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Old 11-05-2009, 12:11 PM   #229 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by marc View Post
The point was that those teams do it and fall flat on their collective faces every year so it's not nearly as simple as spending a bunch of money.

Yankees have also gotten smarter. Previously they overspent on past their prime players. This year they went out and got 2 players in their prime.(CC+Tex) Lets not penalize the Yankees for being able to generate more revenue than other teams lets just make sure the bottom feeders are trying their best to field a winner. Slotting in the amatuer draft and a international draft.

Being able to bring in the top amatuer players without the excuse of having to pay an unproven player so much money would give the sorry asses no excuse for being uncompetitive for 15 straight years.
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