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Originally Posted by djtestudo
New York didn't win all those World Series' before 1973?
Boston didn't make big signings in the years before John Henry?
It's easy to say that there is no issue because New York and Boston have owners willing to spend. It's much smarter to say that they are willing to spend because they have so much money coming in that there is very little risk in spending on players; a bad contract is a nuisance, whereas to most other teams it is an albatross.
(And by the way, do you really want to go with Boston being a smaller market than Dallas? You might want to do some research, preferably on something other than city-limit population.)
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I just went based on population size, not sure what figures go into calculating market size to be honest. Don't people create there own markets anyway?
Is Chicago not bigger than Boston? why can't the cubs or the white soxs spend serious cash? The cubs are not that far behind the redsox's in out of market fans i think. And the redsox nation was only born out of success i believe so why can't another team of similar market share do the same thing? or is NY and Boston the two biggest markets for anything (sports/commerce) in America?
I think the owner is just a big a part as the city you play in. Teams have to earn the fans, do it and your market becomes redsox's nation where you have fans all across the world who have never even been to fenway.
Again I am hardcore Blue jays fan, i just can't begrudge the other teams for spending. I would hate it to be like hockey where everyone is the same, I like rooting against he evil empire!