The Yankees are Paying these Guys?!

Opening Day 2007 and the best lineup in the game came to bat in the first inning. Talent after spectacular talent, young, cheap and talented: Tampa Bay was that much better than the Yankees in talent. Baldelli, Dukes, Upton, Crawford will someday be the the big TB machine, they are awesome talents, and the Yankees don't matchup beyond Rivera, Jeter, and Arod, they don't have the athletes that TB has. So why are the Yankees paying TB and the rest of baseball. The commissioner and his boys have pulled off one of the biggest heist/flimflams of baseball history with the Yankee tax. Forcing the Yankees to pay double for lesser talent that is thrown at Tampa and the 2--time champion Marlins is a crime. The Yankees for their part would be fair to burn up their roster and put the AAA squad out there. But Steinbrenner cares and he won't, but the Commissioner and his boys should be laughing all the way to the bank...they have even convinced the world that payroll wins titles even though the Yankees will be o-7 at the end of this season unless they can beat the rest of baseball on and off the field...most unlikely, but they, unlike TB and a few others, will try.