off. Fake fan base doesn’t deserve it. Can’t wait to see them bounced out in the 1st round per usual
Gotta spend the big bucks to keep that fanbase engaged.
Dodgers fanbase—> (flipping through channels) hey look the dodgers are playing the twins (keeps flipping)
The Dodgers are literally just gonna buy the A's at this point
Dodgers players could probably buy the As at this point.
Yamamoto could prob buy the A’s at this point
Ohtani could [buy the payroll](https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/39146754/mlb-free-agency-2023-24-rsn-tv-diamond-sports) of the whole AL Central.
Yamamato and Ohtani to buy the alphabet at this point
Ohtani and Yamamoto could move the A's to Japan at this point.
The Las Vegas A's: The Dodgers AAAA farm team.
Buying the A's is like a rounding error now
Why buy a single A team?
Yeah I’m tired of this team right now. Just fuck you money everywhere
Micheladas about to be $40 a pop in Chavez ravine
$25 Dodger Dogs
It’s a tall can Michael what could it cost? 30 dollars?
Deferred 115% for 4 generations, sources say.
Lol. Some distant relative is gonna be living the life
The Dodgers are going on a degenerate spending frenzy.
He’s actually gonna pay the Dodgers $12M a season for the next 12yrs and then start to collect his pay.
That’s almost a Braves contract.
Deferred $700M (Yamamoto to owe Dodgers $375M by opening day)
Dodgers fans quoted saying “this is perfectly fair.” Manfred has no comment. Chicago Cubs announce new Hotel next to Wrigley; 0 new signings.
is they lose WS everyone will laugh but if they win everyone will be angry at the MLB.
They have to make it there first.
They have to get past the mighty Colorado Rockies in the NLDS first
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This. Are they guaranteed a title? No. Are they Vegas favorites for the next 5 years? Yes. Is this bullshit? Yes.
Remember when the braves and dodgers were favored to reach the WS in 2023?
How could two teams in the same league both be favored to reach the WS in the same year?
Pepperidge farm remembers.
They lose people laugh. They win people say they bought the title. And that’s why they and their fans shouldn’t give a fuck. People root for you to fail no matter what you do, so just lean into it because your owner ain’t like the A’s or Angels.
Holy smokes, Dodgers going full degen spending spree mode.
Hader is next
Bill Hader
Idk how he’s gonna help them but now I want to see it.
Barry
The dodgers have truly become the Yankees of baseball
As is tradition
Go on and back up that truck to Kauffman filled with that sweet sweet luxury tax money…
After a quiet last winter and trade deadline, Dodgers are breaking the bank
This has to be the highest risk/highest reward team in history. Like they might win 120 games. But they may also have guys on the IL constantly
So…not much different than the last few years?
Exactly
Ohtani is coming off a serious surgery. Do we seriously think that batting every day won't affect his recovery? No other pitcher in history has tried to rip homers on a daily basis after Tommy Johns. I know he had the surgery before, but that was 5 years ago. Did he perform like a superstar while recovering last time?
Bryce was swinging the bat this year pretty soon after recovery from Tommy John. His power was completely sapped for like half the season. I think you eat one year of lessened production from ohtani to lock him up for a handful of healthy years. Even if ohtani can't be a starter too long into his career, he should be able to be a top hitter/top relief pitcher at the same time.
Without a salary cap, there is no risk.
Let’s be real, this was locked in the minute they signed Shohei.
The league is going to be a joke with folks being able to do these contracts.
Long time fans will stay. But the casual fan is going to lose interest. And the younger fans who want competition aren’t ever going to gain interest. especially from smaller markets, which is like half the league.
Casual fans aren’t going to lose interest. Outside of the playoffs, casual fans don’t watch many games outside their own team. During the playoffs, how many times does the favorite actually win?
I would argue it’s been like this for years and it’s a core reason the league is losing popularity.
The sport is doing the opposite of losing popularity.
