Talk:Fire sale (sports)

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Contents 1 Fire sales in sports 2 Texans 3 Coyotes 4 WikiProject class rating 5 Original research

[edit] Fire sales in sports

Regarding: "The term comes from the perception that ...". Common sense would suggest that this is a folk etymology, and that the term comes from the similarity with real fire sales (such as stores have after they've had a fire). If there's no reference for this, surely it should be deleted? -- andy, 7/6/2007

I've been adding to this section slowly. However, the examples in this section might be biased towards events in the last ten years in baseball and hockey, since those are the two sports that I follow the most closely. Feel free to add additional examples. (If this section of the article gets too long, should it be moved to fire sale (sports)?) --Idont Havaname 04:51, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

It's a little difficult to have a firesale in football because of the complexities of the salary cap system, what with incurring cap penalties for certain trades and such.

[edit] Texans

The Texans also have a fire sale. Falconleaf

[edit] Coyotes

The Phoenix Coyotes are currently in a firesale stage, and it looks likely to continue once the trade window opens up again.

this article is absolutely the single worst article i've seen on wikipedia. ever. --75.0.145.130 07:40, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

better but could still use some work--75.0.148.84 17:04, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 05:58, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Original research

I'm a little concerned about possible original research in this article. As I see it, in order for a situation to be listed in the article, some reliable source should have identified the situation as a "fire sale". If a Wikipedian is simply looking at a situation, and supposing that since it seems to meet the conditions, it qualifies as a "fire sale", that would be an interpretation of the situation, and disallowed as original research. No? —DragonHawk (talk|hist) 05:31, 8 January 2008 (UTC)