i didn't have to pg dwn

<font color='white'>fuck you thrax</font>

NYY
Salary (US$)
1. Alex Rodriguez 33,000,000
2. Derek Jeter 21,600,000
3. Mark Teixeira 20,625,000
4. A.J. Burnett 16,500,000
5. CC Sabathia 15,285,714
6. Mariano Rivera 15,000,000
7. Jorge Posada 13,100,000
8 a. Johnny Damon 13,000,000
8 b. Hideki Matsui 13,000,000
10. Robinson Cano 6,000,000
11. Andy Pettitte 5,500,000
12. Nick Swisher 5,400,000
13. Damaso Marte 3,750,000
14. Jose Molina 2,125,000
15. Jerry Hairston Jr. 2,000,000
16. Melky Cabrera 1,400,000
17. Joba Chamberlain 432,575
18. Brett Gardner 414,000
19. Phil Hughes 407,650
20. David Robertson 406,825
21. Alfredo Aceves 406,750
22. Phil Coke 403,300
23. Francisco Cervelli 400,000
Total Team Salary: 208,097,414

Phillies
1. Ryan Howard 15,000,000
2. Brad Lidge 12,000,000
3. Chase Utley 11,285,714
4. Jimmy Rollins 8,500,000
5. Raul Ibanez 7,166,666
6. Joe Blanton 5,475,000
7. Pedro Feliz 5,000,000
8. Cole Hamels 4,350,000
9. Shane Victorino 3,125,000
10 a. Jayson Werth 2,500,000
10 b. Chan Ho Park 2,500,000
12. Ryan Madson 2,333,333
13. Scott Eyre 2,000,000
14. Chad Durbin 1,635,000
15. Matt Stairs 1,625,000
16. Greg Dobbs 1,150,000
17. Eric Bruntlett 800,000
18. Miguel Cairo 500,000
19. Carlos Ruiz 475,000
20. J.A. Happ 405,000
Total Team Salary: 111,209,046


Yankees are a fucking joke...

its people like fiero that allow them to spend so much money and still be profitable. good marketing is all it is. hell, my coworker just ordered a $25 cotton t-shirt which apparently is the same one that all the yanks wore in their lockerroom celebration. i asked him twice if he was srsly spending $25 on a t-shirt, and he didnt understand why he shouldnt. again, good marketing.

Yeah, the Yankees 5 postion infielders (including catcher) earned $94.325 million this season. That's more than 18 teams paid their ENTIRE ROSTER.

And Yankee fans, don't try to tell me every team can spend their money like the Yankees, because they can't.

Average ticket price in Yankee Stadium: $72.97
Average ticket price in Arizona: $14.31

Even if both teams sold out every game and had the same stadium capacity, the Yankees would earn 409% more money just off of ticket sales. However, lets compare attendance between these two teams:

Arizona 2009 attendance: 2,128,765
Yankee 2009 attendance: 3,719,358

Now, obviously the more expensive tickets are likely to be sold for Arizona games. Usually the cheap seats are the empty ones. So I'll increase their average ticket price by double.

2,128,765 x ($14.31*2) = $60,925,254.30
3,719,358 x $72.97 = $271,401,553.26

That's a difference of $210,476,298.96 on attendance ALONE. Obviously more concessions are sold, more paraphrenalia is sold, and the Yankees have richer TV deals, radio deals, and advertising deals.

Now try to tell me how the poorest 20 teams in baseball are supposed to survive in that type of a business model?

Yes, 27 is odd.

they arent supposed to survive

baseball captures the american ideal of capitalism, whereas games like football where more parity is present capture the 'american dream'

baseball is the real face of america, whereas football is the america that most of its inhabitants believe they live in

and that last post is proof that sometimes pot can be a good thing for your brain

I've been arguing with people all day and they keep trying to compare real life with a sport.

In sports teams are not supposed to have a competitive advantage outside of their abilities to efficiently run their team. Players and teams are meant to play the game on equal footing with no clear advantage other than a player's abilities and the team's ability to manage those players. If real life in the U.S. were as you describe, Microsoft would have bought up everyone in the tech industry in the 90's and continued their attempt at a monopoly. This was not the case, nor should it be the case in baseball.

Vitamin P ftw.