pan6467

It's funny, the leader of "Screw the Yankees and screw the curse..... I hate the Yankees... I'm going to grow long hair and a beard and look like a street urchin and that is the way I'll play...." Goes to where the money is, and it's to the Yankees. I guess even his attitude of the hair, and his "look" had a price.

How pathetic baseball has become, the rivalries truly mean nothing anymore.

Plus, what this shows is that a few teams will go out and get whatever FA they want spend as much as they want and the rest of baseball gets leftovers. Pretty soon the all star players will just go from Boston to NYY to maybe the Cubs and Dodgers and that'll be it.

Clemens, Wells, Boggs, and so on they have all done it.

To be quite honest I love baseball but F/A is destroying any love and interest I have in the game. I'm getting tired of it and it just isn't fun anymore when you know the players aren't going to be loyal to the teams, the cities or the fans anymore.

It'd be like Charlie Frye leaving the Browns to play for the Steelers. He grew up hating the Steelers, knows the rivalry, hates the Steelers and has stated the only way he'd ever be a Steeler was if they were the only team in the NFL that would allow him to play. He said the first thing he did when the Browns drafted him was erase Roethlisburger's phone # from his cell.

Granted some of that is just talk, but that's what fans want to believe. Baseball has gotten to the point where the fans know the players are just rentals and will go to the most hated rival for a few dollars more and it means nothing to them.

With the cap and the "franchise player rule", I seriously doubt Frye will ever be a Steeler (if he is the real thing.... and I truly think he is going to be).

The great thing about the NFL and NBA with their caps is that you know every team has the same oppurtunity to get that marquee player, and most of the biggest stars stay with the same team.... unless they have attitude problems or issues that get them elsewhere (T.O.).

I doubt very much you'll see Lebron going to the Bulls or the Lakers or any of the NY teams, because the Cavs will "Larry Bird" him.

Baseball has become a sad parody of itself, and without the rivalries, it eventually will become meaningless.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"