Unfortunately, smiles around the rest of baseball won’t be so abundant. The Yankees actions all fly directly in the face of what Bud Selig had preached to teams at the start of the off-season. Selig knew that with consumers spending less money in the midst of the recession, the sports industry might have to stay cautious. Clearly, while other teams diligently slashed payroll, the Yankees missed the memo. This made the whole concept of parity in baseball more laughable than ever before.
It’s becoming almost as if there were 25 minor league clubs belonging to the Yankees under the anti-trust agreement: if your players perform well enough, the Yankees will purchase them to play on the big stage. This isn’t fair to the rest of baseball, and it isn’t fair to the taxpayers, who the Yankees seem to have no shame in taking money from, not all of which are even Yankees fans.
So while Teixeira has proven that he can get it done on the field, it will be difficult to justify such spending at this time, no matter how well Teixeira ends up playing. The Yankees are now clearly the most talented team in the division, and given the fact that their payroll stands at more than twice the figure for the defending champion Phillies, they should be expected to win the World Series. Anything less should be a disappointment.
Only time will tell if the shopping spree will lead the Yankees steamroll their way to their first title since 2000 or if they somehow fizzle out early like the 2008 Detroit Tigers.
That’s why they play the game.
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