Red Sox sign David Price to biggest contract for a pitcher in MLB history

[Yavin4]

Price's average annual salary of $31 million ties Miguel Cabrera's deal with the Detroit Tigers as the biggest in MLB history.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2577658-david-price-to-red-sox-latest-contract-details-comments-reaction

Who's evil now? Who's trying to buy a championship now?

[hughee99]

1. Being a Yankee fan, I'm sure you're not trying to imply it's the Red Sox, and NOT the Yankees

that are trying to buy a championship. I think this is way too long a deal for Price (7 years for a 30 year old pitcher!) but it's certainaly not out of character for the Red Sox to overpay for talent. See Hanley Ramirez, Pablo Sandoval, Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzalez if you don't believe me. It rarely works out well.

[Yavin4]

2. When the Yankees sign a big name Free Agent....

it's bad for baseball. Small market teams can't compete. This is evil...blah..blah...blah.

Red Sox sign a big name Free Agent, and it's crickets about impact on competitive balance.

[hughee99]

3. Actualy, I don't call the Yankees evil for signing big name free agents,

stupid, maybe, but not evil, and if I recall correctly, you were recently arguing that having more money has no effect on competitive balance.

Were you just wondering where all the people who think money makes a difference are?

[Yavin4]

6. Don't change the subject. One of the Red Sox owners called the Yankees evil. n/t

[hughee99]

7. It was the former team president, Larry Luccino, in 2002 after the yankees outbid for Jose

Contreras. The Sox offered a ton of money (or what would be considered so, at the time). The Yankees offered more.

”The Evil Empire extends its tentacles even into Latin America,” That's the quote. The Yankees don't seem to mind, they play the Imperial March from Star Wars during their pre-game warm-ups (not continuously, but it's in the mix of music they play)

Were you expecting Luccino to post here, since he's the one you have an issue with?

By the way, how did that Contreras deal work out for the Yankees? About as well as Matsuzaka did for the Sox.

[KamaAina]

4. The Sox have been right behind the Yankees in payroll for years now

but the Yankee-haters embrace them because they're the Yankees' rival. And no one yells and screams about the Dodgers, who have now surpassed them both in the $$$ department, perhaps because their efforts to be a championship have so far been spectacularly unsuccessful.

[madinmaryland]

5. Dude. joeybee has you and the rest of this group on ignore. It won't work...

Even Will Pitt left after the Cheatriot scandals.