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[Nastradamus]

Originally Posted by The Q

Once you cross 100 mil it's basically the same. And the 2nd tier 90-100 mil could most likely get into the top tier if they really wanted to.

no, they couldn't. They don't have near the revenue of NYY and they are struggling to stay at 100 as is. Mostly because one or 2 Sexson and Washburn contracts kills a team like the Mariners,Tigers or Phillies, a Pavano or Giambi wouldn't stop NYY from anything.

[Nick Soapdish]

Originally Posted by NYGman4life

Gotta love all the Yankee haters crying about money. As if it wasn't the same in every sport.

You still have to put the pieces together. You still have to play.

Wouldn't you want YOUR team to spend the money they have instead of pocketing it all like some owners? Not only the Yanks have almost a $200 mil team salary, they also have to pay luxury tax out the @ss. All to win. Wouldn't you want YOUR team to do the same if possible.

Well, for the first time in 9 years, the pieces fell the Yankees way. Good for them, and good for their fans.

Sure, I'd love to see all the owners paying out all their money and not pocketing even a penny for profit. But over half the teams still won't have a payroll of even half the Yankees.

And if the Twins were to actually match the Yankees payroll, they'd be losing over $100M a year - and that's assuming that they got an attendance boost (but not a huge one), didn't pay the luxury tax and still got the luxury tax money from Steinbrenner. I mean, yeah, Pohlad can handle it. He has a billion and he's like 96 so he's probably not going to live long enough to go broke. He pocketed a tidy sum this year, but he isn't all years and that profit would've been wiped out if Santana took the offer.

That is why non-Yankee fans are complaining that it isn't a level playing field. The Yankees can't buy a championship. But they can buy a hell of a lot more lottery tickets than any other team. It buys them sustained success which means that they're hitting the playoffs more often and have better odds when they get there. For a single series, it's still a crap shoot, but they can load the dice.

And if the Yanks screw up on a deal, no problem. They'll just sign somebody else at a different position to fill the hole that they thought they were filling that year. But smaller market teams need to hit paydirt with every major free agent signing or concede the bigger fish to the big market teams. For the smaller clubs, increasing the payroll doesn't make much sense. They're just going to be paying more for the same players that they're already getting.