What?
I’m not bitter.
The best team won… and the best team cost $200,000,000.
And guess what baseball fans? Next year the defending champs will have at least 7 guys making over $13 million… and that doesn’t include the likely addition of Matt Holliday for approx. $180M or possibly John Lackey for $100M.
Arod: $32M
Sabathia: $23M
Jeter: $21M
Teixeira: $20M
Burnett: $16.5M
Rivera: $15M
Posada: $13.1M
But hey! … MLB had their best TV rating numbers in five years, so who cares right?
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What?
Did Red Sox splash out $200M for the 2004 World Series-trophy?
Anyway….life goes on…..a bit greyer this autumn, that’s all! Right?
Swedesox (Max?) – The Sox were at $127M in ‘04 and $146M in ‘07.
The Yanks were at$184m and $189M respectively and have out paid the Sox by an average of 69M per year since 2004.
Anyone who still think the Sox and Yankees are on the same level just isn’t looking at the facts.
Problem is, this is the future of the AL East (and baseball). Even at $201M this year, the Yankees can afford to buy Holliday or Bay (or at least jack up the price on everyone else) and – as an example – they can afford to give a guy like Billy Wagner $8M not to retire, and just eat the money if he breaks down…
Ridiculous.
But hey, don’t take into account that three of those that you listed are Yankee FARM HANDS or that A-Rod was originally acquired via a trade. But hey, that doesn’t matter since it goes against your premise that the yankees buy everyone via free agency, does it? Red Sox fans complaining about another team spending money is pathetic. Especially when Boston is far from a small market, in fact is one of the biggest markets in baseball. here’s a radical idea, tell your ownership to stop pocketing all their profits and actually put some of it into the team. When you let Teixeira go to the yankees because you refuse to pay an extra 2 million a year, you don’t have a single right to complain.
house…
I don’t really care if some of the guys were traded for or home grown or whatever… the bottom line is the Yankees can out bid every team for a player – including the Sox. Yes, the Sox eventually capped their bid for Teixeria, but he was never going anywhere but NY. Boras just made sure we all jacked the price up first.
Do Marlins fans have more of a right to “complain” than Sox fans? Yes. But The Yankees are a problem for all of baseball, I just happen to wrote a Red Sox blog.
ps. When a “farm hand” grows out of the control of his original team, he almost always moves on to another team that can afford to pay him – deals like Evan Longoria and Zack Greinke signed are a refreshing change of pace, but usually teams with money can buy up the good players that other teams have cultivated.
The Sox are one of those rich teams, but the Yankees take it to a whole other level… and it will hurt the league in the long run.