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At least that's what the Yankees will tell themselves.

That's where the Yankees have their advantage. They don't really care about that. They can always out price everyone else on free agents because it doesn't matter if they don't live up to their contracts in the later years. They spent $38mm for <145 IP on Pavano. They gave Damon a five year contract and a long term deal to Posada.

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That's where the Yankees have their advantage. They don't really care about that. They can always out price everyone else on free agents because it doesn't matter if they don't live up to their contracts in the later years. They spent $38mm for <145 IP on Pavano. They gave Damon a five year contract and a long term deal to Posada.

They've always operated on a different level, treating $60M or $80M like most teams treat $15M or $20M. They can take risks other teams don't dream of, and now they have a new stadium that essentially acts as a mint, printing money at unprecedented rates.

Almost nothing they do this year with regard to Sabathia or Teixiera will surprise me. They just might commit a total of $45M or $50M a year for 6, 8, 10 years to lock up both of them.

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They've always operated on a different level, treating $60M or $80M like most teams treat $15M or $20M. They can take risks other teams don't dream of, and now they have a new stadium that essentially acts as a mint, printing money at unprecedented rates.

Almost nothing they do this year with regard to Sabathia or Teixiera will surprise me. They just might commit a total of $45M or $50M a year for 6, 8, 10 years to lock up both of them.

Commit half a billion for two players? Yeek Gads!
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Their yearly revenues are going to be more than $0.5B. You don't think they'd tie up ~1/10th of their annual revenues for two superstars?

I'm not disagreeing. I'd never considered those numbers before and was temporarily stunned.

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