The Yankees just signed Mark Teixeira to an 8-year, $180 million contract adding to the great Yankee spending spree of 2008. Hank Steinbrenner has begun to blow his family's fortune and spending it like it's Monopoly money. Between AJ Burnett, CC Sabathia and Tex, the Yankees have spent a half BILLION dollars on THREE players. Two of which, only play once every five days.
Add that to Alex Rodriquez's salary as the highest paid player in the history of professional sports and the Yankees have made a mockery of America's past time. And Bud Selig sits by and does nothing.
The Yankees are proving it only takes deep pockets to win and nothing more. It's this kind of absurdity that has soured me and millions more on baseball. It is an absolute joke. Baseball needs an NBA-type salary cap instead of a league of haves and have nots. But that will never happen because Bud Selig does not have the cojones to go after the player's union.
It's December and football is wrapping up and I'm already done with baseball. Sigh. I thought we were in "the worst economic crisis of a generation" according to the media. But nobody told Hank Steinbrenner about this, I guess.
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yankees, mark teixeira, cc sabathia, aj burnett, alex rodgriguez, hank steinbrenner