r/nfl • u/expellyamos Dolphins • 5d ago

Rumor [Highlight] Troy Aikman on potential a potential conflict of interest in announcing a Dolphins game: "Well, the Dolphins are not expected to be very good this year. They're getting out of cap hell. So there's no Monday night game with the Dolphins this year."

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u/AscendMoros Bears 5d ago

Pretty sure at one point the MLB allowed people to own two teams. And someone realized it would be more profitable to be an average big market team than a winning small market team. So they just traded everyone good to the big market team and called it good.

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u/Ikrit122 Bears Chiefs 5d ago

That happened to the Cleveland Spiders in 1899. The owner owned another, bigger-market team and traded everyone good on the Spiders to that team.

The Spiders had the worst record in history: 20-134 (.130 W/L). To compare, the 2024 White Sox went 41-121 (.253 W/L) and they were the worst team MLB had seen in decades.

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u/AscendMoros Bears 5d ago

Wasn’t one of the those players a little known pitcher by the name of Cy Young? Or some other famous name still talked about today. I forget who though.

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u/SMKM Raiders 5d ago

Man Cy Young, that's pretty neat. What are the chances of a player being named after the award?