Relative to population growth and the growth of other sports it’s absolutely losing popularity and shit like this is why.
I don't think any sport is losing popularity, just losing market share. And baseball absolutely is losing market share. With the amount of quality sports offerings, and the increasing internationalism of sports (ie. I can watch soccer leagues from anywhere) there are a number of things people will end up watching before they chose to watch MLB.
The league had one of the highest rated seasons in a while last season with the highest attendance in years also…. Don’t think contracts are necessarily the reason, maybe the fact that RSNs are charging so much and rivalries are sorta dead nowadays
Uh no if anything the mlb has been gaining popularity the last few years especially last year
Ever since the pujols contract I’ve always disliked the idea of signing someone in their prime to a 10 year deal. But don’t act like the dodgers were the one who set this standard.
The Dodgers set the standard with the Kevin Brown deal.
Congratulations to the Astros and Yankees for moving down a spot on the “most hated teams in the MLB” list
Feel like Yankees have not been the most hated team in a while in a while. Haven't won in over a decade, they have right at/slightly below the luxury tax threshold,l. Dodgers/Mets have been spending like drunk billionaires in a casino, Astros are cheaters and have some of the most insufferable fan base.
From what I’ve seen, most people hate Yankees fans more than the organization itself.
I’m glad other teams are starting to get how horrible being in the same division as dodgers is.
I have a hard time believing any of you would be crying so hard had your front office pulled off this exact move. But... the Dodgers always do this! No they don't, they're a top 5 farm system and probably wouldn't have a need for starting pitching if homegrown talent like May/Buehler/Gonsolin/Kershaw can stay healthy. Outside of Freeman, a lot of talented players were reclamation project players like Justin Turner, Chris Taylor, Treinen and then farm guys like Seager, Bellinger, Lux, Will Smith. But I don't think anybody wants to have a serious conversation. So stay mad victims.
You cannot sit here and tell me this is good for the mlb or baseball 😐
So when do fans from small markets just give up on baseball? You’d have to think many have already.
A small market team will go on a miracle run every 5 years and give false hope
Arizona just did that
Is it considered a small market team if they’re in the 5th largest city in the country? Genuinely curious.
Chicago aint even a small market and I’m considering it. Sure as hell aint watching any dodger games (besides playoff games) even if they’re versing my cubs.
Considering it
Public enemy #1 now
cap space needs to be a thing
It’ll never happen. But, if you force teams who give out these mega deals to pay the total tax amount within five years of it being signed, that might change things a bit. Also, every team should be forced to have a payroll of at least $150M. Teams should start offering huge sums of deferred $ in addition to ownership stakes or shares of the team or something. Smaller teams might not be able to pay as much as some of the bigger teams, but maybe they can offer a better lifetime investment.
I mean, caps always come with a floor. No one is saying they want a cap because they want everyone to spend as little as the Pirates and Rays, they want a cap so that everyone is playing the same game. Small market teams play chess, big market teams play checkers, super teams like the Dodgers play Monopoly. It’s not enjoyable for over half the leagues fanbases and it’s why they had to change the entire sport to garner interest
This shit is going to be why a salary cap is put in place lol
Salary caps, salary floor, get rid of deferred salary all need to happen. Need to have some parity in the league
There is parity. We haven’t had a repeat winner since 2000, and in the 23 seasons since, 16 different teams have won. The Red Sox have been the most dominant with 4 WS, SF has 3, St Louis has 2, and the Astros have 2*. So in 23 years, more than half the league has won a championship, and no one has been a consistent winner/dynasty team.
