The Yankees Are In Full-Fledged Freefall

[jingram058]

Originally Posted by John1941

Take the Pirates. From a USA Today article: "The Pittsburgh Pirates, according to information received by the players union and confirmed by several owners, are one of the most profitable teams in all of baseball, stashing a huge chunk of their revenue sharing monies instead of investing in their team year after year." https://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...s/83556338007/

The Pirates' owner treats the team as a cash cow. Result: the Pirates have a 29-45 record and all of their stars like Skenes and Oneil Cruz will leave when they can because the Pirates will refuse to spend the money necessary to keep them.

How must that feel as a Pirate fan, for your owner to care only about making a profit and not about having a winning team? How is that not unfortunate for baseball?

"Building a team the old fashioned way" implies these cheap teams are trying to build a winning team. They're not.

Boy do I agree with this assessment. It shouldn't be allowed to persist, year in and year out. The Pirates haven't been truly competitive since the 1990s. Neither have the Reds. Now that the Dodgers have become what the Yankees once were, why don't the haters aim their wrath toward them? Seems misplaced to waste it on the Yankees.