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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Thursday, December 22, 2022Steinbrenner: Cohen’s spending should be ‘looked at’
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Posted: December 22, 2022 at 09:03 AM | 27 comment(s)
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1. pikepredator Posted: December 22, 2022 at 09:29 AM (#6110509)And no AL/NL Central club should kvetch, as it sure as heck doesn't require Stevie $ to win either of those divisions.
I understand what he is getting at here, but for a group that has a documented history of proven collusion allegations, this seems like a really bad way to say this!
At least he didn't say this (from The Athletic):
A system...but it's not collusion!
Have Mets fans not experienced enough of exactly this to cut us some slack for a few years?
Has this really been true for the Mets recently? I don't think it has since about 2003. The team has won at least 70 games every year since then. There hasn't been any year where we didn't have some reasonable thoughts of being in playoff range.
Nope. And I've been rooting for the Mets the last 7-8 years or so. It's harder now.
You make it sound like the Yankees are some cornerstone of altruistic behaviour by being such good guys and not blowing the likes of the Pirates and A's out of the water by spending too much? That's a crock of sh*t. They didn't spend over the top because they think they can field a competitive team by not spending way over the top and can pocket the profits. They sure as hell did NOT spend heaps out of some sort of honourable consideration.
Also I find it hard to believe that 30 billionaires are "dumb as doorknobs." You can call these owners many, many unflattering things, I don't think dumb is really one of them.
It seems dumb to include the luxury tax amounts when people talk about the Mets payroll. They’re not spending more than double everyone else on actual player salaries, which is the most relevant metric when talking about issues like competitive balance.
The Yankees, for good or bad, have played within the boundaries of what has been acceptable to the majority of MLB owners. Cohen has just blown through those boundaries, and has done so without any reservations or qualms.
The Yankees have *set* the boundaries.
They're concerned because the Mets are acting uppity.
But the Yankees were starting to spend big and likely to spend a lot in the next few years.
Now the Mets have blown past the previous boundary by about 50% (depending on how you do the math).
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