killeverything wrote:Yeah, but which is worse? A built team with a vicious farm that will be there next year or one that cost 300 million dollars and didn't even make it past the first round?
All part of the plan.....Andrew Friedman said LAD isn't going all in this season.
$87.5 million was for players no longer on the team! A huge chunk of the 300M was being paid to the, Marlins, Braves, Padres and Redsox to corrupt their inner structure and help them finish at the bottom of their division. Did it work?
How did Panda and Hanley do Fenway? We know how the Padres turned out!
Matt Kemp and Hanley Ramirez served LAD well! Including the carry over of big money no show contracts like Josh Beckett and others who'll be off the books shortly. This season was about a boosted payroll used to sabotage other teams.
LAD in the trades had sleeper agent "Dan Haren" sent from the Fish to damage the CUBS. Haren devastatingly
announced his retirement this morning after being brutally swept last night.
LAD ate a $28 Million Dollar signing bonus and $1,267,760 season salary for Hector Olivera to damage the Atlanta Braves....How did they do?
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Dr Evil would be proud.....300 Millionnnnnnn Dollarssssssssssssss. The limping Dodgers after a good fight may have fell in the NLDS but the plan was a complete success! Mr. Bigglesworth it's off to our Cryogenic Frozen In-N-Out space rocket, when we get back Mattingly will be gone and most of the high priced assholes will be hurting other teams leaving the Dodgers take over the WORLD.....series.
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The Dodgers also ate $26 million to pull off strategic trades including pitchers most who didn't even see the field like 3.5million Bronson Arroyo, he was so bad the Dbacks traded him and players to the Braves for Phil Gosselin who had more weeks on the DL then RBI's, 15.
The Dodgers brain washed Dan Haren so bad this was his statement.
Dan Haren thanked baseball on his way out, making his retirement official shortly after the Chicago Cubs were swept out of the NLCS by the New York Mets on Wednesday night.
Dan Haren: Now that the CUBS are out, I have time for more trivial pursuits like catching up on this whole "Star Wars" thing.
dan haren
@ithrow88
I've never seen one Star Wars movie and I'm 35, where do I begin? My mom made me watch I Love Lucy when I was a kid and I loved it. I've never seen one Star Wars movie and I'm 35, where do I begin?
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At least LAD, a team in shambles, won the division and gave the Met's all they could handle. An error or that stupid manager call away from beating them in a 5 game series. The Dodgers did rather well thank you very much. I'm sure the New York Giants were comfy giving yet another Division title too LAD with most of the MLB watching them in the Post Season!
Now the Dodgers, Giants, Cubs and Red Sox get to watch the playoffs from home together. At least they didn't go out in the WC round like the Yankees.