With Their Payroll The Yankees Should Win Every Year
The New York Yankees have long been esteemed and regarded as baseball royalty. How many pennants have they won? Is it twenty-six World Series titles or twenty seven? Their level of success is absurd. The New York Yankees, however, are no fun to watch. They lack the type of spirit and workhorse magic that other baseball teams inspire. Every single year the Yankees have the highest payroll in the major leagues; it tops off somewhere above 200 million dollars. How is that a level playing field? Most teams have a tiny fraction of that amount. The New York Yankees can afford the best talent; they can outbid other teams, and lure players with the promise of outrageous contracts and paychecks. A 200 million dollar payroll should be enough to ensure a World Series ring every year. But that is not how baseball works. The Yankees are smug, elite, and entitled, but just because your baseball team has money does not mean it has passion and spirit. The Yankees are a passionless team. Do the Yankees even have fans outside the 5 boroughs? The pinstripes once stood for tradition, but
their current bloated payroll has diminished the power of their legacy.