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TenderLovingKiller® said:
Such a fun baseball guy. I was blessed to grow up with the likes of Harry Caray and Hawk Harrelson as the voices of the Cubs and White Sox but I bet Bob was an amazing listen.

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I'm old enough to be able to say I saw Ken Harrelson playing first base for the KC A's as a youngster. He was a serviceable first baseman and very mediocre as an outfielder with a batting average that was meh. He was always a good quote for the writers and broadcasters and that got him into the booth to prolong his baseball career as an announcer.
 
OMC said:
I'm old enough to be able to say I saw Ken Harrelson playing first base for the KC A's as a youngster. He was a serviceable first baseman and very mediocre as an outfielder with a batting average that was meh. He was always a good quote for the writers and broadcasters and that got him into the booth to prolong his baseball career as an announcer.
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Thankfully most my memories of the old Hawkeroo are associated with stories about Yaz peppered between his fantastic strike out (“he gone!”) and Home Run calls (You Can Put It On The Board…. YES!!”). Mediocre as baseball player, worse still as a GM but fun in the booth.
 
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I think the Dodgers are becoming the new Yankees. As much as people hate the Yanks, what the Dodgers are doing to the league is crazy. Hoovering up all the talent. If they don’t break the ‘01 Mariners win record it would be a failure of a season.
 
wokeupnew said:
I think the Dodgers are becoming the new Yankees. As much as people hate the Yanks, what the Dodgers are doing to the league is crazy. Hoovering up all the talent. If they don’t break the ‘01 Mariners win record it would be a failure of a season.
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TBH, the Dodger are kinda their own thing. The Yankees “Big Spender” era witch I feel like didn’t hit full gear until the signing of A-Rod (that I know it’s now ended but it definitely has since they’ve now regularly lost out to the big time free agents regularly)

I feel like the Yankees hate is more derived from their status as “the frontrunners favorite team” and maybe the Dodgers will get to that point but they have “only” won two WS since they started spending big. I am definitely to the point of rooting against them but they haven’t surpassed the Yankees or Houston or The Cubs for teams I hope fail every season.

I think the Dodgers might get there but they are not there yet.
 
wokeupnew said:
I think the Dodgers are becoming the new Yankees. As much as people hate the Yanks, what the Dodgers are doing to the league is crazy. Hoovering up all the talent. If they don’t break the ‘01 Mariners win record it would be a failure of a season.
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Yeah, whenever a big time free agent is available, it is the same 4 or so teams that are mentioned as possible destinations: Dodgers; Yankees; Mets; and Red Sox. The Cubs are often mentioned as well. Big markets with owners willing to pay the tax for over spending. The Yankees used to be the one team that did that consistently, but, yeah, it seems the Dodgers have taken the top spot now. They have also been smart about tapping into the international pipeline for superstars. You certainly don’t ever wish for injuries, but that tends to be the “X” factor that can derail these super teams from steamrolling the rest of the league. That and lack of chemistry when you put a bunch of giant egos onto one team.
 
Spending the most money really only secured the Yankees their last title in 2009. It obviously got them to the postseason regularly but I wouldn’t say it was a super successful era. Those 90s teams were a lot of home grown talent supplemented by big name pitching added at just the right time.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Spending the most money really only secured the Yankees their last title in 2009. It obviously got them to the postseason regularly but I wouldn’t say it was a super successful era. Those 90s teams were a lot of home grown talent supplemented by big name pitching added at just the right time.
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Totally agree. I think bad chemistry has ended a bunch of seasons for the Yankees since 2009.

Young teams with great farm systems have a chance to surprise the league every now and then, but they have a very limited window. Once those young players develop into superstars and that next contract comes around…they gone.
 
TenderLovingKiller® said:
Spending the most money really only secured the Yankees their last title in 2009. It obviously got them to the postseason regularly but I wouldn’t say it was a super successful era. Those 90s teams were a lot of home grown talent supplemented by big name pitching added at just the right time.
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Aron said:
Totally agree. I think bad chemistry has ended a bunch of seasons for the Yankees since 2009.

Young teams with great farm systems have a chance to surprise the league every now and then, but they have a very limited window. Once those young players develop into superstars and that next contract comes around…they gone.
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I think the Yankees recruitment has been poor outside of some star players. They buy players far too late in their careers or while they’re mostly washed up hoping to capture some of that magic again.
 
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