I'm a Sox fan and hate the Yankees- but this is a true statment...
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Not that I am yankee fan, but Sox fans who complain about the Yanks spending (which is in the rules, last time I checked) seem a bit hypocritical.
<< <i>double standards are what sockheads are all about. >>
And being bigots are what murcerfans are about.
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<< <i>double standards are what sockheads are all about. >>
And being bigots are what murcerfans are about. >>
And being ignorant is what iseeyou's are all about? Sockhead=red sox (you know, SOCK) fan?
Geez.
<< <i>sox payroll was #2- but anyone care to tell me by how much?? >>
How much more were they than the #3 payroll?
I'd rather a team be like Steinbrenner's Yankees and spend the money he gets than these money grubbers who try to pocket every penny they can.
Until the rules are changed to (a) enforce a salary cap (never going to happen) and (b) cap what cocncession/souvenir prices can be, salaries will continue to spiral out of control.
The only reason Steinbrenner is spending the money he gets is because he is still making a big profit. What was the Yankees income last year? I read somewhere it was $356,000,000.00. A $200,000,000.00 payroll doesn't sound that high when your income is $156,000,000 over your salaries. The Yankees can afford to buy the Brewers. That's why they can go out and buy all the free agents. They also have the best sportsmarket, the New York Metro area. The YES network is available in the area that has a ton of people living in it, so the demographics, along with the Yankees success on the field bring in a ton of advertising revnue. Even if the Brewers win the next 5 world series, they won't make near the money the Yankees do. They don't have the market. The only teams that can compete financially with the Yankees, or have a shot if they winn a bunch of series with just a baseball income (no billionaire owners) is the Mets Dodgers, Angels, Cubs and Whitesox. New York Chicago and LA are the three mega markets. All three have 2 teams. Can any other city support 2 teams? Bring on a salary cap.
A salary cap is needed in MLB.
<< <i>I think the luxury tax and revenue sharing were steps in the right direction. Evident in the Yankees not making a big run at Beltran. >>
It was a step in the right direction, but what baseball needs is a lep in the right direction. They need to pop a cap in salaries. I would say no to a salary cap if these guys were struggling, but what's the average salary now? Something like $1 million a year? If you struggle financially making one million a year, then you have a serious spending problem. Look at it this way. The best teams play from February to October. They get three full months off. Not bad making hundreds of thousands of dollars for 9 months work. The problem with baseball now is that it used to be about the game, about the pride of the players. Now the players think it's about them only. I would rather see a bunch of nobodies have a great well played competitive 1-0 game than see the big teams play a high scoring low quality game that is slow paced with the million pitching changes.
Mike
<< <i>Bottom line is Stainbrenner is a SHREWD businessman and love him or hate him, he is a great owner and plays within the awful rules. The YES Network was Boss George's idea and it has been a smashing success. Just look at the Mets who are now trying to emulate the Yankees by doing their own network. >>
He was a great owner when he was throwing money out for the godawful teams of the 80s?
He was a great owner who was banished from baseball, then reinstated?
Steinbrenner is many things, GREAT isn't among them.
- When comparing payrolls between Boston and the Yankees, consider the following: most of the Yankees money is tied up in pre-market correction deals (prior to the 2003 CBA). Jeter, ARod, and Giambi would had gotten lesser deals if they had signed post-market correction.
- Any Red Sox fan who thinks their team won without "buying a championship" is deluding him/herself. Schilling never would have waived his NTC if the Sox refused to give him an extention. Moreover, they outbid everyone for closer Keith Foulke. In a pre-MC deal Dan Duquette shelled out $20mil/yr to the would-be 2004 WS MVP.
- While teams with higher payrolls do well in the regular season, the worst team in baseball still has a 15% chance of beating the best team in baseball in a best-of-five series.
Other random thoughts...
- I'm not taking anything away from Boston. They truly earned this.
- IMO Theo Epstein is arguably the best GM in baseball.
- IMO they are better than the Yankees, who now must prove, to skepitcal fans like me, otherwise.
- The Yankees will rue the day they passed up Carlos Beltran for RJ.
Here's an interesting website on MLB team payrolls...
Dugout Dollars
Photos of the 2006 Boston Massacre
I do agree also - they are crazy for passing up Beltran for RJ. Beltran would have given them a solid CF for the next 7 years, a solid multi-dimensional player. In the Yankee offense, he would have awesome numbers. Not sure what the thinking was there (or with letting Lieber go to Philly, or giving up on Vasquez after one season), but this year could prove interesting.