St. Louis Cardinals host Los Angeles Dodgers
No Rays, Marlins, Rockies, Diamondbacks. None of that goofy stuff. Just real baseball names from real baseball towns.
The Major Baseball League (MBL) received a lot of attention because of the extra wild card team introduced in 2012. My thinking all along has been that it would reduce the chances of the one wild card team that made it to the best of five first round and enhance the chances of the top team in each conference, the team with the best record. That happened this season.
I'm pretty sure that MBL commissioner Allen Huber "Bud" Selig never considered that possibility.
Let's look at the 30 MBL teams in order of estimated payroll.
| Tm | Attendance | Attend/G | BatAge | PitchAge | BPF | PPF | #HOF | #A-S | #a-tA-S | Managers | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAD | 3,743,527 | 46,216 | 30.5 | 28.1 | 95 | 95 | 0 | 1 | 17 | $254,161,000 | Mattingly |
| NYY | 3,279,589 | 40,489 | 31.8 | 31.8 | 102 | 101 | 0 | 2 | 14 | $246,044,750 | Girardi |
| BOS | 2,833,333 | 34,979 | 29.7 | 30.2 | 102 | 102 | 0 | 3 | 13 | $177,930,500 | Farrell |
| DET | 3,083,397 | 38,067 | 29.9 | 28.4 | 106 | 105 | 0 | 6 | 10 | $154,407,000 | Leyland |
| PHI | 3,012,403 | 37,190 | 30.0 | 28.7 | 101 | 102 | 0 | 2 | 10 | $150,860,000 | Manuel and Sandberg |
| SFG | 3,369,106 | 41,087 | 28.7 | 29.6 | 90 | 89 | 0 | 4 | 10 | $139,845,667 | Bochy |
| TEX | 3,178,273 | 38,759 | 29.5 | 27.9 | 104 | 103 | 0 | 3 | 15 | $138,281,200 | Washington |
| TOR | 2,536,562 | 31,316 | 29.1 | 30.9 | 102 | 102 | 0 | 4 | 10 | $124,517,800 | Gibbons |
| LAA | 3,019,505 | 37,278 | 27.8 | 29.1 | 94 | 94 | 0 | 1 | 8 | $116,032,500 | Scioscia |
| STL | 3,369,769 | 41,602 | 28.7 | 26.9 | 99 | 97 | 0 | 6 | 11 | $112,583,000 | Matheny |
| WSN | 2,652,422 | 32,746 | 27.7 | 27.7 | 102 | 101 | 0 | 2 | 11 | $112,493,250 | Johnson |
| CIN | 2,492,059 | 31,151 | 28.5 | 27.7 | 103 | 102 | 0 | 3 | 9 | $106,255,535 | Baker |
| BAL | 2,357,551 | 29,106 | 27.8 | 27.9 | 106 | 105 | 0 | 5 | 12 | $100,832,000 | Showalter |
| PIT | 2,256,862 | 27,862 | 27.9 | 28.7 | 94 | 94 | 0 | 5 | 13 | $96,205,000 | Hurdle |
| ATL | 2,548,679 | 31,465 | 26.8 | 27.2 | 104 | 103 | 0 | 3 | 9 | $95,618,750 | Gonzalez |
| KCR | 1,750,754 | 21,614 | 27.0 | 28.9 | 103 | 103 | 0 | 3 | 9 | $87,426,250 | Yost |
| CLE | 1,572,926 | 19,419 | 28.6 | 27.5 | 93 | 94 | 0 | 2 | 9 | $87,342,433 | Francona |
| MIL | 2,531,105 | 31,248 | 27.9 | 28.8 | 105 | 105 | 0 | 2 | 8 | $86,455,000 | Roenicke |
| CHW | 1,768,413 | 21,832 | 29.2 | 27.1 | 107 | 107 | 0 | 2 | 7 | $81,401,900 | Ventura |
| ARI | 2,134,795 | 26,355 | 28.1 | 27.6 | 102 | 102 | 0 | 2 | 9 | $80,060,500 | Gibson |
| SEA | 1,761,546 | 21,747 | 28.5 | 28.0 | 92 | 92 | 0 | 2 | 5 | $78,887,000 | Wedge |
| COL | 2,793,828 | 34,492 | 27.7 | 28.3 | 117 | 118 | 0 | 3 | 6 | $73,768,000 | Weiss |
| TBR | 1,510,300 | 18,646 | 29.6 | 29.0 | 96 | 95 | 0 | 2 | 7 | $71,163,500 | Maddon |
| OAK | 1,809,302 | 22,337 | 28.3 | 28.3 | 95 | 93 | 0 | 2 | 5 | $69,440,000 | Melvin |
| NYM | 2,135,657 | 26,366 | 28.3 | 29.1 | 94 | 95 | 0 | 2 | 4 | $69,059,860 | Collins |
| SDP | 2,166,691 | 26,749 | 28.1 | 28.8 | 91 | 91 | 0 | 1 | 5 | $64,463,600 | Black |
| MIN | 2,477,644 | 30,588 | 28.3 | 28.3 | 99 | 101 | 0 | 2 | 4 | $63,042,500 | Gardenhire |
