Those Damn Yankees

Hey everyone. I can't take it and I know I'm not the only one, spending by teams in baseball. The Yankees just spent $424 million on 3 players! This brings their payroll to $222 million. How can any small market team compete with that? I'm fully in favor of a salary cap in baseball, even if it's somewhere around $110 million, it's far better than seeing a team spend the economy of a small country while the other teams a forced to sit back and watch. The issue with the absurd spending is that it sets the market for years to come, like the Sabathia deal now when the next big name pitcher becomes a free agent he'll simply say well CC got this so i should get at least this. And it doesn't just raise what the big name players make, now a mediocre pitcher who's at his very best a 4 or 5 starter will be able to pull down $5+ million a year. Now don't get me wrong i don't blame the player for takin the money, cause if i were offered nearly that much to play ball i wouldn't even hesitate, and i don't blame the agents for getting the teams to pay so much because they're doin exactly what their job is get their clients as much money as possible. I blame the front offices, for actually allowing this to happen, and the league office, for not regulating it at all.

The worst part about all of this is it affects the fans have to endure. Yes, more times than not signing a big free agent helps your team win. But it also often means ticket prices go up, which means especially in the economic times we're in now to go to a game means savin up for more than a week if you want to go and just see. Now if you want to buy anything it's gona take that much longer. the perfect example is again the Yankees, to see a game from the box seats at the new stadium will cost $2500 but the great part is that you cant buy one you have to buy four so that becomes $10000 to go see one game from box seats. How is the average person supposed to afford that?


-Daemon