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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

There are four other teams with payrolls greater than $100 million - Boston, the Angels, White Sox, and Mets. There are five more with payrolls greater than $90 million - Dodgers, Cubs, Astros, Braves and Giants.

So of nine teams with payrolls greater than $90 million, it looks like three of them - the Yanks, Mets, and Dodgers - will make the postseason.

You're right. All it takes is a high payroll to have a winning baseball team. Ask the Red Sox, Angels, White Sox, Cubs, Astros, Braves, and Giants, who will all watch the postseason on television.

Look, a Yankee hater will always be a Yankee hater; there's nothing I can say that would convince someone to change their mind about that. But to make comments about the Yankees buying their playoff berth when their success this season was driven by home-grown guys, and to make comments that Bernie Williams and Derek Jeter would be nobody's if they weren't in New York, well, comments like that are just plain silly.

-Al