nytimes.com - 7/4/2008
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It looked so good on the season schedule — four straight dates in early July, BOS@NYY. Mark it down. Save the date. Be there. Why, then, did it feel so anticlimactic Thursday night? >
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No open books, no parity
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"Turnaround and shock are good for baseball. Despite the vast cable riches enjoyed by the
Yankees, Red Sox and Mets, they are currently being outplayed by Tampa Bay, a franchise that probably could have been terminated at any given time since their its debut in 1998."
The article doesn't mention that the Yankees and their fans paid for much of the Rays' expenses via revenue sharing and luxury tax. The "vast" cable money/parity argument doesn't work in baseball as it may in the NFL. It isn't parity, ...
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