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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
It has nothing to do with their Winning history....Its because they own one of the Biggest Media Outlets (YES Network) in one of the Biggest Sports Markets (think Merchendising) in the Country.
Plenty of great talent comes out of all the Cities in the country, but the problem is that the markets are so small they can't possibly generate the revenue to compete financially with the Yank-mees. They can afford to keep maybe 1 or 2 high level athletes but thats it....come free-agency no matter what they offer it can get trumped by the yanks...who don't bat an eye at an extra 10 mil.
Teams in other big sports markets can keep up to some degree(i.e. the Sox, Phillies) but even their total salaries were 65-75 million less than the Yanks.
Its now become where the bottom 10-12 teams are now pretty much the farm system for the higher tier teams and the yanks are at the top of the food chain and have money to burn.
Steinbrenner and Boras have ruined baseball
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I don't agree with you ! If what your saying is true how come the Dodgers don't win ??? They are in a major market and their owner has plenty of $$$
Like him or hate him, George Steinbrenner has been a better business man that most of the other owners and he puts his $ back into his team
(unlike our Bruins owner)