06-20-2015, 09:47 AM
(06-17-2015, 01:25 PM)Paul from Dayton Wrote: We
We aren't the type of organization that should have 37 year old 3rd baseman. We need to constantly be churning out older players for newer/younger players. That's how we got into this mess. We had no business giving BP that contract. Todd would be the same thing. By the time we had a team around him that could actually compete, he'd be 34-35 and on the decline.
It sucks and I like Todd as much as any Reds fan, but it's time to take our medicine and really try to get back to the small market philosophy.
If the Reds become so small market that they constantly get rid of veteran players for young players and as those young players start to become veterans the Reds churn them out for more young players, then the Reds won't be worth watching, period.....The Reds will have become the Little Sisters Of The Poor, basically a version of a minor league team between triple A and MLB....The Reds would break in these young players so they can become veterans with Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, Cardinals, Mets and other teams.....If baseball becomes the teams that can afford teams and teams that can't, and the Reds fall into the teams that can't, then I will just stop watching baseball all together. I hate the Yankees. I do not want to be the team that scouts and coaches up high school players and just as they start becoming good we sell them to teams like the Yankees. I am a Reds fan and the Reds should not be where minor league kids break in before going to the rich teams. ....Also, the Reds now have money from Fox Ohio TV and are making much more TV money than before. The Cincinnati should be just as quality a team as St Louis. St Louis isn't into the small market philosophy and Cincinnati should not be either.
If Reds ever become so small market they are just a step up from triple A ball but not a real major league team, then baseball will no longer be worth watching. This is why I like the NFL and the shared TV revenue and salary cap making parity. .....but the Reds have a pretty good TV deal now and they are not The Little Sisters Of The Poor as some of you make out. ....You people are so worried where the money will come from, and the Reds probably are making more money than you know. It's not just the ticket sales, they have a very good TV contract these days.
