"Yeah, Ok. You speek for all of America."
Acknowledged.
"The fact is, yes the Sox have a 130M payroll, which is 2/3 of the Yankees payroll...
Yes, the Sox are also big spenders in a big market. Blame the Yankees for that. However, no-one else in this league has much of a chance because of the Yankees deep pockets."
Hmm, it seems like the Marlins and a bunch of other teams with payrolls much smaller than the Yankees have managed to win the World Series recently. Amazingly the SUX are not among them. How is that possible if payroll is such a huge factor? Face it, the SUX pay ALOT and LOSE. SUX fans are not really getting your money's worth are they?
Go Yanks, America's Team.
One of the reasons the Yankees can afford the hugh payroll is its long tradition of WINNING the American League Pennant and World Series (26 at last count), which builds fan loyalty and brand recognition, which translates to hugh marketing advantages in MLB's biggest market and elsewhere, which generates even more revenunes, which the team then uses to buy even better players to beat the Red Suz and win even more Pennants and World Series titles. And just like a Boston leftist wacko socialist pig, the Red Sux and its fans won't be satisfied until MLB mandates revenue sharing and redistribution of team wealth in effort to produce parity -- and mediocracy -- just like the Peoples Republic of the NFL.
I really have to take issue with this. The Yankees are Steinbrenners team.
In all of professional sports there is only one team that could be said to be America's team. Because there is only one team with owners in all fifty states. The Green Bay Packers.
(And as one of those owners (from Indiana) I'm getting really ticked at our lack of defense this year. It's looking to be a long season if the boys don't get crackin)