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The Red Sox are a big market team, period. Not like the Yankees. First as i said, it is a matter of organizational philosophy, the yankees just buy already developed talent for the most part. Second it's a matter of scale. The Yankers payroll is over 205 million, without Clemens etc., that is over 85 million more than the Red Sox, sure the Sox are number two, by a fair margin, but they are much closer to the rest of the field (the other 8 of the top 10 teams are all over 85 mil.) Seriously, only a few teams (like maybe 4) have payrolls much over the DIFFERENCE between the Yankers and Red Sox! Also, when team management spends only 40% of it's revenue on payroll (Cle 2006) you have to start asking yourself how much are they comitted to winning for their fans? As for the network revenue, how does that not direclty reflect on the fans in those areas? Boston, Chicago, New York fans are passionate enough to support a network. I don't know what Baltimore or Cleveland's excuse is, their cities are of comparable populations as Boston, and they both have extensive suburban areas as Boston does.
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