[Citizen of the Savage Nation]

How the hell should I know, that wasn't my point. How far above the league average payroll should a team be allowed to spend without being considered as 'trying to buy the title'? The Dodgers took a lot a heat for building up a mediocre $100 million team but the Yankees have now gone well beyond that, and now have added an $11 million mediocre player to their roster. Oddly enough, both teams have identical records right now, so the extra money the Yankees have spent hasn't paid any dividends.

[Huck]

How the hell should I know, that wasn't my point. How far above the league average payroll should a team be allowed to spend without being considered as 'trying to buy the title'?

Well if you don't know what the limit should be, how can you say the Yankees are "abusing the system?" They are free, under current rules, to spend as much as they want. I might point out that they didn't pay 13 million to Kevin Brown. They didn't pay 18 million to Manny Ramirez. They didn't pay 250 million to Arod. The Yankees have not been the ones pushing individual salaries higher. The Dodgers, the red Sox, the Rockies and others have done that. As for buying a title, how do you think you put together a quality team? Good vibrations? All the teams in the post-season are in the very top of the payroll range: 90-118 million. Someone is going to be on top. Until everyone is brought under some sort of revenue sharing or cap, why should George let up? The other teams won't. They are the ones driving the salaries up.