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Originally Posted by CardinalMan
Sorry, I stopped reading here. This is why I dislike Red Sox fans, they accuse the Yanks of "buying" championships when their team tries to do the exact same thing, difference being the Sox fail miserably. Only two teams in MLB have $100+ million dollar payrolls and they're both playing in this series. Sorry Sox fans you no longer have the moral high ground, you can't complain about the Yankees payroll when you're everybit as guilty as they are.
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It's true that the Red Sox have the second highest payroll in MLB in 2004, but that's not typically the case. In 2003, for example, the Red Sox had the 5th highest payroll (just $3m more than the Cardinals!).
It is certainly true that there are big revenue teams and small revenue teams, and I can understand resentment from small revenue teams towards the ones with more money. But the Red Sox are by no means signficantly richer than Texas, LA, the Mets, Atlanta, St. Louis, Anaheim, etc. And the Yankees are simply in a totally different category from everyone else. The resentment comes not from the notion that the Yankees are "throwing money" around and that is somehow immoral, it's that the Yankees are operating at an unfair advantage over every single othe team in the league. Every single year, they can afford to sign the best available players at whatever position they need help at. Sure the Sox can pay Manny Ramirez, and a team like Anaheim can sign Vlad, but they can't make a multiple moves like that every single year like the Yankees can.