Should the AFL have a mid season trade period?
For many years in the AFL community there has been talk of the AFL bringing in a mid season trade period. Sports such as the NBA, MLB and NFL currently have a mid season trade period in place, which means the competing teams are able to trade for players and to get rid of players in a certain amount of time. A trade period in the middle of the season in the AFL, would allow clubs to gain players and get rid of players, replace players that are injured and it would give the AFL community something to be excited about mid season. A mid season trade period would also cause a disadvantage to clubs that have good list management, lower clubs that would lose players to the better clubs through free
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Players that have suffered an injury that prevents them for playing for the whole entire season, such as a torn ACL that generally takes one year to fully recover from, would be able to replaced by an another player. Port Adelaide is an example of a team that would have benefited from if there was a mid season trade period last year. This is because they only had Matthew Lobbe, the only ruck men on their list last year, after Patrick Ryder was banned by ASADA for taking drugs in the 2012 season. They were left to having to play Jackson Trengrove, normally a defender as ruck men for half the season because Matthew Lobbe tore his PCL close to the start of the season and was ruled out for three months. They would have been more competitive if they were able to pick a replacement ruck men in the middle of the season. To the positive of having a mid season trade period, having one would be a disadvantage to clubs that have good list management, such as a Hawthorn. These teams would be losing the advantage they once had. The AFL fans would largely benefit in having a mid season trade
This is a flawed system that needs to be changed for the better enjoyment of NFL fans, and to make it fairer for coaches and play...
Under the protection of Major League Baseball’s (“MLB”) longtime antitrust exemption, Minor League Baseball (“MiLB”) has continuously redefined and reshaped itself according to Baseball’s overall needs. But while MLB salaries have increased dramatically since the MLB reserve clause was broken in 1975, the salaries of minor league players have not followed suit.
Although the first sight of tanking was in 1985 by the Rockets to draft Hakeem Olajuwon, tanking has never been at such a high rate then right now. It causes problems to fans, coaches, and players by lowering moral, and wins. The question is really should it be legal? In recent discussions, and Op-Eds people have expressed their opinions that talent shouldn’t be wasted for a year. On the other hand people make the argument that being bad for one year in exchange for being a playoff caliber team for up to 10 years is worth it. Hopefully the NBA discusses the matter with all its general mangers and figures out a solution that everybody can abide by. For now tanking is going to continue until somebody changes the rules.
...onclusion, injuries can change the way a game is played. The team's efforts can be stopped or jumpstarted based on the situation in which the injury occurred. The morale of a team is marginally affected by injuries in garbage time, which is the last 4 minutes of a game, where the team is just trying to prevent the opponent from doing anything. Most injuries cause issues later on in life. Concussion victims often have permanent brain damage, which affects their life after retirement. Injuries not only devastate a player, it devastates everything around them.
The Los Angeles Dodgers have almost gotten into the playoffs and looked like real contenders for the past three years. Yesterday marked the day that they would be officially in the playoffs. They beat the Giants 8 – 0 with Kershaw getting the shutout and launching their campaign into the postseason.
Business deals happen every day; Contracts expire, renew, and are negotiated without the public knowing for many large corporations and even sporting leagues. However, some contract changes cannot escape the media’s attention. The National Football League (NFL) is facing an expiration of its Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) (NFL Lockout Now One Month Old). Currently, the agreement has expired and NFL team owners have selfishly chosen to “lock” the players out. The term lockout means that the players are essentially not allowed to participate in any team activities or duties until the owner’s rescind this lockout. While many believe this is simply a battle between team owners and a player union, it can only appear to most as a selfish act of the NFL owners trying to rich, greedy men in expensive suits, and the only people they are hurting, are the fans of football.
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The average NFL (National Football League) career is only 3 years because of injury. Players are constantly retiring early because of injury that is not allowing them to play to the best of their abilities or even to play the game at all. Some of these injuries have even made it difficult for athletes to have normal lives mentally, physically and financially.
You have 100 people to deal with so you're always seeing new injuries everyday. Hopefully not but always happens so we got to be ready for
The Texas Rangers are based in Arlington, Texas and play in the American League West in Major League Baseball. Previously the only way to consume Texas Rangers baseball was to attend the game, watch on television, and to hear it on the radio. If you did not live in the Arlington area, were an out of market fan, and the game was not nationally televised, then the fan is out of luck and cannot watch their favorite team play. With the introduction of the internet and social media a fan can consume sporting events in so many more ways. Texas Rangers fans can consume baseball games on television, through the Texas Rangers team site, and through Twitter.
When asked to describe a baseball the first word generally voiced is white, and before April 15, 1947 that is exactly what the game of baseball was, white. “There is no law against Negroes playing with white teams, or whites with colored clubs, but neither has invited the other for the obvious reason they prefer to draw their talent from their own ranks” (‘42’). These were the feelings of people living in 1947, that blacks and whites were not meant to play baseball together. Then, why decades earlier, had there been an African American in the league? In 1887, an African American Pitcher, George Stovey, was expected to pitch a game with Chicago, however, the first baseman, Cap Anson, would not play as long as Stovey was on the field. Other influential players in the league quickly joined Anson in expressing their disgust, and Stovey suddenly found himself no longer in the game. “In the six decades that followed the only other attempt to sign a black player was made by Baltimore's Joan McGraw. He tried to pass of Charlie Grant as an American Indian in spring training of 1901” (Frommer 65). It had been years since anyone had even attempted to play an African American, but on April 15, 1947, the whole world of baseball changed. The fight for the integration of Major League Baseball had been going on for decades and it took not only some very influential players, but the press, and some determined owners to make the change permanent.
many injuries throughout the season and the players are able to return. Injuries like concussions
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