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What is your point? I acknowleged the Yankees spending. The Colts hit the NFL equivalent of hitting the lottery drafting Peyton Manning. The Minnesota Twins are a small market team that has been to postseason 5 times in 8 years, if they can do it so can Kansas City. The Oakland Athletics have 5 postseason trips this decade. It doesn't matter if the Yankees win 120 games a year that doesn't stop the Pirates from winning the NL Central. I am bothered by the Yankees spending but equally bothered by the whining of how some teams never make it. Every sport regardless of economic structure has teams that perform well and those that don't. I responded to a post that stated the same teams win all the time. You are never going to have a situation where teams win equally.

If you think I like seeing the Yankees spend alot you are wrong. The NFL which I love gets constant ass-kissing from the media telling us about how all the teams can compete. Yet in that "perfect system" we are 4 games into the season and Cleveland, Tennessee, and Kansas City's seasons are finished. Oakland, Miami, Buffalo and Jacksonville won't be contending in my opinion either. That's 7 of 16 teams in the AFC just 25% into the season who aren't true playoff contenders. You will not hear or read any major stories talking about the lack of parity in the AFC but when it comes to MLB the media cries a river all the time. I never said the system is fair. I resonded to a post about parity that's all.

The NFL is a national revenue sport and MLB a local revenue sport. The NFL even with revenue sharing doesn't share everything. According to Forbes every team got $94 million in the NFL from national TV deals and another $22 million from the NFL Sunday Ticket, as you know MLB doesn't get that much. Without a salary cap even with all the revenue sharing you don't think owners like Jerry Jones and Dan Snyder would spend more than others? The NFL took advantage of a weak players union something Selig didn't have the luxury of.

Without stating it, you've made one of my main points for me: except in times of incompetent or insane ownership, the Yankee$ should never lose the AL East.

If Dan Snyder owned the Yankee$, however, and continued to insist on being his own GM, the Yankee$ would rarely get above .500 (assuming his acumen in selecting baseball players matches that he's shown in picking football players).

What I was trying to say, vis-a-vis your NFL argument, is that two of the three cities producing the most consistent NFL winners either don't have a MLB team, or have a failed one. Why? Bad ownership can never be overlooked as a cause, but MLB's ridiculous "revenue sharing" program (or absurd lack thereof) cannot be overlooked as a contributing factor.

I may be the biggest revenue-sharing radical on this board. I'm 1000% for it. I'm also for balanced schedules, no interleague play, best four teams go to the playoffs, &c.

So, my points were: apples to oranges vis-a-vis Indy and Pittsburgh; bad ownership happens even in revenue-sharing leagues; and I still hate the Yankee$.

There.

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Personally, I think every other team in baseball should send the Skankees a message. Every other team should boycott every single regular season game against them.

Yes they would go 162-0 and go to the playoffs. But boy would they be stale when the playoffs started! If baseball is going to let the Skankees farce things by buying the top 3 free agents in the same off-season when they are bidding against the other top financial teams in baseball for all three players - then every other team should play along and farce it too.

Imagine - they'd have their 220M payroll and 0 income! It would be awesome. That would teach them! Heck, it might cripple them but it would certainly send a message.

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