{"id":621,"date":"2011-10-07T23:57:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T05:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theloungeisback.wordpress.com\/?p=621"},"modified":"2014-01-13T18:29:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T18:29:20","slug":"moneyball-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Moneyball LIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Brad-Pitt-in-Moneyball.-007.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1731\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?attachment_id=1731\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Brad-Pitt-in-Moneyball.-007.jpg?fit=460%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"460,276\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Brad-Pitt-in-Moneyball.-007\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Brad-Pitt-in-Moneyball.-007.jpg?fit=460%2C276&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1731\" alt=\"Brad-Pitt-in-Moneyball.-007\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Brad-Pitt-in-Moneyball.-007.jpg?resize=300%2C180&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Brad-Pitt-in-Moneyball.-007.jpg?resize=300%2C180&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Brad-Pitt-in-Moneyball.-007.jpg?w=460&amp;ssl=1 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, how bizarre, we just saw this movie two days ago, about a poor baseball team attempting to compete against rich teams (in a league with no salary cap &#8230; helloooo &#8230; everyone else has one.).<\/p>\n<p>Get this, the Red Sox didn&#8217;t even make the playoffs, and the Phillies and the Yankees don&#8217;t get out of the first round of the postseason &#8212; in short, they don&#8217;t get the slightest SNIFF of the World Series. These are the three fattest teams in Major League Baseball for payroll.<\/p>\n<p>Combined, the Red Sox, Yankees and Phillies had a payroll of $535 MILLION &#8212; or $178.3 million each.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the teams that are still alive? The Brewers, Cardinals, Tigers and Rangers have a combined payroll of $387 million &#8212; or $96.75 million each, barely more than one-half of the three fattest teams.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, here are other teams that have bigger payrolls than these four teams &#8212; the Cubs, Mets, Angels, Twins, Giants and White Sox, six teams that didn&#8217;t even make the postseason. In the case of the Cubs, Twins, Mets and White Sox, they didn&#8217;t even come close. The Tigers have the highest payroll remaining &#8212; 10th in Major League Baseball. The Brewers are 17th.<\/p>\n<p>What does this mean? Yeah, baseball needs a salary cap and the rich teams still have unfair advantages, but you still have to build a smart team to win. The Red Sox and Yankees completely ignored their flawed pitching staffs while spending like drunken sailors, while the Phillies ignored their flawed offence while spending like a drunken sailor on pitching.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, the world IS fair. A little.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh, how bizarre, we just saw this movie two days ago, about a poor baseball team attempting to compete against rich teams (in a league with no salary cap &#8230; helloooo &#8230; everyone else has one.). Get this, the Red Sox didn&#8217;t even make the playoffs, and the Phillies and the Yankees don&#8217;t get out &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=621\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Moneyball LIVES<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-haruko-sportswriter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Brad-Pitt-in-Moneyball.-007.jpg?fit=460%2C276&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-a1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":932,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=932","url_meta":{"origin":621,"position":0},"title":"Biggest trade in history? 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