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| Re: Laudablepuss has ruined our Nuggets conversation. Let's talk about pay. by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/10/2009, 11:58pm PDT | ||||
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Quétinbec wrote: I -- okay? I watched about a half-hour of rugby in Scotland with my friend's dad, because I showed up about an hour early for our date, because I'm a fucking retard who couldn't read a bus schedule. I could see getting into rugby. There were moments where the whole thing was very exciting, which I did not anticipate, even a little bit. It's unfortunate that our hatred of soccer has caused us to throw rugby in the pile of irrelevant sports, because it really is pretty cool. I don't know if I want to advocate non-guaranteed contracts in the NBA on this Internet forum, because it wasn't like Kenyon Martin suddenly got a lot worse. It just wasn't a very good free agent crop that year, and the Nuggets gave a large contract (can't remember if it was max or not, I think it was a sign and trade?) to a guy they wouldn't have looked at twice in the average free agent market. I'm not sure if he could be really playing better than he is? It was just dumb to overpay for him, especially if it ultimately meant shipping other guys away in some small way. (The Saints gave large, non-guaranteed contracts to their two defensive ends, and they both promptly stopped producing. So I dunno. Society has driven into me the fact that I am a socialist if I come out against guaranteed contracts, Quentin. It's not a - this isn't a good time to come out against such things in America, right now.) (And I mean, literally right now, since it is night and dark and the President will be out, thirsty.) And in the rest of the world the worst team in a sport gets knocked out of the league and sent to the lower division until it gets its shit together. This system keeps teams like the Clippers from free-riding on the gate sales of successful visiting teams. Not only do you not do this in the US, but you reward teams for sucking by giving them a better a chance at a top draft pick! How well is that working for you?! How quickly would the Clippers and their players get their shit together if the consequence of being so shitty was getting knocked down to the NBDL? You have to run the draft in that order, because it's a made-up system and not truly free market. If it were, the Grizzlies and Nets could simply say, "fuck this" and move to L.A., solving their revenue issues immediately. jeep had a good take on that very thing somewhere in the forum - there should be like five baseball teams in New York City if a lack of a salary cap is taken to its logical conclusion. The issue is that people despise New Yorkers, and if you're going to have five baseball teams there, the entire center of the sport collapses. And I don't know, having the top pick in the draft worked out well for Cleveland! They turned it around after years of incompetence. I will be irate if James leaves Cleveland, however. I will be irate for the people of Cleveland, OH. Clevelanders have been getting fucked for years, and this was their big chance to finally enjoy something about sports, if not their lives. Denver also did well with an early selection that year, getting Carmelo Anthony at #3, after Detroit decided to select Darko at #2. I like the draft, in all sports except baseball, where the pseudo-concept of "slotting" has ripped it of all sense. ICJ |
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