Newsday's Wallace Matthews joins the ranks of YankeeOrg-Haters with his criticism of the signing of Mark Texiera. As with others of his ilk, he misses the point...MLB is a BUSINESS, pure and simple, and the Yankees are among the FEW successful businesses in the country today. The attractive lease arrangements, tax breaks, Bond issues, seemingly favorable Stadium funding for the Yankees (and Mets) are all good business for New York. The Yankees provide a solid entertainment venue year after year, with record attendance figures. Who says a family can't afford to go to a game? It's a luxury item akin to a Broadway show with its transportation costs and a dinner afterwards. The same families bemoaning the costs of Baseball games probably have one or two newer-model cars in the driveway that they can't afford either.
The Yankees also provide MILLIONS in revenue-sharing dollars to other teams, whose owners don't buy free agents, but instead buy houses or airplanes. A succesful business puts its money back into itself.
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What kind of idiot writes that kind of stuff? Pro-Yankee opinions are not allowed on the internet. Don't you know that? It's much safer to kill the Yanks...hell, Mike Lupica has made a career out of it, the little weasel.
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