Originally posted by mankie:
I know I'm not...but saying Florida shouldn't have a baseball team is a bit silly too don't you think?
then, let me put it this way. . . baseball should not have put teams in florida and arizona, because expansion was a terrible idea, both economically to the game, and has caused, in general, a watering down of talent. the surge in runs scored and home runs was not solely due to steriod use, but can also be attributible to the decline in the amount of good pitchers in the major leagues thanks to the increase of teams. it has taken nearly 10 years for quality pitching to show up again and be available to all teams. course, the yankees will just buy all the good pitchers eventually.
that, and the fans in florida are terrible. . .and don't really care about the game itself. sort of like dodger fans in l.a., show up late and leave early.