Are you kidding me? (To all the red sox haters out there......)

Hey all, Th3 Izhkabam here. Doing a guest blog here on Dobber's Sports blog.....I'm going to be ranting and raving here for a few moments, hope you don't mind.......

An intro will be needed, of course. But not now, I have more pressing matters to attend to.

It all starts here........October 21st 2007, game 7 versus the Cleveland Indians......it was a series that all the way around, was a classic. Both teams fought hard, tied for the best record in baseball with 96-66 records, it had all the makings of a prize fight, neither team was going to go down easily, and that point was proven in each of the seven games. Unfortunately like most things, the series had to end; and Cleveland was the team who drew the short straw and ended up losing the series. Then came something I never thought I'd experience from Cleveland fans, whom I previously thought were a classy group of fans from a great baseball town, bitterness.......

Are you joking? Seriously? Are you? But hold on there's more.........

A week later........October 28th 2007, World Series Game 4 versus the Rockies........
The Red Sox showed that they were the better team by outpitching and outhitting the Rockies in each of the 4 games, and instead of maybe giving A-Rod, and his agent Scott Boras a bunch of crap for announcing that Rodriguez was opting out of his contract, people gave the Red Sox crap about "Buying a World Series" and that really burns me up.....and that's what this blog is about.....

Do people still buy into the philosophy that money buys chemistry? or worse than that, world championships? Have you not been paying attention to what's happened to the Yankees, Mets, or the Pre-2004 Boston Red Sox? Hell even 2007's Detroit Tigers, Seattle Mariners, LA Dodgers, LAA Angels, Chi Cubs and White Sox, all of which have payrolls eclipsing the 100 million dollar mark, can all agree with that. And honestly no one had bigger collapses than The Mets, or the White Sox.

There's spending money, and there's spending money wisely, and not every player needs to be an all-star, Coco Crisp, JD Drew, Julio Lugo, Eric Gagne anyone? They all had pretty terrible seasons, proving that even if you spend the money, you don't what you're going to get. Or better yet.....anyone notice the Baltimore Orioles spending 22 million to improve that ailing bullpen of theirs....and what happened, another season in 4th place.......

Look I'm not saying that I'm defending all the free spending that a lot of baseball has, but when you think about it, since baseball doesn't have a salary cap, what do you really expect? People who have money are going to spend money to improve their ball club, and yes even Cleveland will spend to improve their club, especially since I don't see Paul Byrd or Cliff Lee being with that club anymore. But think, if baseball had a salary cap none of this would even really matter to anyone. would it?

Oh and by the way, complaining about a Baseball team that's won 2 championships in the last 90 years, that's pretty low......considering Cleveland went to the world series twice in the last ten years......and it took Boston at least 18 years to get back to the world series, even after spending all that money........

Baseball teams spend money.....get over it.....if you're not the Florida Marlins, Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Pittsburgh Pirates, or Washington Nationals, teams with payrolls under 50 million dollars; you really have no right to complain....get over it, they're the teams without the money to spend.