A $200 Million Disappointment
Basically, major league baseball is unbalanced.
A simple explanation is that there's one thing separating this league from other sports leagues is that "local" television revenues aren't divided equally among all the teams. So, for example, after the teams equally divide the money from FOX and ESPN, the local Texas Rangers can keep all the money from television revenues that local channel 27 (or FOX Sports Southwest) pays them to broadcast every game.
But the reality is that say, the Los Angeles Dodgers can keep all the money made from the revenue-rich LA area, and the Cleveland Indians get to keep the money from the Cleveland area. You can imagine the disparity.
Well, the New York Yankees make the most out of everyone...and since there isn't a limit on the amount of money a team can spend on salaries (well, there's a fee if you spend over $110 million, but few teams do that) the New York Yankees can simply purchase the very best players, and overpay them so no other teams can afford those players...hence their 27 World Series Championships.
The local Rangers payroll, if I'm not mistaken, is somewhere in the $75 million range. The Yankees, in the same league, is around $205 million.
It's unfair...but that's life, right. Life isn't fair.
Which is precisely why I can't express to you the joy of seeing the highest-paid team in baseball mired in LAST PLACE with 11 wins and 19 losses...and in a current state of disarray, about to implode.
I mean, I'm absolutely loving it.
And I don't feel remotely guilty, either. A Saturday parusing of the box scores and seeing the Yanks tied with the Devil Rays is a great way to start the weekend.
(P.S. Open message to the Yankees: Those of us here in Texas were used to Alex Rodriquez and his gaudy statistics being padded with meaningless home runs when the team was too far ahead/behind...and the virus he was bringing here putting our team in last place three years in a row. Let's see, he leaves here, our team goes from last to 2nd in our division, and you go from one game from the World Series to being tied with the freaking DEVIL RAYS! Coincidence? I think not.)
Basically, major league baseball is unbalanced.
A simple explanation is that there's one thing separating this league from other sports leagues is that "local" television revenues aren't divided equally among all the teams. So, for example, after the teams equally divide the money from FOX and ESPN, the local Texas Rangers can keep all the money from television revenues that local channel 27 (or FOX Sports Southwest) pays them to broadcast every game.
But the reality is that say, the Los Angeles Dodgers can keep all the money made from the revenue-rich LA area, and the Cleveland Indians get to keep the money from the Cleveland area. You can imagine the disparity.
Well, the New York Yankees make the most out of everyone...and since there isn't a limit on the amount of money a team can spend on salaries (well, there's a fee if you spend over $110 million, but few teams do that) the New York Yankees can simply purchase the very best players, and overpay them so no other teams can afford those players...hence their 27 World Series Championships.
The local Rangers payroll, if I'm not mistaken, is somewhere in the $75 million range. The Yankees, in the same league, is around $205 million.
It's unfair...but that's life, right. Life isn't fair.
Which is precisely why I can't express to you the joy of seeing the highest-paid team in baseball mired in LAST PLACE with 11 wins and 19 losses...and in a current state of disarray, about to implode.
I mean, I'm absolutely loving it.
And I don't feel remotely guilty, either. A Saturday parusing of the box scores and seeing the Yanks tied with the Devil Rays is a great way to start the weekend.
(P.S. Open message to the Yankees: Those of us here in Texas were used to Alex Rodriquez and his gaudy statistics being padded with meaningless home runs when the team was too far ahead/behind...and the virus he was bringing here putting our team in last place three years in a row. Let's see, he leaves here, our team goes from last to 2nd in our division, and you go from one game from the World Series to being tied with the freaking DEVIL RAYS! Coincidence? I think not.)
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