Worst Pro Sports Franchise?
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honorable mention, if only for this abomination
The Florida market for both teams is primarily made up of transplants that are not going to go to Marlin or Rays games and become their fans but keep being fans of their former city or area, they might go see them when they come to town, but nothing else. There is also just so much to do in Miami that few are willing to go out of their way to see a game. The Rays stadium is difficult to get too, they should have built it in Tampa making it easier for fans to attend.
Was wondering who was going to say this, the lions and browns are teams 1/2 in any order. You have teams on here that have won championships in the last couple decades in the white Sox and marlins
Another vote for the Twins from me. Lifelong fan. Pissed off that the only time they're going to win a world series in my lifetime I was 2.
I don’t think an MLB team can count since the playing field has zero parity. The teams and franchises can be dumpster fires but there are things working against them that just don’t exist for NBA and NFL
The structure of MLB makes it difficult for teams in the small markets to compete, once they start to get a few good players they cannot afford to pay them what those players are going to make in a larger market. So teams like the A's, Twins, Royals and a few others build up their players, win and then lose everyone and have to rebuild, while teams like the Red Sox's, Yankees and a few others can keep purchasing players to keep winning.
The NFL is completely different, it's more poor ownership and management why teams like the Browns, Raiders and others keep losing for decades. Just poor choice after poor choice is made, and a constant revolving door of coaches.
The NFL is completely different, it's more poor ownership and management why teams like the Browns, Raiders and others keep losing for decades. Just poor choice after poor choice is made, and a constant revolving door of coaches.
Exactly, I mean the pirates struck gold getting Paul Skeins so young plus the huge boost that Livvy dunne brings to that franchise from a media perspective yet they won’t actually win anything with him because he’s just gonna go to one of the coast teams in a few years.
In football or basketballthat guy is getting locked up right away and would be around for a decade minimum
The media structure of MLB has just made it nearly impossible for the small market teams to lock up their best players and win. It has created a constant build up, and then tear down cycle that will not change until they use more of an NFL structure on their media contracts. Teams like the Yankees and Dodgers gets hundreds of millions on their media deals while teams like the Reds, Royals and Pirates get a fraction of that.
At least in the NBA and NFL all teams starts at the same starting line, money wise, but not MLB, its more profitable for some of these teams to not win than lose money by building up salary and the team.
I think you misspelled masterpiecehonorable mention, if only for this abomination
It’s a tough question because of the criteria. Is it better to kinda try and be completely incompetent like the Jets, or better to not try at all like the Marlins?
Ultimately, there are too many owners that just use their franchise as a tax write-off to avoid paying taxes from their other ventures. Show paper losses and watch the franchise value grow.
Ultimately, there are too many owners that just use their franchise as a tax write-off to avoid paying taxes from their other ventures. Show paper losses and watch the franchise value grow.
Are we not considering NHL, because it has to be the Columbus Bluejackets. They have never been relevant. I only know about them because I have a cousin who lives there and has adopted them as his team because it is easy to get tickets.
The Sabres would have been the answer until 3 months ago.
Columbus is laughably mid, but I’m not sure they’re truly inept.
No nibbbles? I’d round up a mill or two for them. Could sell them to relocate for a good chunk.
Rockies owners have no interest in trying to win.
I had a conversation yesterday with a fellow Denver resident and we were OK with the Rockies being horrible as it allows us to get great cheap tickets whenever we want to go to the park for a game.
