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Originally Posted by Remember42
I'm 26 years into an historical replay of Boston and have won the last two WS. I have an outstanding pitching staff and excellent lineup with good defense. I have not dipped my toe into the free agent pool the last two years because I am solid everywhere. Each year my owner has cut my budget from 100 million to 71 million, which would have severely crippled me. I have the 4th highest payroll. I play in Commis mode and easily corrected that problem.
He also wanted I cut my team salary from 100 mil to 70mil at the same time he was insisting I re-sign a superstar to a 38 million contract extension.
I often find myself thumbing my nose at the owner.
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Yeah, I don't know, man... I find this pretty in line with real life. Ownership can be kind of petulant and contradictory about stuff, and demanding that you continue to contend while slashing payroll is sort of common. I'd even look at that as them trying to find an excuse to fire you.
The other aspect of this, too, is that if you win a lot of games all of those goals kind of get forgotten about. I mean, the owner might not be happy if you're $50M above payroll (and of course he won't allow you to sign FAs and at that level probably won't let you resign guys either) but if you won the WS he's not going to can you for not acquiring an upgrade at shortstop or improving your stolen bases. On the flip side, of course, if you go 64-98 you'd better be doing all of the other things the owner is looking for from you if you want to keep that job. That's also pretty well in line with real life I think.
I'm not saying the game is not without its AI hiccups (and glaring issues for that matter - see my commentary on scouting), but I'm not at all convinced that this doesn't mirror real life and provide you with some of the exact same frustrations that real-life GMs encounter.