Quote:
Originally Posted by canuckguy
I never understood the hatred towards the baseball revenue issue with the yanks and beantown spending more than everyone else. I say good for them, they want to win and invest in the teams. And this is coming for someone who roots for the jays. I wish our owners would spend the money bos/ny does.
|
But they don't have that money.
The Yankees are really on their own plane when it comes to the money they bring in. The Red Sox are next, a little further back, but still well beyond every other team. Then comes the tier with the Mets, Cubs and Dodgers, almost exponentially less, and it goes down more and more from there.
It isn't that they have more money to spend than other teams. It's that they have more money to spend than many teams COMBINED. It is blatantly unfair, especially considering the only reason the Yankees can even make that money is by competing with all of the other teams.
This isn't even money from the owner; this is money they get essentially as their birthright as the more-successful team in the largest market in the country. To suggest that the system is nothing short of embarrassingly unfair, let alone suggest what you do about an owner not shoveling all of their money into the fireplace to fail at fighting what other teams get for free, is to have a very poor view of the subject.