fuzzis
12-09-2007, 03:27 PM
Huge payrolls putting AL in league of its own (http://www.denverpost.com/popular/ci_7673878)
...Pulling a piece of black luggage almost as big as himself, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman rushed out of the Opryland Resort on Thursday, pulling the curtain on the winter meetings.
If baseball had a sense of humor, he would have boarded a limousine as National League GMs hailed taxis. The discrepancy between the leagues has rarely been more obvious. Just follow the money. The American League has become Microsoft; the NL, a mom and pop shop.
The key numbers in looking back to last season: 92 and 72. In millions those were the average payrolls of the AL and the NL, respectively....
...Pulling a piece of black luggage almost as big as himself, Yankees general manager Brian Cashman rushed out of the Opryland Resort on Thursday, pulling the curtain on the winter meetings.
If baseball had a sense of humor, he would have boarded a limousine as National League GMs hailed taxis. The discrepancy between the leagues has rarely been more obvious. Just follow the money. The American League has become Microsoft; the NL, a mom and pop shop.
The key numbers in looking back to last season: 92 and 72. In millions those were the average payrolls of the AL and the NL, respectively....