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Originally Posted by JL8Jeff
Yankees will single handedly destroy baseball if MLB doesn't put some form of cap on things.
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The Yankees have so much money for one reason, the fans. It's not the Yankees fault that nobody goes to Oakland games, or that the Orioles ownership can't figure out how to run a team, or that the owners of the Marlins don't want to invest money in the team and own it just for their own personal amusement. Yankee fans support their team. They go to the games, buy the shirts, buy the videos, etc. They then turn around and invest that money into the team by signing big name players. The Yankees actual do more for other teams in baseball than MLB does in many ways. They refuse to take any money from the MLB team funds, and in turn, put money IN to the fund so that other teams can have more money to spend how they see fit.
And it's not the Yankees fault with the whole salary nonsense with everybody making a zillion dollars, that goes back to the player's strike of '94, where they complained about salaries being too low, free agency, etc. Blame MLB for caving in and letting these crybabies become billionaires.