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You own the Pittsburgh Pirates. Your team stinks. You want to turn it into the Yankees. Do you have your players work longer hours for less pay? Add lots of tes
by chrismealy 14y ago
You own the Pittsburgh Pirates. Your team stinks. You want to turn it into the Yankees. Do you have your players work longer hours for less pay? Add lots of testing? Go after the players' union? Or do you just do what the Yankees do, and pay more for better players?
- adventured 14y agoYou're already the Yankees. You pay far more than everybody else, and you're not winning enough to justify the vast expenditures. The only thing keeping your franchise afloat is a media network that pays for it all (tax payers endlessly subsidizing horrific teaching results despite the highest pay scale in the developed world). And who in their right mind would want to be the Yankees? You pay two times too much for all your players, and almost never win a championship because of it. You've got A-Rod, a broken down disaster that you pay $30+ million per year for, that you bought because you were foolishly trying to buy a championship instead of building a real team. The Pirates get more wins per dollars spent. The Pirates won a mere 16 less games (17% less than NYY), but paid roughly 66% less for that performance. And if you want to talk raw winning. Let's talk the Cincinnati Reds. They won two more games than the Yankees, with 55% less payroll. While other teams with half the payroll take home the world series title year after year, the Yankees might be lucky to eek out one title every ten years, and pay $2 billion dollars for it.