Hey Mark...stop your whining! You have been an MLB owner for two years and already you are crying salary cap! Your reason is the Yankee spending spree this off season. You buy your team for $424 million and you expect a salary cap or an increase in the luxury tax for teams that go over the salary threshold. Mark, you are barking up a tree that will come crashing down on you faster than ever!
Listen I am not a baseball statistician or an accountant, but I do see when a team has $80 million coming off its books after an unsuccessful season, not making the playoffs and making four million plus fans in NY unhappy, you have to spend to make them happy! The Yankees went out and filled the holes needed, three starting pitchers and a bat to supplant the loss of Giambi and Abreu.
The Yankees did that by signing Sabathia, Burnett, resigning Pettitte, and Big Tex. The funny fact is that the Yanks still have $10-15 million leftover and that does not include the $10 or so millions they set aside to spend most off seasons. My question is if you were the Yankees owner, what would you do?
Owners who stash money away for their own personal gain would not last long in the New York market. An owner like the late Carl Pohlad, the Lerner family and Peter Anglo's would be driven out of New York faster than a Red Sox fan at a Yankee World Series parade!
You are a new owner Mark. You nose is still wet and you are complaining. What are your complaints?? You can't afford C.C. or any other high priced free agent, but you go out and give Trevor Hoffman a $5 million plus salary to be your closer. Mark you were still a fan when Tom Hicks threw $250 million at ARod, not the Yankees, but the Rangers.
Hey Mark what about those Rockies throwing $100 million plus at Hampton or the Dodgers throwing $100 million plus at Brown. What team rescued those teams from financial oblivion? The New York Yankees, except for Hampton. Now don't get me wrong the Yankees have made some boneheaded signings in the past, Danny Tartabull, Kei Igawa, Carl Pavano, and more. They have paid for those signings!
Your complaints are about as valid as Citibank executives explaining the purchase of their new private jet. You paid $424 million knowing that you entered a world of money for players. You have a great nucleus and farm system. You are going to have to pay them at some point. Ryan Braun, Yovanni Gallardo, and Prince Fielder are going to command big money. Mark you have to understand, baseball is money!
What have you done with the money given to you from those teams that went over the payroll threshold. Can you account for every dollar given to you? Have you spent that money on your baseball team? How can you say that baseball is unfair.
First, the New York Yankees draw over four million fans and more will come once the new stadium opens in 2009. The Yankees have their own network, YES and just recently partnered with the Dallas Cowboys in a joint stadium concession company. Add some outside partnerships with the Yamauri Giants of the Japanese baseball league as well as Manchester United (soccer). That is smart business!
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