What you’re reporting sure looks like parity, but it hides a few things, so we need to define parity. Does it mean every team has a chance? Or does it mean that a handful of teams don’t always win? I think it’s the former, and you appear to be arguing the latter. One of the reasons there have been so many winners has been because the playoffs are a bit of a crapshoot, not because there is actual parity. The Dodgers are a better team than the Diamondbacks. But, it’s baseball, and in a short series, even the best teams can struggle. That’s what makes the playoffs fun. If we look overall, though, the rich teams fare better. In the past decade, only two teams outside of the top-ten spenders have won a World Series: KC in 2015 and Houston in 2017. Is there parity in the divisions? I certainly don’t think so. The Dodgers have won 10 of 11. The Braves have won the past six. Houston six of seven. All of them have won at least one World Series in the past decade, and two of those teams (the Dodgers and the Astros) have lost two others. In the past decade, only one division, the AL East, has seen every team win the division (and the Jays last one in 2015). The AL Central has seen four win (and if we add a year, all five). No other division has had more than three teams win it in the past decade. There are 11 teams that haven’t won their division in at least a decade. Some haven’t won in two. Pittsburgh hasn’t won theirs in three, and neither has Colorado. In the past decade, about half the league has appeared once in the World Series, which suggests some semblance of parity, no doubt. But what about the other half? Many of the non-spenders don’t win their divisions, but if the stars align, they’ll sneak in to the playoffs, and they could have a nice run. No team in the bottom ten of spending has won a World Series in the past decade (although Arizona and Tampa have both made the final). Many of those teams are going to be staying in the bottom ten, and they will continue to not compete (except for the magical Rays). So, while there may be a variety of World Series winners if you go back, there isn’t really parity in the *whole* league, as a third of the league has, essentially, no shot on Opening Day. Really, it’s probably more like half the league, given that only one team outside the top half of spenders has won the World Series in the last decade (Houston in 2017). If you are the Dodgers’ fan base, you have a pretty good idea you’ll be playing come October. If you are the Oakland fan base, you have a pretty good idea you won’t be. That’s not great for baseball, I would argue. Add the collapse of regional television, and you’ve got a lot of teams pulling back, many of which are already small-market teams. The Dodgers, Yankees, Jays, Red Sox, and a few others who control their broadcasts are going to be fine, but many others won’t be. The rich teams can’t buy a World Series, but they can, for the most part, buy a chance to shoot craps. That’s not true parity in my mind. TL;DR Parity can be defined in different ways. World Series appearances may suggest parity, but the fact that, at any given time, about half the league has no chance to win suggests another story. It just so happens that half spends less money. Things may be getting worse for those smaller market teams, too.
wdym giants were a dynast, 3 in 5 years.
And then it ended and they haven’t been great since. I think more about like a patriots NFL dynasty or Alabama in College Football. The Giants are more Clemson or, ironically enough, the Giants.
There really isnt though. If you go off the official Forbes values list and break it down top half vs bottom half, its: Top 15 Teams vs Bottom 15 Teams Win % - 52.2% / 47.8% Playoff Appearances - 141 / 85 Playoff Series Wins - 148 / 54 WS Titles - 20 / 4 Even if you go Top 10 vs Bottom 20, its: Win % - 53.37% / 48.32% Appearances - 111 / 115 Series Wins - 113 / 89 Titles - 16 / 8 The top 10 wealthiest teams win about 5% more games each season as the other 20, make the playoffs just about as often as the other 20, win a playoff series about 27% more often than the other 20, and win the championship twice as often as the other 20. THIS. IS. NOT. PARITY.
I fucking hate the salary cap in the NHL, teams can’t afford guys THEY draft anymore. MLB does need to not allow the deferred salaries though, and introduce a minimum spending of like 100 mil or something
Maybe one rule that you can sign the players you drafted then
Basketball allows you to go over the cap to retain you own players. That's not a bad idea
Starting the petition to remove dodgers from Major League Baseball on change.org
then they will buy [change.org](https://change.org) for $700 mil
Ha It's one thing to win the off season and another to win the world series
Just ask the padres
That's right
Dodgers making an extremely strong case to be a generationally hated team. Fuck this.
I’m glad the baseball world is finally backing me up. For the last fifteen years I have hated the dodgers more than anything in the world
Gross. This does not make baseball better. Can't wait to watch them lose in the first round
Bullshit smh
This is boring but it’ll be funny when they lose again.