| CHC | 2,642,682 | 32,626 | 27.9 | 28.7 | 104 | 105 | 0 | 1 | 6 | $61,647,500 | Sveum |
| MIA | 1,586,322 | 19,584 | 27.7 | 26.0 | 102 | 103 | 0 | 1 | 3 | $24,761,900 | Redmond |
| HOU | 1,651,883 | 20,394 | 26.0 | 27.2 | 99 | 101 | 0 | 1 | 3 | $14,672,300 | Porter |
Top four:
Los Angeles Dodgers
New York Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Detroit Tigers
St. Louis Cardinals are number 11 among the 30 teams.
Other tournament teams:
13, Cincinnati
15. Pittsburgh
16. Atlanta
18. Cleveland
23. Tampa
24. Oakland
Houston had the worst record and the lowest payroll. 14 of the 30 teams spent at least $100 million and the Dodgers and Yankees well over $200 million.
The traditional teams play in the big league cities, the ones currently called big markets. The Rays and Marlins of the MBL world play in minor league places, euphemistically called small markets. These newer teams were added in smaller, newer cities. Where else could they go?
Thursday, October 3, 2013 Small markets: isn't that the minor leagues?
Pittsburgh fans looked orgasmic the other night watching their Pirates defeat Cincinnati in the National Conference wild card play-in game. Forty-thousand Pittsburgh faithful watched in person. So where were they during the regular season?
Out of 15 National Conference (NC) teams Cincinnati ranked 10th in attendance, Pittsburgh 11th. What the heck? That's success? At least it's not as embarrassing as the attendance ranks of the American Conference (AC) teams in last night's do-or-die play-in game in Cleveland: Tampa last, Cleveland second to last. Even Houston in its first season in the AC was higher despite 111 losses and only one sellout, the final game against ... the Yankees...
The objective of the MBL is to have as many people for as long as possible think (hope) that their team can win. It's largely a sucker game...
I don't see how anyone can characterize the system a success when the two teams, Cleveland and Tampa, in last night's game were dead last in attendance. Can you? Maybe their fans realize that their teams are mediocre and not likely to defeat the one seed in the upcoming five game series. Maybe those fans are not such suckers after all.
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Pittsburgh: 15 in payroll, 19 in attendance
Cincinnati: 13 in payroll, 16 in attendance
Looks like the fans in these cities got what they deserved: teams on the bubble that probably cannot sustain a high enough level of play as reflected in team payroll to consistently contend for a good spot in the tournament.
Cleveland: 18 in payroll, 29 in attendance
Tampa: 23 in payroll, 30 in attendance
As much as mainstream media types like to tweak the Yankees, but not the Dodgers so much, for buying championships and laud Tampa especially, it looks like the Tampa Rays did not even get their money's worth for the little they spent. The Dodgers have a 50-50 chance of making the finals.
And what of Oakland, the Billy Beane Money Ball team model for David killing Goliath? Ousted last night in Oakland by Detroit. Oakland was in the old World Series in 1988, 1989 (beat Giants), 1990. Since then no appearance in the WS or MBL tournament finals. Billy Beane has been general manager since 1998. The San Francisco Giants won the tournament in 2010 and 2012.
