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King Felix's New Contract - 7-Year; $175M
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metallicalex777
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Ummm...the mound.
pootshwan
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great pitcher and a true work horse. I think he deserves this kind of contract
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HPC
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Hopefully its nothing serious like they found with Napoli
matchpenalty
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Will teams ever learn. Stupid contract to give a pitcher. A small market cannot afford risk of this deal.
SydBarrett
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Would you please explain to me why you would cancel your season tickets if one player was no longer a member of the team. I have absolutely never understood that mentality, I thought baseball is a team game. I have been a Mariners fan my entire life, through the good and the bad and I have never once had that attachment to a player. Don't get me wrong, I am a huge Félix Hernández fan, I'm even wearing the perfect game shirt that they gave away, but if I had the choice between Félix Hernández or a World Series, I would take the World Series every day of the week.
KnuckleballNation
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Don't y'all have Jason Bay too? So much for that run support... 
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.EmeraldRain
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Not really sure why I need to explain anything to YOU. Nothing I say here can help you understand that mentality or whatever the mental issue it must be to have that sort of opinion. It pretty much seems you've made up your mind that nobody can have an opinion with their wallet for a team being cheap.
Apparently being a lifelong fan of the Mariners and spending thousands a year on season tickets means I'm not really a fan cause I'd ditch the tickets if I felt the owners got greedy and dumped the Franchise player for peanuts knowing they had the money to spend to keep him here. Man, I hate to think what you feel about those Marlins fans after the owner fleeced the city and fans and dumped everyone except Stanton who might as well be gone too. The Marlins are my favorite NL team too and I'd say the same exact thing if I lived in Miami, good grief, I'm the worst fan EVER!
It IS a team game but I'm not paying MLB prices to watch a Triple A team knowing the owners have the funds to put a better team on the field. I've been through the good and the bad, no need to even go there but if the team isn't going to put my money back on the field, they don't need it right now.
How can one even say it's either Felix or a WS? How does that even equate? Why is it only one or the other? You're assuming we'd get the best cache of players in return to trade him. Let's not forget the Upton deal that didn't happen, where I couldn't find a single report that said we would have gotten the better end of that trade, in fact all I saw was that we were giving up too much. If that deal was so lopsided, why would a Felix deal be the best deal in the history of the franchise. Remember, it's Felix or a WS, so those players that we got in return for Felix were THE ones we needed to get a WS trophy so it would HAVE to be the best deal ever in team history to date.
If you want to judge me for that opinion so be it. I won't judge you for continuing your M's season tickets when the owners pocket all the money and not spend it on the field. To each their own..
In the end we'll just have to agree to disagree.
The owner that has never been to a single game?
EmeraldRain
Member
Your point is what exactly?
The former majority owner didn't come from Japan to see a single game? Maybe you missed it but Yamauchi hasn't been the majority owner since 2004 and he didn't even turn a profit until Safeco Field opened 7 years later. Man, a guy who doesn't care for baseball buys the team as a favor to keep it in Seattle, never travels from Japan to see a game and waits 7 years for a profit.. talk about being greedy.
I guess if you are talking about the current majority owner, NOA (Nintendo of America). I would assume it's possible some of the NOA executives haven't seen a game.
Obviously the owner(s) buy teams to make profit but there's a difference between those that put the money back on the field and those that pocket it such as Loria.
