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[donnydarkoIRL]

The draft has always confused me.
Our national sports are decided by region of origin only.

That means there are some very weak teams, but at least there is no poaching or politics.

Ha, that would be crazy. That would really make the Warriors the best of all time And I imagine the Knicks might be good again

But no, our leagues the NBA, MLB and NFL they each have like teams in 30 cities and football drafts anyone they want from College, NBA drafts college athletes and international players and baseball drafts from junior high school it seems now.

Though the MLS is divided in regions but that is just because the teams are actually just neighborhood Sunday day league teams.

So essentially it goes down to money and publicity?

[amat]

The draft has always confused me.
Our national sports are decided by region of origin only.

That means there are some very weak teams, but at least there is no poaching or politics.

Ha, that would be crazy. That would really make the Warriors the best of all time And I imagine the Knicks might be good again

But no, our leagues the NBA, MLB and NFL they each have like teams in 30 cities and football drafts anyone they want from College, NBA drafts college athletes and international players and baseball drafts from junior high school it seems now.

Though the MLS is divided in regions but that is just because the teams are actually just neighborhood Sunday day league teams.

So essentially it goes down to money and publicity?

Um, well when a team cheers for a city. They don't care where those players are from. Yeah that really doesn't mean anything at all to us. White players are a plus in terms of marketing but yeah it doesn't matter where the players themselves are or there is no way Boston wins anything in this country. But you cheer for that city that's on their jersey.

That's just the American way, it's not really a corruption of sport if it was any other way, us capitalist sports fans would have all our fun taken away. It's exciting when your team signs a multi million contract with a Japanese player and then watch how it unfolds. Except when you pay this Japanese pitcher $126 million dollars and his name is Barry Zito and he's not Japanese at all.

I've heard a lot about this 6+5 rule Fifa installed. Yeah, that would never in a million years happen in the NBA, MLB or NFL no way.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Similarly to Premiership soccer in the UK i suppose.
But as you alluded to the best teams will stay at the top becuse of how attractive they are to the top players.

As I mentioned here, you play for your local club, if your good, you go on to represent the county.

You play in your locality, for your town/village or county.

This the saying;

Ask not what your County can do for you;
Ask what you can do for your county.

[amat]

Yes that's why American sports fan can get behind teams like Man U and Chelsea because as I find by studying Lyle, they try to compare these teams to the Red Sox and Yankees baseball team. Lyle loves the Red Sox probably because Reggie Jackson is a crazy left wing terrorist. That's my guess.

But yeah I thought so the Premeirship had free agency.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Yes that's why American sports fan can get behind teams like Man U and Chelsea because as I find by studying Lyle, they try to compare these teams to the Red Sox and Yankees baseball team. Lyle loves the Red Sox probably because Reggie Jackson is a crazy left wing terrorist. That's my guess.

But yeah I thought so the Premeirship had free agency.

Excellent LoL

The Premiership is Shady.
In the past few years so many "bungs" and bribes have emerged it's difficult to reallyt call it a free agency.

Couple that with the fact that the larger clubs have the most money and therefore the best players and its not really fair at all.

When one takes it in persopective its just a testament to the smaller clubs for hanging with em.

[amat]

Doesthe Premeirship have a salary cap? Every major sporting league in the US does with the exception of baseball. Baseball does do some revenue sharing though so the rich help the poor. A few years ago, a shitty little team in Florida called the Marlins beat the Yankees who spend more money then anyone. Because of revenue sharing, the Yankees basically bought the Marlins a world series. Think of it as sports welfare. Dark Lord Al knows all about it he loves it, think it's great that the little guys get a break from the government

But anyways, it works in baseball not just because of that revenue sharing but because each club has several farm league teams who compete and they can call up players from anytime and have exclusive rights to. So the real good teams will not spend half as much money as the big Yankees and Red Sox in Free Agency but instead they can build players in their farm league, sign them for pennies on the dollar of what the huge names get and win with them. That's how baseball makes the free agency work so that this biggest spenders don't always win. I don't know if they have that safeguard in Premiership.

[donnydarkoIRL]

Nope with every big signing it seems to grow and grow, players are on massive salaries now, largely due to huge businessmen investing in the market.

Man, baseball!

I can understand any of the American games but that....I actually like watching it, but not a clue what in the hell is going on!

[wesrman]

Similarly to Premiership soccer in the UK i suppose.
But as you alluded to the best teams will stay at the top becuse of how attractive they are to the top players.

As I mentioned here, you play for your local club, if your good, you go on to represent the county.

You play in your locality, for your town/village or county.

This the saying;

Ask not what your County can do for you;
Ask what you can do for your county.

I wish hockey was like this.