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For years now i've wondered why teams like the Yankees have such blind loyalty from their fans. If my team had a payroll around the 200 million a year mark and didn't dominate every season, I would have to question if they really know what they are doing. Sure the Yankees are the most marketable sports franchise in the world, but what does that have to do with BASEBALL. Nothing. That's just the business side. I'm a sports fan, not a marketing major. Wins are all that matters to me.
Now being a Phillies fan, it's not like I have seen the greatest baseball in my life, but at least we can say that we haven't been trying to buy pennants. (See Red Sox). If all teams were on a level playing field like the rest of professional sports, the Yankees and Red Sox mystique would not exist the way it does. Why would anyone in Royals land care about baseball when they KNOW that they can never compete with those teams?
I am sure in the end that the only team that's in first now will finish there are the Diamondbacks. I just don't see the other teams hanging in there the whole way.
The only way to beat the big money teams is to build through the draft, which is how my Phillies are winning games now. Once Chase Utley, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, and Cole Hamels are all making veteran money, at least two of them won't be wearing red pinstripes, they will be blue i'm sure. We can't match what the Yankees have to offer. That's really a shame.
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