Now that the Yankee nation is again blown away at the cruelty of life not letting their "Most-Expensive-Team-Money-Can-Buy" play on, the talking heads are saying A-Rod needs to go elsewhere.
Who in the world can take on a 3B/SS for $25,000,000 per year? Maybe Exxon, maybe a mid-eastern oil magnate, but no other team can even come close to being able to put that kind of money on one player. To make it conceivable, Steinbummer would have to eat perhaps as much as $12 million a year for someone to take him off their hands. But with the ability to pay $200,000,000 per year (that's $1,212,121.22 per game), just for payroll, 12 mil comes out to 6% and they'd do it in a heartbeat.
Hats off to the Yankee organization for showing baseball naysayers that one can spend all the money they want, for all the superstar players they want, but you can't buy "team chemistry" at any price, even Balco doesn't sell that, and that might be the most important ingredient for success in this wonderful game.
Bless the Tigers; is there any team more fun to watch? Does "For the Love of The Game" sound like a good title for their highlight film, however far they go?
(And they give hope that just maybe someday the O's can get there...)
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