Different ways of acquiring new players

The MLB draft can be seen on mlb.com at the moment and this whole event to me looks so set up. I mean, where's the point in making such a huge fuss about this whole draft thing? I bet most of the organizations knew way before the start of this which player they want to draft for their team. So why have this stupid 5 minute breaks in between the seperate picks? Ah, wait, maybe it's because of the commercial potential with all those commercial breaks. Then again, the commercials are quite funny, hehe.

I always try to compare the American professional sports system to what is going on in Europe and there is just no possibility that there can be something like that over here. All this stuff like All-Star Games and so on. With promotion and relegation the excitement is much bigger in European sports than across the Atlantic Ocean. Although the idea of an All-Star Football Game might be intriguing there is no way you can get a clear distinction between to sides. I mean, there is nothing as a northern and a southern Bundesliga. They do stuff like that in hockey and handball where the German players play against all the foreign players, but in football? No way.


Talking about drafting, there were some serious movements on the European player market in football today. German record title winning side Bayern Munich signed Italian World Cup winning striker Luca Toni and French international Frank Ribery today which wil give them a very strong team for the next season. What is interesting is that Bayern was willing to spend large sums of money (Toni € 11 mio, Ribery € 25 mio) since they were always complaining that sides like Chelsea or Milan were ruining the prices with their policy of spending even more money on rather mediocre players. With those signings Bayern look set to top the German Bundesliga in the next season and I really hate that thought.


On the other hand there are numerous examples when a team bought outstanding players for a high price and they simple failed to deliver. 1.FC Cologne are a club that has a lot of experience on that matter, haha. They always buy players who performed with their previous clubs but mysteriously failed to play well for Cologne. They then get transferred and suddenly they play well again. At the moment 1.FC Cologne, a 2nd division team, are on a shopping spree to secure a promotion spot for next season. We'll see, we'll see....

Oh, another player got picked in the MLB draft and I'm still as clueless as before. Red Sox will play the A's in a few minutes so I might rather switch to that.