Tha' fuck would you know?
Something tells me we can't option him any more, but I don't know that.
I just wish somehow we could spend relative to what others are spending and to what our market size is. Why our revenue won't allow us to have a $160 million budget like some teams in markets smaller than ours have is beyond me. Either those teams are spending well beyond what they should or we have poor revenue streams compared to others. Or maybe this ownership group used to much debt to purchase the team and they are paying that off. Either way I thought when these guys purchased the team that we would compete in spending with most teams not named the Yankees or the Dodgers. It makes me dislike the Fielder and Choo acquisitions even more because those have really hamstrung us it seems.
I have. I heard it a few weeks back by someone on a national level and I have read it on local boards in the past. If I am not mistaken I first read it when some of us were complaining about the Berkman signing a few years back.
Sometimes it is important to realize you need to be a seller and therefore a rebuilder. The Cowboys did it with Hershel and the Rangers did it with Teixeira. Neither franchise has had the guts to do it again though and both might be better off if they had.
I didn't get to hear it, but I can pretty much imagine what Norm would say. I have had some email discussions with him quite a few times in the past about the subject of the Rangers budget size.
