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Mustached Demon posted:I'm ok with just taking the L on my team not paying $700,000,000. The Gugenheim Group that owns the Dodgers control more than $300 billion in assets, Ohtani's contract is a drop in the bucket.
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R.D. Mangles posted:btw, there is no salary cap in major league baseball On a totally unrelated note, Shohei just signed for 50% more money than LeBron James has been paid in his career
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Dec 9, 2023 23:18
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Now that he officially signed I can say it: Ohtani is underpaid
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Dec 9, 2023 23:19
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holy poo poo that's absolutely disgusting
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Craptacular! posted:If a team makes $300m a year, they aren't going to invest $280m++ in player salaries. Why do some sports fans seem to think that every billionaire should be Howard Hughes levels of crazy and run the club as a revenue negative operation just so they can flash a giant ring at the country club. I don't know for certain, but I don't think even Ted Turner did that. Because having that amount of money without at the very least doing something cool with it should get you gunned down in the street.
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Craptacular! posted:If a team makes $300m a year, they aren't going to invest $280m++ in player salaries. Why do some sports fans seem to think that every billionaire should be Howard Hughes levels of crazy and run the club as a revenue negative operation just so they can flash a giant ring at the country club. I don't know for certain, but I don't think even Ted Turner did that. Also because that is what sports teams are: toys that billionaires can use to flex on their billionaire friends
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Dec 9, 2023 23:21
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ohtani is not worth 700 million dollars sorry baseball players are comically overpaid to begin with but that's a truly sickening amount of money
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Dec 9, 2023 23:22
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Well, that sucks the Jays didn't get Ohtani, so I guess they'll just have to settle for the second-best dual hitter/pitcher in free agency this year.
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Every version of “wow $700M is too much I’m glad my team didn’t get him” is predictable cope. But it is ok, as Ohtani’s new best friend I have been deputized to forgive all of you for these transgressions against Our Perfect Boy Shohei. He understands that this is part of your grieving process, and in his infinite compassion he will welcome you back into the fold once you are ready.
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Dec 9, 2023 23:27
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mods please update the thread title to The 700 Million Dollar Man (RIP Wallet)
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Ohtani is the biggest star in Japan and brings a massive amount of coverage with him, sells a gently caress ton of merchandise, and produces at the highest level on the field. Japan is going to be hugely focused on the Dodgers now which is something they did not have before
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bawfuls posted:because the franchise value appreciates so fast they can still make money running at annual net negative Also, owners have some other huge-rear end multi-billion dollar company that they own alongside the team, people who act like the team owners can't possibly afford to have low/no margins on the MLB side (even ignoring the more than ample cushion those owners have for losing some money) are just carrying water.
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triple sulk posted:ohtani is not worth 700 million dollars sorry why is it a sickening amount of money for ohtani to get and not the people who have enough money to pay him to have
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Nodoze posted:Ohtani is the biggest star in Japan and brings a massive amount of coverage with him, sells a gently caress ton of merchandise, and produces at the highest level on the field. Japan is going to be hugely focused on the Dodgers now which is something they did not have before 
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IcePhoenix posted:mods please update the thread title to The 700 Million Dollar Man (RIP Wallet)
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Baseball players aren't overpaid, other sports are underpaid
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Nodoze posted:Ohtani is the biggest star in Japan and brings a massive amount of coverage with him, sells a gently caress ton of merchandise, and produces at the highest level on the field. Japan is going to be hugely focused on the Dodgers now which is something they did not have before Actually I wouldn't be surprised if he went Dodgers over some other crazy offer because of what it means for his following (the writers from Japan, fans who want to travel across the world, etc). LA and OC are pretty much the same place if your perspective is someone coming from as far away as Japan, since you're arriving at LAX either way.
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now it's official https://x.com/MagicJohnson/status/1733600505182773539?s=20 https://x.com/MagicJohnson/status/1733600601177731435?s=20 R.D. Mangles fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Dec 9, 2023 |
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Just caught up, why didn't anyone think to monitor the flights from Anaheim to Los Angeles?!
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Kirios posted:As someone whose team never had a chance to sign Shohei this entire saga has been highly entertaining. 
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Just saw the news and :goddamn: Though it’ll be hilarious* when he still can’t get a ring with the Dodgers. * but also sad
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Nodoze posted:Baseball players aren't overpaid, other sports are underpaid There are NBA players no one has ever heard of who make like 22 million a year.
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Dec 9, 2023 23:52
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$700 million is a lot of money. I would like to have it.
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feels bad to have to root against Ohtani but he signed with Evil Empire West so Glad he got the bag though, good for him
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triple sulk posted:ohtani is not worth 700 million dollars sorry If the owners make a dime, the players are not overpaid.
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fast cars loose anus posted:feels bad to have to root against Ohtani but he signed with Evil Empire West so Yep, he deserves every cent. But now I have to hope he never does see the World Series
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mcmagic posted:There are NBA players no one has ever heard of who make like 22 million a year. Often for only a few minutes of gametime. NHL is in a weirder spot because for many years they had to compete against a league run by Russian oligarchs who often outbid the NHL on raw dollar value.
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mcmagic posted:There are NBA players no one has ever heard of who make like 22 million a year.
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Teddybear posted:This isn't the WORST team he could've signed with, objectively, but it's definitely among the least fun. Yeah, definitely could be worse but it's also just so... predictable
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Craptacular! posted:Actually I wouldn't be surprised if he went Dodgers over some other crazy offer because of what it means for his following (the writers from Japan, fans who want to travel across the world, etc). LA and OC are pretty much the same place if your perspective is someone coming from as far away as Japan, since you're arriving at LAX either way. We’ll see what comes out, but I doubt anyone else was trying to throw that much at him. I do think him going to the Dodgers is mutually beneficial. Being in that prime West Coast location and just being LA will give them a lot of opportunity to capitalize on marketing and merch that somewhere like Atlanta wouldn’t be able to capitalize on to the same extent. Anyone could make money off him, but I do think the Dodgers are uniquely positioned to really make a killing.
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https://twitter.com/SamBlum3/status/1733621553492021432
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:It’s not your money. Dodger Dogs are going to cost $30 next year.
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700 mil/10 years would be too much for Jesus Christ, even if Jesus Christ was the best baseball player in the world, and He lands you a bigger fanbase than Japan.
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R.D. Mangles posted:it's not my money, there exists no amount of money that the cubs could pay a baseball player where i would not be upset that the player had it instead of the ricketts family 100% Even if the Cubs signed Ohtani and he never was as good as he has been (he will be) I would be happy they went for it just to give us fans the joy of seeing that man play for our team. If you wanna get mad about athletes getting paid, take a look at whose paying them in the first place.
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live with fruit posted:Dodger Dogs are going to cost $30 next year. The secret is: They would cost that much even if the Dodgers paid $70 million for their entire 26-man roster I went to a Nationals game this year, an organization that is in the process of stripping everything down to the studs, and poo poo wasn’t cheap. They’re not passing the savings on to you
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live with fruit posted:Dodger Dogs are going to cost $30 next year.
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bawfuls posted:this is owner propaganda "My billionaire owner is better than yours" is owner propaganda.
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live with fruit posted:"My billionaire owner is better than yours" is owner propaganda. That’s why I’m glad when more of their money ends up in the pocket of baseball players
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bawfuls posted:They’re all poo poo Player, singular. And Ohtani's getting this because they can slap his face on a bunch of poo poo at an unprecedented scale. It's all poo poo.
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