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Originally Posted by Buckeyeskickbuttocks

While I can appreciate that NYC and Boston, for example, have enough population to support bringing in the $$ to spend on buying All Star players, in my mind, there really isn't much of a reason any team out there can't make a similar committment.

If you're bummed that your small market team isn't competing, than have that small market team start spending some money. "We can't afford it...." Bull[censored]. You don't WANT to afford it. The Twins, for example... they're considered "Small Market" and yet they are the ONLY baseball for hundreds of miles to the East (Milwaukee) and 1,000s of miles West (Seattle) and hundreds south (St. Louis or Chitown) Sell the damn product and the revenue will follow. I don't want to hear about how no one can afford to compete with the Yanks. It's not that, it's that they dont WANT to.

Partly true, BKB, but the Yankees get $55 million a year from their local TV deal. That's more than some teams' entire payrolls. Teams can try harder, but they can't match what the Yankees spend.