[EyeGuy]

There are no “guarantees” in anything.

However, high, and to a lesser extent, high moderate payroll teams enjoy ridiculously unfair advantages in MAKING the playoffs. Some teams haven’t sniffed the playoffs in decades. Unreal.

The only explanation as to how MLB is able to survive this travesty is the quasi roll of the dice that is the Playoffs.

Yankee fans would be the first ones to bitch if it was say, the Toronto Blue Jays who decade after decade, rolled out a payroll three to four times that of the Yanks, with the pinstripers perenially finishing at the bottom of the Division BECAUSE of that payroll asymmetry.

[MacMattico]

Funny you mention the Blue Jays, I was 7 when the Yankees won the World Series in 1978 and 25 the next time they won. I sat through a few years of Blue Jays fans laughing, saying how great they were after they had won a couple of series in the ‘80’s. I never left my team, even when it was said their best days were over. It's a well known fact the Jays squandered what little money they had and sold off their prospects within their own system to win years ago, and in ways they're still paying for it.

The Yankees have money because they are from a big city with a huge fan base world wide that supports the team through buying team merchandise, selling out the stadium every game, and the attraction of the Yankee tradition. Go build that in your city of choice. Yankee stadium used to be half empty in the 80’s and we always ended up in second place. If using OUR money to build OUR team means we win, so be it!