Bag Man: I simply don't see where you're coming from. Supporting the Cubs would be a much more interesting proposition if you saw them streak away with the AAA Championship and saw them win something for a change. The rest of your points I really can't understand at all.
I simply don't see where you're coming from. Supporting the Cubs would be a much more interesting proposition if you saw them streak away with the AAA Championship and saw them win something for a change. Perhaps it's a fact that the US minors and majors are incompatible. If even if they were, I've been to minor league games, and the talent levels between them and majors are light years apart. So no, I don't want to see my beloved Cubbies win some sort of second prize while the Yankees/A's rule in a thousand year dynasty. Frankly salmacis I can't understand where your coming from. Dare I suggest that it's a culture difference? I believe that any team should have a fair shot, not at winning it all, but to at least have the ability to build their team through good management and easy accumulation of new talent. I still can't comprehend the fairness of a system that perpetuates those who win just simply because they have won in the past and does not afford struggling teams an opportunity to get better. Not to mention all the scheduling problems. Not to mention if you "promoted" an AAA team, what real major league team would play in a 5,000 seat ballpark? Why would any star play or any young talent what to waste their with a team that has fallen leagues? saw them win something for a change Like I said, the Cubs have won about 15 National league pennants and more recently, a division championship and a Wild Card win. The only team that has never "won" in baseball is maybe the Brewers. My point? Shows that US system affords all or the vast majority of teams the opportunity to win or at least have a shot at the highest level. I don't want to watch second rate sports too see even one time doormats do wellyou need only look at the Mariners, Red Sox, Angles, Indians of the 1990s Like I said your system punishing an unfair. And while the win may work with soccer, it would not satisfy my sensibilities. I further hope that Roma, a team with a pound tradtion, does not fall victim to this system. It's time to say we can agree to disagree and perhaps both have good arguments on both our sides. I however, just can't accept your arguments and seem unconvinced my mine. Needless to say, I don't think either system will change any time too
