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    Given my limited exposure to Seattle over the past decade, I could see it. I first went there to visit friends right around the time that Seattle had emerged as a good baseball team. It must have been a few years after they beat the Yankees in that famous series. But I don't recall there being much of a noticeable passion for the team. The Seahawks might as well have been non existent then. Seattle is kind of like Atlanta, in that it has so many people who are not from there. Except there are no black people, and a hell of a lot of 25 year old meth/heroin addicts living on the streets. It doesn't seem like a huge pro sports supporting town. I was last there a year ago and don't recall much passion for any team among the people I ran across. From what I've read it does sound like that MLS team is at least competing for attention with the Seahawks. And given their very recent PR win, they could easily own the short-term interests of the fans. Although if Russell Wilson and the Seahawks build on last season, they will probably own what part of the city that cares.
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    it costs as much as a share of google? Damn.
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    We're talking about it being inexcusable to not compete for a playoff spot until 2015, not what their record was last year.
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    i don't get how this could be. even if they didn't play a disparate amount of games, you don't think the seahawks would outdraw the soccer team? Based solely on attendance? What a flawed way to measure. But yes the seahawks sell out every game. Of course the sounders draw over 40k which is almost double the next-highest MLS team. They play twice as many games as an NFL team and they aren't all Sunday afternoon when attendance is easy. and how much do they cost?
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    If you pour all your efforts into that farm system while most other teams are actually trying to keep fans interested in their big league team it is not at all hard to make that system good. Again, what would you have done differently? again, go back and look at the thousands of pages on this site devoted to the different things they could have done to get better since they took control. it's not on me to make them better, it's on the supergroup of highly compensated geniuses. Their job isn't to vault to the top of baseball america rankings, their job is to make the big league team win lots of baseball games.
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    If you pour all your efforts into that farm system while most other teams are actually trying to keep fans interested in their big league team it is not at all hard to make that system good.
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    Screw that. The specifics have been thrown out thousands of times. Don't come with this nonsensical "there is nothing they can do about their situation" rhetoric. It's their job to make it happen. They are the highly compensated super group already 2 years into their tenure. If they can't figure out a way to make the team competitive 3 seasons in they really did a poor job.
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    It might be, but that would have to only be by choice. Because it could open next year if they wanted to try and open it. How do you think they should do that? Actually try this year and stop crying poor. Do stuff along the lines of what was said above.
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    It might be, but that would have to only be by choice. Because it could open next year if they wanted to try and open it.
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    It is not the NFL, but it is closer to the NFL in terms of ease of making the playoffs than any of the other major sports. 33.3% - 37.5%, compared to more than 50% in the NBA and NHL. The NFL starts every year with 4-5 teams that have no chance 4-5 teams that are close to locks and a whole bunch in between. MLB is similar. You can't overhaul an entire roster as quickly as you can in the NFL, but the NFL also requires you put together a much bigger roster, plus injuries are a much bigger problem, plus coaches and their respective strategies also matter.
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    And that the budget is more restricted than they expected. And the changes in the new CBA were more restrictive than anticipated. And that the wind blows in more often than they thought.
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    The Pirates handed the keys over to Neal Huntington in 2007 though. So this is only the 6th year of his version of their rebuild. That means we need to give Theo and Jed until 2017 before we expect a Pirates like season.
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    Take solace in the standings for now. http://espn.go.com/mlb/standings/_/type/wild-card
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    They've pushed their elite batters sort of quickly. But with these arms, even though they were college guys, none of them are elite and if they are pitching in Boise right now, there's no point in skipping levels without complete domination. They went with the quantity strategy, and with that you need patience for one or two to emerge.
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    Andy MacPhail, 1996 All that proves is he didn't stay true to what he wanted to do. Helped out by the fact he hired a bunch of morons to help him carry out his plan. How so? He stayed completely true to what he wanted to do. They focused on pitching on the minor leagues and were happy to trade prospects eventually to go after big leaguers, and acquired veteran bats from outside the system, plus consistently rose the payroll. He ended up hiring boobs who hired other boobs and the focus on minor league pitchers idea was stupid as hell, but I don't see how he didn't stay true to his word.
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    jozy again
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    Typical provincial Illinoisans. Get out more.
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    Kind of ridiculous to pretend to be surprised by people not knowing who McDonald is. He's a nobody.
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    It's a pretty fair mix of hipsters, techies, crunchy folks and homeless. Things I've never heard of since this page: Sounders and crunchy folks. you've never heard of crunchy people? Like granola/Phish fans?
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    It looked to me to be insanely offsides, but is that negated when the US players touched the ball?
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    that was sloppy
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    ah who cares. It's harmless enough
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    Net operating profit, which does not include debt repayment. It appears that the Tribune/Ricketts alliance screwed us with a rather restrictive sales agreement that is cutting in to our ability to spend. No, it appears the Cubs are choosing not to spend as much money for a few years because they don't think they will take too big of a revenue hit while they reposition the entire organization, from facilities to talent assets.
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