Most Yankee fans are front runners. Just listen to NY sports radio..
When it costs $200+ to take a family of four to a game at Yankee Stadium..there is something wrong..
Baseball needs a salary cap, badly..When ONE team overpays wildly, all it does is raise the market for other players. The number of good players is finite. the unchecked free-agency system works against the teams..the fans..only for the players...Look at KC losing Beltran..In NY, theyr'e already speculating when the Yankees can get the Pirate's pitching phenom...
Ask yourself this..Put a $100mil salary cap in for next season, and immediate lower EVERY ticket price in Yankee stadium by $25. Think the fans wouldn't love it..and every dollar would stay in the fans' pocket, and NOT go to the players..
Whoa, bud. That's liberal thinking if I ever heard it. Fact: NY fans pay for their team be it through tickets or cable fees. Why should their money have to subsidize people in Pittsburgh, Milwaukee or Minnesota who won't? Secondly, money does not guarantee the World Series. The Yankees have been there 2 out of the last four and lost, they got beat by the Angels one year in the ALDS and the Sox last year.
The Yankees are learning their lesson about buying everything in site. The passed on Beltran and wouldn't open up the budget at deadline nor would they trade the franchise future.