The New York Yankees Represent Everything Wrong with Baseball

The New York Yankees have a payroll of $218 million. $218 million! Despite this, they won't even win their own division thanks to the Red Sox. They may not even win the wild card, which seems to be reserved for Cleveland or Detroit. What does that say about a team's fiscal and personnel management? This isn't even my main point. What bothers me about the Yankees is they made baseball so much about money that it ruined to fun for many fans. There are now only nine or 10 teams that actually matter in baseball. Payrolls are so high that over half the teams in MLB have no chance at all. What about A's fans or Orioles fans or even Padres fans that have no chance at all in today's MLB? The game is rigged towards big market high payroll teams.   The Tampa Bay "Don't Call Us Devil" Rays are basically a Quadruple-A team that feeds talent they can’t afford to keep teams like the Yankees and Red Sox locked and loaded. Sure, revenue sharing has helped a little, but that is ... [link]