Winger2765
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Basically we are shoe horned into two choices; leverage long term success for short term success or hope that an above average team can manage to win against excellent teams. Unfortunately this is one of the reasons I hate baseball. Teams like the Yankees, Dodgers and Red Sox can afford to take bad contracts and eat them. Mid market teams like the Twins have to try to be sneaky and depend on luck. I can't really say which path is the correct one but I will say as a avid Wild fan that if I had to choose between Chicago's "short term" success and the Wild's "sustained success" I would probably choose the former over the latter especially when the latter comes with an first round exit every year.
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I can't agree with this article. If you look at other Minnesota sports teams they have no issues finding talent (at least in leagues with a cap). The Vikings/Wild have not for the most part had issues finding talent. Did the Vikings overpay for Captain Kirk....maybe, but Speilman recognized the window was open and they made their move. He chose Minnesota over New York and Denver. That being said the professional football, hockey and basketball players have to live here in the winter. The Baseball players arrive in March and stay through October. You ever do work outside in southern Florida during the summer, Texas, Arizona. Frankly the whole its cold think doesn't really apply to them. That being said the MLB needs to take a long look at their cap/luxury tax system. The reality is that if the Yankees want to win a WS they go out and buy it literally buy it (27 of 112 of them with an additional 13 appearances that they lost). After the Gerritt Cole Signing baseball is starting to lose its appeal again.
