Baseball Chat

[Linchuck]

Well, here is a guy from a from a team you have respect for. See how he feels about it. He said the teams have gotton over a billion from it. But what does he know about it either.

Since the system was set up in the late 1990s, wealthier clubs like the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox have complained that small-market teams that remained mired in last place have not been using their revenue-sharing money as designed. John Henry, the managing principal owner of the Red Sox, told The Boston Globe late last year in an e-mail message that “over a billion dollars has been paid to seven chronically uncompetitive teams, five of whom have had baseball’s highest operating profits. Who, except these teams, can think this is a good idea?”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/sports/baseball/13marlins.html