Top 12 signs your favorite MLB team isn’t serious about winning

Posted by Douglas Charles on April 6th, 2009 at 7:30 am

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12. The team cares more about arbitration eligibility than winning games

11. Your players were sincerely interested in playing in the WBC

10. Promotional materials stress the spring training won-loss record

9. The bobblehead giveaways are of mascots and announcers

8. Team personnel cite Tampa’s emergence as proof that anything can happen once every five minutes on average

7. Home dates against teams with strong visiting fan bases are priced at 2 to 3 times the amount of ordinary games

6. The manager’s contract and medical benefits haven’t been extended

5. Dusty Baker is somehow involved, either as a past legacy or a present concern

4. The team has no known or suspected steroid users, because that would involve giving a damn about winning

3. The season preview is centered around who will be dealt by the All-Star break

2. Vegas is giving better odds to teams with century-old curses

1. Your best players are Americans

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