VotD: Good Times Derby Times.
By: chris | December 11th, 2008Fantastic Derby video with all the afters put out by RomaChannel a couple weeks ago. Highly recommend going to YouTube and watching in HD if possible (that little blue link bottom right hand on the YT page).
(Someone dropped this in the comments awhile back. Come claim your prize.)
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Don’t know if this has been posted here already but for people in Ireland and the UK the station SportsXchange has rights to the Coppa Italia. They are broadcasting Roma v Bologna this Wednesday @ 8. I think you have to have Sky or Setanta sports pack but it will be nice to see Italian football on TV again instead of a tiny screen on Betfair.
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Aquilani = softer than angelina jolie’s lips
Yes that’s right I kissed that bitch
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bologna torino 4 2 77th minute
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Bren, not so. Milan, Inter, and Juve are quite popular all across Italy – even in the south. Granted, Milan and Inter have nothing like the fan base of Juve, but they are up there.
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Major League Baseball is very similar to calcio in terms of revenue. A few teams make the most money and spend the most. There is no revenue sharing for television rights. The yankees combined with their tv network YES is said to be worth four billion. However, in baseball small teams regularly do well and even win the world series.
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lucid post UA, spot on!
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Bren…….the mayor of Rome and almost-PM of Italy was an avowed Juventino. Also an atheist, but that’s kind of another deal.
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CUCS, one small thing. North American sports equalize with salary caps (except MLB) but also just as importantly, the draft. That allows crappy teams to remain competitive. There’s no chance the Rays would have gone to the World Series if they hadn’t been able to snap up promising players in their many many years at the basement of the AL East.
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Ale, I didn’t think of the draft. I kind of like the way they do it in Italy. Imagine instead of playing little league you were playing for the mlb (that is if youre really good) They do have a cap in mlb if you are over you have to pay all the other clubs money. So Tampa Bay probably get a check from the Yankees.
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Alessio If he loved Juventus he MUST have not believed in God. Just kidding.
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CUCS, you’d actually be surprised that their is revenue sharing in the MLB, a certain percentage of ticket-sales revenue is spread throughout the league; however, that percentage is very small (I want to say something like 15%?? don’t quote me). Plus the luxury tax takes money away from the biggest spenders and puts it into the hands of the smaller spenders. The problem with MLB is that often the profit-maximizing win-percentage for these smaller teams is to strive to have a losing-record. Basically, it wouldn’t pay for them to splash more money around to buy more talent – because their increase in revenue through ticket sales/merchandise/broadcast rights etc. would be minimal and not worth the added cost. So teams like the marlins/roylas, etc. sell talent constantly, and then cheat the books by taking the money they get from higher end teams like the yankees and keep it as opposed to actually spending it on added talent (as they are required to do).
I took sports economics – this stuff is extremely interesting to me, and the discussion gets obviously much more in-depth than that.
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Also, interesting enough, it is agreed by most sports economists that the draft is actually not effective in spreading out talent equally throughout the sport. It does give the worst teams the most lucrative positions; however, these teams are also usually the smaller, less-popular teams – hence y they finished worst in the league. Therefore, while a Cleveland Cavaliers may be able to get a Lebron James, the impact he will have on the franchise is only measured by the length of his rookie contract with the team. Eventually, (almost always if he is a marquee player) it will come time for him to become a free-agent, at which time the biggest market teams with the most revenue-potential and therefore the most money will sign the player (NY, LA, etc.).
The only place that the draft truly works (at least to a much greater extent) is in the NFL, where basically ALL revenue is shared 50-50 by all teams in the league, and there is a strict salary cap (and salary min to protect against under-spending). Also being able to franchise tag players helps smaller teams in the NFL to a large-extent. However, there is still ways to get around the cap as the Cowboys prove (with huge signing bonuses and incentive packages)
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*THERE is revenue sharing… hate when i do that
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My biggest problem with the draft is the fact that it encourages shitty play at the end of the season. After Katrina, the Saints were fucking awful, and when they were 2-14 why would they play well? If they finished badly, they got a top player. Which they did, Reggie Bush. Not remotely like in Europe where the bottom teams are fighting for their lives.
The draft system makes some sense when your players are all coming from one league…..aka college. That’s why it’s pretty retarded in MLS. It’s not a total draft, but it certainly gives no incentive to teams to invest in a youth academy.
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Thanks for the answers dudes.
So it just seems so incredible to me that Aquilani is not able to play a game for over 2 months (now your telling me more).
Didn’t we see him going out with his girlfriend, driving a car, in no need of crutches or anything, etc., yet his unable to play?
I am so disappointed in the guy
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I don’t know if anyone is interested, but I’m looking forward to seeing Barcelona blast 4 goals past real madrid. I really want to see real get a whopping.
Barcelona 4 – real 1
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Your point about the Rays is true Ale, but that is an almost impossible case (esp. in the MLB). That’s why people made it such a big story all year and i guarantee will be a movie one day. However, give it 2 or 3 years, when it is time for all of these guys to hit the big levels of Salary Arbitration and then become eligible for free-agency. Their will be a fire-sale in Tampa, and they will try to stock pile young talent once again and will have to start this whole process over again (although they will keep Longoria, as he is the face of the franchise…. similar to Ryan Braun in Milwaukee).
There simply is not enough revenue potential in St. Petersburg for them to remain competitive, especially within the AL East. So, while the draft did help them, it is rare that so much talent will actually materialize for a team at the same time so quickly – everything happened to go right for them this past year. Their success however, will undoubtedly be extremely short-lived
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Napoli 1-0 Lecce. Hamsik Penalty
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I hear your point on that as well Alessio. Many actually try to make a case that the reverse-order-of-finish-draft makes for teams who struggle in the beginning of the season to almost surrender, and give-up in order to get a high draft pick. However, as a big sports fan, I can’t honestly say that I have ever seen a team do this (except maybe a couple cases in the NBA, but i hate the NBA, so who gives a shit). The major kicker here is that all of these players have an immense amount of pride in what they do for a living. So, the Dolphins didn’t fold last year and kept fighting to win a game, even though it meant they may give the first pick to the raiders. Same will go for the Lions this year, they will keep fighting to win a game or two, even if it means the Chiefs or Bengals may get the first pick.
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What a stupid fucking penalty to give up by the Lecce goalie. FUCK
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*NEVER seen
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Saints have our part in history….making the Lions go 0-16.
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Haha i’m sadly, a Lions fan… so i’m still hoping we somehow pull off a win somewhere in these next 3 games. And is anyone watching Napoli-Lecce on FSC right now???? 2 minutes ago the commentators go, “And we’ll get a close up of our goal scorer.” And I swear to god, the camera showed Hamsik pulling down the front of his pants and gave a full-in closeup of his pubes.
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damnit
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2-0 napoli
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