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**donnydarkoIRL** · 07-02-2008 09:33 AM

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** · 07-02-2008 09:38 AM

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** · 07-02-2008 09:47 AM

Originally Posted by 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.

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** · 07-02-2008 10:03 AM

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** · 07-02-2008 10:06 AM

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!

**amat** · 07-02-2008 10:11 AM

I guess it's the same as me watching Cricket it makes no sense.

Baseball is fairly simple.

A pitcher pitches to a guy who tries to hit the ball between the lines and away from all the defense on the field. Uniforms help. Cricket is just weird though I don't understand such a strange game.

**donnydarkoIRL** · 07-02-2008 10:15 AM

Originally Posted by amat

I guess it's the same as me watching Cricket it makes no sense.

Baseball is fairly simple.

A pitcher pitches to a guy who tries to hit the ball between the lines and away from all the defense on the field. Uniforms help. Cricket is just weird though I don't understand such a strange game.

Cricket too is messed up, although its becoming quite popular here.

For me boxing is my one and only. Although I'll watch other sports (rugby would be a favourite) I rarely have time to follow any of the seasons properly because of training or work.

I'd like to play some basketball again.

**frozensolid_702** · 07-03-2008 12:49 AM

I hear that the Warriors just signed Elton Brand. So it almost evens out depending on how well Brand has recovered from his season ending injury.

**CutMeMick** · 07-02-2008 08:59 PM

I think it's a good addition to the Clips old seasoned vet who can bring this and pass it around to a younger team.

Was really surprised at this...

**wesrman** · 07-02-2008 11:59 AM

Originally Posted by hitmandonny

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.