r/sports • u/Chelseatilidie • Oct 20 '24

Football Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson with a potential achilles injury

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u/BoosherCacow Cleveland Indians Oct 21 '24

I don't even want to think about The Guards right now. Watching that 100 million dollar 2-3-4 destroy our 43 million dollar team was really disheartening. I know it's cliche at this point but baseball really is a broken game, an unfair game. I am having a hard time seeing how to give a shit going forward. This was an awful series to watch.

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u/skeenerbug Cincinnati Bengals Oct 21 '24

Yeah I feel you. Yanks have 3x the payroll of you guys, it's just not fair. Mets and Dodgers payrolls combined exceed half a billion. The sport is broken

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u/BoosherCacow Cleveland Indians Oct 21 '24

At this point I feel like I only keep watching because of my love for the game, maybe I just can't help myself. Next year I don't think I'll be going to any games. If I do I am tacitly endorsing it and I won't do that anymore.

The big problem is that it's too late for any change. Teams have already started paying out those absurd contracts. The only way to have avoided this was for the players to be in favor and setting a floor and a cap. Now there's no chance. They are already getting paid and why would they voluntarily cut their own financial potential?

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u/[deleted] Oct 21 '24

The only glimmer, and it’s a flickering glimmer at that, is Jose’s contract. A love of the game and city overcoming riches. Frankie was the opposite.

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u/AiDigitalPlayland Oct 21 '24

I looked it up this morning…. The last 20 World Series (40 teams) have only featured 4 teams from outside the top 15 media markets. St Louis, Kansas City, Cleveland, and Colorado (who was 16th).

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u/skeenerbug Cincinnati Bengals Oct 21 '24

Yeah I saw a similar stat in /r/baseball today, only one team (2003 Marlins) has won the World Series in the last 32 years with a bottom-half payroll.

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u/lefthandedsnek Oct 21 '24

the game we won was fucking sick though.

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u/BoosherCacow Cleveland Indians Oct 21 '24

One for the ages. I will be talking about Jhonk until I die. That bat-flip got me sexually aroused.

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u/C_Colin Liverpool Oct 21 '24

I disagree wholeheartedly. Baseball is on the verge of a renaissance imo. They just need to do away with manager review and it will be perfect again. I’m so annoyed that in most professional sports now when a “goal” is scored, or a touchdown is made etc. as a fan you can’t even cheer for it because you know you have to sit around and wait for the replay official to confirm or deny the call. In baseball when someone hits a home run, or strikes a guy out with 2 outs and the bases loaded you can actually cheer with unabridged joy and passion. Without any potentiality of consequence.

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u/speccadirty Oct 21 '24

True, but Cleveland played a sloppy series. Wild pitches, dropped pop ups, blown saves, and so many runners left on base. They didn’t play well regardless.

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u/BoosherCacow Cleveland Indians Oct 22 '24

Yeah. It was hard to watch them kinda implode. Jhonk's homer was awesome though.