ChiCubsFan4 wrote:
Is anyone else really sick of seeing really good players on really bad teams? Cliff Lee is amazing, but the Indians aren't going to the playoffs. He could be doing so much better for a team that actually has a chance at the playoffs. And Tim Lincecum is ridiculously good, but the Giants suck this season. Come on, I want to see these great players contributing on great teams.
Yeah, but the Indians were expected to compete this year. And isn't like they've been brutal, they're a .500 team and in the middle of the division pack. If they played in the NL West they'd tied with the Dodgers 3 games back of first
They've got a good core and aren't completely mismanaged at an ownership/GM level (aka the Texas Rangers), so I'm not real sure what you're wanting. Also, are you defining "really bad teams" as being any team that doesn't make the playoffs? You post seems to indicate that. I wouldn't agree with that at all. I guess I'm of the opposite opinion. Since I'm not a bandwagoner, I generally hate "dynasties" and embrace parity. I like that outside of the AL East of the past dozen years, a team that finishes in the middle of its division one year can finish first the following year (excluding a few horribly run franchises that are perpetually bad). Star players are also often the only thing that makes watching bad teams enjoyable. It sounds like you're suggesting you'd rather have a handful of all-star teams and a whole bunch of AAAA teams?