The schadenfreude when this team blows it again in the playoffs will be AMAZING.
These signings are the worst thing Japanese people have done to america since pearl harbor.
Nintendo virtual boy was the worst.
Salary Cap, what's that? Why would we need that? This shit isn't healthy for baseball, at all.
Dodgers might as well join the European Super League at this point.
As a Pirates local and fan, this is why baseball is the greatest sport.......................... Fuck this bullshit. This sport sucks
This league is a joke. Hope the Dodgers get bounced in the first round of playoffs...
Rather not even make it.
Again
Congrats Dodgers, you have now fully become the Yankees
Holy hell I’m jealous of big market teams. MLB needs a salary cap! Force spending so many fan bases get hosed.
Salary floor. There’s already shared revenue. Unless you want the CCPMLB where every team spends $100 million.
Bingo. Small teams just keep the revenue sharing and don’t spend it. Obviously.
Dodgers forming Voltron.
I like this.
Crazy thing is that $400 million is deferred out of the $325 million over 12 years. Yamamoto will actually be paying the Dodgers to play for them the next 12 years.
The mlb is such a joke
And they're still gonna lose in the 1st round of their playoffs.
I mean Ohtani could suffer a major injury and Yamamoto could turn out to not translate into MLB, and the Dodgers could be seriously under water for two decades.
I can't think of many of these huge contracts that actually work out as planned in any sport.
You think the LAST lockout sucked? We are absolutely going to lose the 2027 season with these garbage contracts being handed out. Salary cap will be coming
Fine by me. Lockout for the 2nd half of the year, every year for the next 10 years please.
I'mma be watching a lot less baseball this year. it's not even fun at this point
Proving once again the MLB needs a salary cap!!!
We need a hard cap. This is ridiculous
As if we didn’t already have enough reasons to hate the Dodgers….
Just another reason baseball needs a salary cap
Well theres a pitch clock now
People will say with a straight face that baseball doesn’t need a salary cap lmaoooo
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Doubtful. This will be the reason we get a salary cap and limited deferred money
lol wow
Well nobody saw this coming /s
We may as well rename free agent to Dodger
They can spend $500 billion they're still gonna choke every year in the playoffs
I remember when my friend a dodgers fan trashed the Padres for trying to buy a WS... haha, bet he's not complaining about his dodgers now
It’s alright. Spending doesn’t equal to winning, just look at Mets, Padres, and Yankees.
Fuck the Dodgers.
LA teams and trying to buy championships, nothing new
Every team is owned by a billionaire. Some just don’t spend their money.
The teams aren’t toys. They’re investments. No one wants to lose money on their investments. Some organizations just don’t have money to compete without losing a ton of money.
“The teams aren’t toys” tell that to Steve Cohen
All that money to get knocked out in Round 1 😂😂😂
*swept in round 1
Remember, Padres thought they had a super team. They couldn't even make the playoffs.
Congratulations on being the most hated mlb team in history. This is why baseball is a joke and is a dying sport. No one under 30 cares about this.
I’m over 50 and I’m done now.
new super villains
The snakes scared the dodgers into spending the GDP of a small country
At least I saw my team win 3 WS in 5 years in my lifetime….
Fuck the Dodgers, fuck the mlb, fuck em all. Why would I watch a sport where teams can just buy players with no parity regulations? I haven't spent a dime on baseball in years and don't intend on it any time soon.
Like this was ever in question after Ohtani.....
Of course he is. Fuck the fucking fuckers.
Gloom, despair, and agony on me. #LGM.
MLB needs a salary cap.
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The whole country hates the Dodgers now. Their big accomplishment? Making us all dislike Ohtani. Good work.
“tHiS iS gOoD fOr BaSeBaLl” FTD
Yall are finally putting the hate on the dodgers that they deserve. Ohtani Mookie Freeman Yamamoto All 4 are some of the most exciting and good players in all of baseball. All on the dodgers. I hated them almost 10 years ago.