San Francisco: 6 in payroll, 3 in attendance
Oakland: 24 in payroll, 23 in attendance
The older, bigger markets can more easily get TV money from regional sports networks, which combined with their edge in attendance gives them a natural advantage. They also tend to have fan loyalty that is deep seated and a part of the community, not an add-on with a swimming pool in the ball park.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 Super League
I really don't care whether Kansas City has a MLB team. Nor Toronto. Nor Pittsburgh. I'm tired of junk like small market teams and revenue sharing. There's a reason it's called MAJOR league. It does not mean that Kansas City cannot have a baseball team. It means that Kansas City is not entitled to a MAJOR league team, subsidized by fans of the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Dodgers, etc. Why don't those teams drop out of MLB and form a super league of their own? They could form their own television network and/or cut deals with existing networks...
Let the remaining teams go their own way. Who would care? Not SL fans.
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Los Angeles Dodgers
New York Yankees
Boston Red Sox
Detroit Tigers
St. Louis Cardinals are number 11 among the 30 teams.
Other tournament teams:
13, Cincinnati
15. Pittsburgh
16. Atlanta
18. Cleveland
23. Tampa
24. Oakland
Houston had the worst record and the lowest payroll. 14 of the 30 teams spent at least $100 million and the Dodgers and Yankees well over $200 million.
The traditional teams play in the big league cities, the ones currently called big markets. The Rays and Marlins of the MBL world play in minor league places, euphemistically called small markets. These newer teams were added in smaller, newer cities. Where else could they go?
Thursday, October 3, 2013 Small markets: isn't that the minor leagues?
Pittsburgh fans looked orgasmic the other night watching their Pirates defeat Cincinnati in the National Conference wild card play-in game. Forty-thousand Pittsburgh faithful watched in person. So where were they during the regular season?
Out of 15 National Conference (NC) teams Cincinnati ranked 10th in attendance, Pittsburgh 11th. What the heck? That's success? At least it's not as embarrassing as the attendance ranks of the American Conference (AC) teams in last night's do-or-die play-in game in Cleveland: Tampa last, Cleveland second to last. Even Houston in its first season in the AC was higher despite 111 losses and only one sellout, the final game against ... the Yankees...
The objective of the MBL is to have as many people for as long as possible think (hope) that their team can win. It's largely a sucker game...
I don't see how anyone can characterize the system a success when the two teams, Cleveland and Tampa, in last night's game were dead last in attendance. Can you? Maybe their fans realize that their teams are mediocre and not likely to defeat the one seed in the upcoming five game series. Maybe those fans are not such suckers after all.
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Pittsburgh: 15 in payroll, 19 in attendance
Cincinnati: 13 in payroll, 16 in attendance
Looks like the fans in these cities got what they deserved: teams on the bubble that probably cannot sustain a high enough level of play as reflected in team payroll to consistently contend for a good spot in the tournament.
Cleveland: 18 in payroll, 29 in attendance
Tampa: 23 in payroll, 30 in attendance
As much as mainstream media types like to tweak the Yankees, but not the Dodgers so much, for buying championships and laud Tampa especially, it looks like the Tampa Rays did not even get their money's worth for the little they spent. The Dodgers have a 50-50 chance of making the finals.
And what of Oakland, the Billy Beane Money Ball team model for David killing Goliath? Ousted last night in Oakland by Detroit. Oakland was in the old World Series in 1988, 1989 (beat Giants), 1990. Since then no appearance in the WS or MBL tournament finals. Billy Beane has been general manager since 1998. The San Francisco Giants won the tournament in 2010 and 2012.
San Francisco: 6 in payroll, 3 in attendance
Oakland: 24 in payroll, 23 in attendance
The older, bigger markets can more easily get TV money from regional sports networks, which combined with their edge in attendance gives them a natural advantage. They also tend to have fan loyalty that is deep seated and a part of the community, not an add-on with a swimming pool in the ball park.
Sunday, March 29, 2009 Super League
I really don't care whether Kansas City has a MLB team. Nor Toronto. Nor Pittsburgh. I'm tired of junk like small market teams and revenue sharing. There's a reason it's called MAJOR league. It does not mean that Kansas City cannot have a baseball team. It means that Kansas City is not entitled to a MAJOR league team, subsidized by fans of the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox, Dodgers, etc. Why don't those teams drop out of MLB and form a super league of their own? They could form their own television network and/or cut deals with existing networks...
Let the remaining teams go their own way. Who would care? Not SL fans.
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