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Re: $1,578,299,197 (Re: How Can You Be So Proud? (Re: THE YANKEES ARE CHAMPIONS OF BASEBALL!) |
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Posted by Mitch45 on Fri Nov 6 12:16:15 2009, in response to Re: $1,578,299,197 (Re: How Can You Be So Proud? (Re: THE YANKEES ARE CHAMPIONS OF BASEBALL!), posted by Grand Concourse on Thu Nov 5 18:40:42 2009. How are they supposed to hold onto them? By locking them in a room? When the talented small-market team players (and their agents) know that if they go free agency, big spenders like the Yankees, Mets, Red Sox and others will blow them away with multi-year megadeals, why would they stay where they are and accept less money? How is someone in Kansas City or Cincinnati supposed to hold on to a homegrown player if the Yankees want him? Make him part-owner of the club?You are making the wrong argument, so I will make the right one for you. The Yankees have a lot of money. There's no question about that. The league allows them to spend as much as they want on free agents as long as they pay the luxury tax and other fees that amount to chump change for the Yankees. There is no hard cap. So, the Yankees spend as much as they want and need to, as long as they are playing within the rules, which they are. Ah, but its not fair, you say? No, its not fair. But the Yankees are not under any moral obligation to spend less money to give other teams a chance to compete. They are in the business of making money and winning titles (in that order) and they will spend as much as they need to in order to accomplish that. If other teams don't have that kind of money, oh well, too bad, maybe next life. If you don't like, get the league and the players union to agree to a hard cap. Good luck with that, as they say. Now given all of the above, my objection to the Yankees and especially their fans is not that they spend money - they are allowed and in fact entitled to spend as much as they need to. Its that they refuse to admit that they spend a ton of money and buy a rosterful of stars that no one else can dream of buying. They refuse to admit that without the deep pockets, the Yankees would not have 27 titles. They'd have maybe 22 (the 20 from before expansion and the two from '77 and '78). A small but significant difference. The Yankees are a very clever marketing outfit, I will give them that. They market the current teams as if they were the legitimate heirs of the Yankee teams of the '20s and '30s - teams built through great scouting and great trades. The truth is, these Yankees, and most other ML players, are just mercenaries who love the Bronx because it spells monetary security for them and their families for generations. Not because Babe Ruth played here 80 years ago. |
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