I want to go on record before next year’s baseball season to point out to the untrained eye what is currently happening. The Red Sox just bought their team for next year. They made Carl Crawford the highest paid outfielder EVER. They acquired Adrian Gonzalez with the assumption that he will receive of the the top 10 highest contracts EVER after the season starts (to avoid luxury tax).

Now don’t hear what I’m not saying: I’m not mad that they did this. In fact, I think it was brilliant and I’m quite nervous for what this means as a Yankee fan. What I am saying is that they just did (in grand fashion) what the Yankees get accused of endlessly.

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For anyone who remotely enjoys the game of baseball, this video is incredible!

Thanks Landon for sending this to me!

I want to accurately inform you, if you are taking the time to read this, of the latest happenings with the New York Yankees. If you don’t care about baseball, feel free to stop reading now. However, if you are in the other 98% of the U.S. that hate the Yankees then you owe it to yourself to be informed of the real facts.

The Yankees have been very productive this off-season by signing Teixeira, Sabathia, Burnett, and Swisher. Now, this creates them the team that they need to compete in their division. People are eager to point out that the Yankees now have the four highest paid players in all of baseball. Which, I’ll admit, may look very bad. I have already been harassed relentlessly about this and how the Yankees are trying to “buy the championship” again. However, please read this article to see the entire story. I add a few highlights below that accurately paint the picture. This is a brilliant staffing move, and I will argue that any fan would be excited about if it were their team. And, as I’ve always argued, the Yankees are good for baseball. Would you rather have an owner that puts money back into his team to invest in the game itself, or an owner who takes as much profit as he can without putting it back into his team? We need more teams like the Yankees.

“Don’t forget that the Yankees this winter shed from the payroll high-salary guys like Jason Giambi, Mike Mussina, Bobby Abreu, Andy Pettitte (likely to return but at a lower base salary), and Carl Pavano. Add it all up, and they’ve sloughed off almost $80 million. Once the full details on Teixeira’s deal are known, it’s likely that his 2008 salary along with the annual salaries of CC Sabathia, A.J. Burnett, and Nick Swisher will amount to between $70-75 million. Even the liberal-arts majors among us can figure out that’s not an increase.”

“But the Yankees can’t be blamed for baseball’s structural inequities. The Steinbrenners’ obligations are to win games and make money. That Major League Baseball provides them so much latitude to do so is the fault of MLB, not the Yankees.”