My AL East Preview+ Playoff Predictions

Argument that he uses saying how he hates how the Yankees spend their money, but has a bigger problem with the system for allowing them to do so.

Huh? what world are you from? Is this not the same system every single major league baseball team has to follow? did MLB all of a sudden give the Yankees their own separate set of rules they must follow?

The Yankees spend their money and are penalized for doing so by sending armored Brinx trucks to other franchises. Franchises with Billionaire owners who do not want to spend their money on their product but rather line their spiffy William Fioravanti suit. The Yankees spend it on product. Which in turn, brings out fans, not just in New York, but in every other baseball city in baseball. Yankees are a revenue boost to ALL of baseball. The Dodgers this year will not sell individual tickets to the Yankees coming to Chavez this year. They have decided the only way to get Yankee tickets is if you purchase a 13 game season package. Tell me the Dodgers are not trying to capitalize on the Yankee culture? that 3 game series will make the Dodgers a few shiny new Buffalo nickels.

My advice to you, Lawson, is.. drop the lame argument. It is old. It is pointless, it is an easy way out of an argument that has zero validity. It will be proven wrong over and over again. You do not like the Yankees, that is fine, a lot of people do not. You might not like the Yankees because they spend their money but do not blame them for doing so. The goal of the Yankees is to win year after year and the Yankee ownership does everything it can to make sure that happens. The Yankees risk their profit yearly for the chance to win a trophy, that is something to make fans proud and to make them forever loyal. The Yankees want to win, money will not be the issue that stops that. While other teams store their profits in vaults the Yankees keep the revenue coming by rewarding their fans. That is the difference. Winning brings out fans. Gets you the national games. Increases product sales. Etc.

By the way. Yankees, Redsox, Mariners, Phillies, Cardinals, Giants, Dodgers just off the top of my head, have better pitching staffs than the Braves.

Tim Lincecum-Matt Cain is baseball’s best combo? Time will tell I say.

Go lea$h your$elf back up.

It’s great for people to say that the MLB system is inequitable. That’s great. I agree. In theory there shouldn’t be a $160 mil discrepancy between the highest payroll and the lowest payroll. I think any reasonable person can agree that the system isn’t perfect, but nobody has ever suggested an actual solution.

Everyone praises the NFL for its salary cap but the ONLY reason the NFL cap works is because the NFL has non-guaranteed contracts. If an NFL team signs a player and it doesn’t work out they can cut the player, take a cap hit for 1 year and then move on and sign someone else. Non-guaranteed contracts are NEVER going to happen in baseball so comparing MLB to the NFL is a waste of time.

So what happens in a cap sport with guaranteed contracts? Then you get the NBA where teams have to tank multiple seasons in order to get under the cap and actually improve. That’s not a good situation at all. The NBA also has far less competitive balance than baseball. In the last 20 years, 6 NBA teams have won championships. In the same amount of time, 11 MLB teams have won titles. Again, its great to complain about the MLB system but then propose an actual solution.