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Why should virtually every other manager have to spend 2, 3, even 4 times the amount they are spending right now to compete with Steinbrenner. Do you honestly think their should be 200 million dollar payrolls?
Most teams know they aren't going to compete with the Yankees and a few other teams in terms of spending, so they may as well save themselves alot of money by simply not spending anymore. This will always keep the payrolls lopsided.
But hey... I'll keep laughing. The Yankees should realize that they had their highest level of success when they weren't trying to form an allstar team. 6-7 years ago when a good portion of their team was out of their own system and they were trading for/signing guys like Tino and Brosius and Knoblauch, which weren't superstars, but seemed to always come through when needed. They were respectable then.
They can keep spending and spending and I'll keep laughing and laughing when they lose every year. The only thing worse than losing to the Bosox after getting ahead 3 games in the playoffs would be for the Devil Rays to magically make the playoffs next year and eliminate the Yankess on a 30 million dollar payroll. =P
By the way, I completely agree on how fucking retarded it is that lower end teams don't spend luxury tax money to improve their teams. That's fucking ridiculous.
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