Number 28

It is a numbers game, and not that idiotic thing about the Yankee payroll, buying a pennant.  This shows the power of the big lie.  Bud Selig's family owns a small market team.  I think he wanted to justify taking easy money from the Yankees and giving it to small market teams including his family's team.  So they invented this idiotic fiction about buying titles, because the highest paid players always win, or even usually win.  They taxed one team...the Yankees, took their money and gave it to other teams.

So then we watch nameless college stud one after the other come into Yankee Stadium and shut down the high priced Yankees, with our own eyes we watch the Yankees dynasty crumbled by a team, the Marlins, whose payroll equaled maybe three Yankees' players salaries.  They beat the stuffing out of the Yanks.  Watch a decade of 200 million payrolls produce NNNAAADDDDDAAA; and still this idiotic idea persists, well I guess there are people who will believe anything they are told.

This numbers game is about hitters and competition- count them-- there are some big RBI men available, any team that needs one can have one this year Mattt Holliday, Vlad, Chone Figgins, Jason bay, Nady, Damon, Matsui, and many more.  Baltimore...two hitters away from equaling the Red Sox as the best hitting team---here's Vlad Guererro and Adrian Beltre, see you in the playoffs, ...ohh-not quite, well add Randy Wolf, Rich Harden and you already have Guthrie and some good young arms.  Need relief ...the lefty Gonzalez, the closer Billy Wagner.  This is the case for every team this off season.  Even Boston cannot horde all the good hitters as they did last year with pitchers: Byrd, Smoltz, Penny,  when they already had Bucholtz, Lester, Matsusaka, Beckett, and the big eternal knuckle ball...anyway the point is there are a bunch of big hitters out there, and the Yankees wont be bidding on any of them, so the rest of the teams will have to do something besides complain about NY's payroll, and this year..they cannot help but get better, even those like Baltimore that seemed determined not to get better. Toronto should trade Roy Halladay for the ransom in prospects and become the Tampa Bay north...awash in splendid young talent.  This year the Yanks have won and have only a few maybe one opening on the starting lineup...a pitcher behind CC and AJ and a reliever...in front of Rivera.

Whatever happens in the free agent market this year, will probably not involve the Yankees.