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New York Yankees (27x World Series Champions)

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Jake;1477089; said:
Once again, the keen Yankee management has found talent where no one else could see it and pieced together a winning team. Sure, the base salaries for this season of Teixeira, Sabathia, Jeter and Rodriguez add up to more than the entire payroll of half the teams in the league, but it isn't money that is building a winner (or enabling them to keep their home grown guys). It's shrewd talent evaluation. No one else saw the hidden abilities of those guys, not to mention AJ Burnett. Only the Yankees knew, and that supreme baseball knowledge is paying dividends on the field.

Speaking of dividends, it's a damn good thing they got over $500 million from taxpayers to finance their new billion dollar stadium otherwise they'd probably be playing in an abandoned lot somewhere. I just hope they can afford to pay that $26 million luxury tax, approximately 3% of the total of four contracts (Sabathia, Teixeira, Jeter, ARod).

I think I'll do my part by looking into buying some $2600 tickets when the Royals come to town.
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If there's a god the $500 million mercenaries will piss down their legs in the playoffs. Better still, that meteor we keep hoping to hit the big house when scUM-ND play each other could hit the House New York Taxpayers built when the Bosox come to town for the ALCS, lest we hear about the "greatest rivalry in sports that was one-sided as hell for 90 years" ad nauseum.
 
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A-Rod News From The 'You Can't Make This Stuff Up' Department... - Alex Rodriguez - Deadspin
 
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Who says money can't buy happiness? All it takes is $423 million in new salaries, and $1.2 billion in tax-exempt municipal bonds. :roll2:
 
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What I don't understand is all the stock that is put into prospects. Can anyone tell me the last time that an AllStar was let go in return for "some prospects" and those prospects ended up becoming all stars themselves?

My gut tells me it hasn't happened much.
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1616588; said:
I'm guessing the last time it happened, the Indians were somehow involved :p
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Well the Bartolo Colon for Cliff Lee, Grady Sizemore, and Brandon Phillips trade
was great for the Indians on paper in terms of getting prospects for an established guy...of course Lee was let go when he finally got good, Phillips became an all-star for someone else, and Sizemore, well, isn't a guy you'd now have coffee with :sick1:, but hey, on paper it looked great :lol:
 
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