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Rob Reed^3427
Re: Perhaps the beginning of the end of the current way of business in baseball?  Yankees sign Teixeira for 8 years, $180 million <FONT COLOR=BLACK><b>[</font>Reply to #<a href="read.pl?1-5671">5671</a>]</b>
12/27/08, 9:52pm
>The Yanks have always overspent on players and always will. 
>Doesn't mean they automatically get the trophy.  So why should
>anyone be upset about their free spending ways?  Gives you
>more motivation to root against them.  Besides, if I were a
>Pirates (Royals, etc.) fan, I'd be more upset that the Pirates
>owner pockets all the revenue sharing cash and refuses to make
>his team competitive.

I wouldn't get upset at those KC and Pitt owners.  Consider the circumstance... why even bother to participate when you;ll just end up with egg on face, because you'll never have enough to outbid the aggressor.

A salary cap is absolutely necessary, in my humble opinion. :)

[Rob Reed from Sylmar/CA]
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