[Jake]

Originally Posted by Jake

Once again, the keen Yankee management has found talent where no one else could see it and pieced together a winning team. Sure, the base salaries for this season of Teixeira, Sabathia, Jeter and Rodriguez add up to more than the entire payroll of half the teams in the league, but it isn't money that is building a winner (or enabling them to keep their home grown guys). It's shrewd talent evaluation. No one else saw the hidden abilities of those guys, not to mention AJ Burnett. Only the Yankees knew, and that supreme baseball knowledge is paying dividends on the field.

Speaking of dividends, it's a damn good thing they got over $500 million from taxpayers to finance their new billion dollar stadium otherwise they'd probably be playing in an abandoned lot somewhere. I just hope they can afford to pay that $26 million luxury tax, approximately 3% of the total of four contracts (Sabathia, Teixeira, Jeter, ARod).

I think I'll do my part by looking into buying some $2600 tickets when the Royals come to town.

If there's a god the $500 million mercenaries will [censored] down their legs in the playoffs. Better still, that meteor we keep hoping to hit the big house when scUM-ND play each other could hit the House New York Taxpayers built when the Bosox come to town for the ALCS, lest we hear about the "greatest rivalry in sports that was one-sided as hell for 90 years" ad nauseum.