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If it wasn't a better product, people wouldn't be consuming it at levels higher than MLB. There's also the Dodgers. Just looking at their roster they have Betts, Freeman, and now Ohtani that came from other teams that they offered a pile of cash to. Kershaw is a home grown talent but they also paid a lot to keep him that many other teams couldn't afford.

Because the Cardinals and Braves have more resources than the A's and Rays to keep their players. In the NFL the A's and Rays would have the same resources as the Cardinals and Braves to keep their players. The Cardinals and Braves are the middle class of MLB. They have enough money to keep their players but not enough to consistently poach star players from other teams. I think I have been pretty clear about what I mean by rewarding teams who draft well. The Dombrowski Tigers are the perfect example of a team who benefited from other teams drafting and developing well. The Tigers threw a lot of money at Ordonez and Rodriguez, traded prospects for Cabrera, prospects they paid over slot for, threw $200 million at Prince Fielder when they need a one year stopgap at DH, and only developed Verlander who they paid over slot for and possibly Granderson. You also repeat the reasons why the NFL is better. There is no hard salary cap. That's an issue. The NFL didn't always have a hard salary cap. I can objectively say the NFL is better because every metric says it is such as viewership, money etc.

The Cardinals and Braves are most like NFL teams. They draft and develop well, keep their homegrown players for the most part, and will sign free agents to fill out the roster.

I just don't think the current system in MLB rewards teams who draft and develop well the way the NFL does. Some teams in MLB are just advanced farm teams for MLB teams.

I would also argue teams like Oakland and Tampa are handicapped because they have to draft well and win while their players are on rookie contracts because they will most likely lose them. In the NFL, the greatest player ever signed with Tampa because they had as much money as any other team to offer Brady and made the case they were the best team for Brady and not the one with the most money.

Currently 30 of 32 teams have real a possibility of making the playoffs in the NFL right now. The parity is that all teams are working from the same budget. The Lions have been a historically bad franchise because of poor ownership and the inability to draft and develop players. It's not because a handful of teams have an unlimited budget and can just sign away their stars. I have no fear if the Lions wanted to sign Goff, St Brown, and Sewell to extensions they will be able to because they have the same budget as every other team. If Torkelson and Greene become stars, I have no faith that the Tigers can compete with the Dodgers or Yankees or one of the few teams with nearly unlimited budgets. The Tigers aren't rewarded for drafting and developing those players like the Lions are for drafting and developing St Brown and Sewell. The Dombrowski Tigers got rewarded for never drafting and developing players. Only Verlander and they really shouldn't have been able to draft Verlander. They were able to because they were willing to pay more. At least MLB fixed that.

Why don't progressives just tell Palestinians to hand over Gaza to keep peace since they are going to lose to Israel like they tell Ukraine to just hand over territory to Russia? How does a ceasefire work when Hamas has broken every ceasefire and continues to state publicly they will attack Israel?

I don't know if she is better than my congressman and my congressman is John James.

Decker listed on the injury report as no practice and Ragnow listed as limited.

LOL they wanted to keep Cabrera. They couldn't pay him what the Tigers and other teams were able to pay. I also bet if money was equal, Cabrera would have preferred to stay in Florida.

Mahomes had the opportunity to be a free agent and he chose to sign with the Chiefs. The thing is, the Rams couldn't just offer him a $700 million contract that the Chiefs had no hopes of matching.

The fact there is a lot more development and international work makes it even worse. Teams will do all the work of developing talent and then a team like the Dodgers will swoop in and over an enormous contract. The Tigers have benefited from this. The Marlins went and scouted and signed Cabrera and spent the 4-5 years developing him to only have to trade him at age 24 because they could never be able to sign him. Sure they won the World Series in 2003 but imagine that team with Cabrera and Giancarlo Stanton and Hanley Ramirez? We wait years for these prospects to develop, and if they do, they're likely gone. I don't worry about the Lions not being able to compete with other teams to keep their star players.

Big man, often injured, big contract, plays in Los Angeles, sounds like the Pistons are going to make a run at Anthony Davis.

Yeah those are all reasons why the NFL is better than MLB. The thing is, if you do draft a player like the Chiefs did with Mahomes, New York and Los Angeles can't give him a massive deferred contract. They can pay him the same as what the Chiefs pay him. The Chiefs are rewarded for drafting well. If the Royals had drafted a player of Ohtani's caliber and spent the time developing him, he would have been traded because the Royals would know they can't keep him. It matters in the context of the Lions because they are equal with other teams. It means the Lions have just as good of chance of being one of the dominant teams in the league as any other team. Parity is what makes the NFL better.

This is why the NFL is so much better than MLB. The best team in the NFL the past several years has been the Kansas City Chiefs who have the best player in the NFL under a long term contract. The New York Jets haven't made the playoffs in over 10 years, the Chargers only have one fan and nobody cares about the Rams, a team from Green Bay Wisconsin has had two hall of fame QB for 30 consecutive years, the top AFC contenders last year were from Cincinnati and Buffalo, a team from Tampa had the greatest player of all time sign with them and win a championship, and one of the leagues elite franchises is from Pittsburgh. If the NFL was like MLB, Mahomes would have signed a $700 deal with New York and Los Angeles, Brady would have never stayed in Foxborough as long as he did, and Aaron Rodgers would have been able to hold more teams hostage.

He's probably on the phone with Joe Barry. You let my guy go down field and win this game and maybe you don't end up hanging in a meat truck. On a side note, I can't believe 15 years later Joe Barry is still a defensive coordinator.

Refs knew if they let the Packers win that they would be next to Jimmy Hoffa under the endzone of the old Meadowlands.

This isn't going to be an easy game for Minnesota even with Burrow out.

If the Lions had beaten the Bears, they would have had a chance to clinch against Denver.

I hope Seattle's playoff hopes hinge somehow on Minnesota winning and the Lions beats Minnesota to eliminate Seattle. We did them bitches a favor last year and they didn't return it.

I don't think the Packers schedule is as easy as people make it. They have to play Tampa who is leading their division, they still play Minnesota whose fighting for the playoffs, and they still play the Bears who are an improved team.

The Bears are only one game out as well.

Same old Packers.

Can't believe the amount of cushion these Giants DBs give to the Packers receivers.