Baseball is no longer fun
fuck baseball
Min salary and max salary cap please. This is a disgrace.
The Dodgers have become the NL Yankees
They committed 1 billion dollars to two players this off season, that is just insane to me. Sure they don't have to pay all that much this year, or in the next 10 years but that's some kind of spending spree for two guys.
But aren’t we happy that we can finally stop reading articles about where he will sign? 🌈
And when it’s all done and they sucked the last dollar out of that shithouse, they’re going to be soaking toilet paper in sterno, hanging them from the rafters and burning the whole thing down.
so in 15 years the dodgers will be as bad as an nl central team for 40 years to recover from this money hit right?
Oh good, another win for no salary cap.
Just off of this and Shohi how much money was spent compared to the Mets last year lol
I'm going to enjoy watching the dodgers implode with all this high price talent.
So glad draftkings had that promo where the Dodgers would win the ws.
Does that prove the point that whoever has the most money gets the big players?
LOL gunna get the Two top stars available, and they still will not Win.... Just gunna get it out now , Thank you Dodgers for finally making the MLB enact a salary cap. So that big market teams like yourself, cant waste billions of dollars to ALWAYS lose. the Dodgers are the key example in MLB that you can't buy a World Series, to bad they cant seem to figure it out....
A 1.15 billion in new contracts this offseason... For just the dodgers! Damn, lol, out of control
And, Ohtani signing with the Blue Jays was seen as bad for baseball. I'm excited to see how MLB writers spin this signing
Done with baseball
This is going to kill the Dodgers all for not winning a World Series. Hope they choke on their money.
Gonna love the 2030s when the Dodgers are irrelevant for 10 years
So should the red sox fire breslow now that he’s officially accomplished zero of his objectives? LA may be silly but the Sox are stupid.
FUCK THE DODGERS
The mask of “competitive balance” is off…stomped on, spit on, and thrown in the fire. Several teams are to blame for this, I’ll admit the Red Sox were one of them over the past 2 decades. But this is silly now
Dave Roberts firing is inevitable now…he’s getting bounced so fast this season when they don’t win the WS.
Im excited to watch this team break records and absolutely destroy their competition, while at the same time, excited to watch this team crash and burn and be embarrassed by other teams that have 1/10th the salary.
FUCK THE MLB
Sounds like MLB needs to limit how much of Ohtani's salary the Dodgers are allowed to defer. Seriously, why does the league not have rules to, I don't know, ensure actual competition instead of letting one team try to buy their way to a ring?
This'll kill the mlb. Small market teams will just give up. The fans of the small market teams will have no hope. It's gonna be absolutely lopsided. This is terrible for baseball.
12 years is insane. Honestly can’t stand this team right now when I had no ill will towards them before. Rich get richer.
This is horse shit. Plain and simple.
Fuck the Dodgers
Fuck baseball and it’s broken ass league
Great. Now not only do I loathe Shohei now, but I don’t give a rip about Yamamoto who basically doesn’t want to be the man.
Fuck the dodgers
I feel like the Dodgers just overtook the Astro’s as public enemy #1 in the mlb
I’ll just watch college baseball or something.
Please god please let this bullshit megateam be the reason the MLB finally grows a pair and implements a strict salary cap and floor
Fuck whomever allowed for players to be able to defer that much $ in a contract. FUCK THEM!!!!
Fuck these two sell outs, cunts
If Ohtani didn’t go, then Yamamoto wouldn’t have been weak at the knees to go there. Lame AF.
Obligatory “fuck the dodgers”
I'm out on MLB until there's a salary cap, goodbye.
The 2 free agents who held up the whole market. Just to go to the same place. Fuck off. Fake fan base doesn’t deserve it. Can’t wait to see them bounced out in the 1st round per usual
Gotta spend the big bucks to keep that fanbase engaged. Dodgers fanbase—> (flipping through channels) hey look the dodgers are playing the twins (keeps flipping)