The league never ever should have let George Steinbrenner back into Baseball and should have made him sell the franchise. He was nothing but a greedy crook.
“He was nothing but a greedy crook.”
I don’t fault Steinbrenner for what he did. If the league is not going to do anything about it when it had to dawn on them that their rule didn’t have sharp enough teeth to stop what he was doing and he was willing to go through the paperwork so he could ignore the rule, then it really turns into a shame on me.
And now with the intervention of so many secondary TV markets to go with ABC, Fox, and whoever gets the playoffs and world series, the revenues are immense for those that can market their teams to a large market like the northeast with the Yankees, and some Red Sox pandering.
But this is just the tip of the iceberg as all sports have learned how to stock their rosters, build their massive cathedrals, and price products to acceptable to get the cash cow to support a small group of people with more money than most will see in a lifetime, yearly. They change rules, they alter the surface, they change equipment, and they create drama to mesmerize the money (fans) so they can soak every drop of it. And they hire announcers to blather their idiocy over the airways to trap the listener into thinking they know what they are doing and buy what they are smelling. And the ritual continues with each generation. Hero hypnotism at it’s best. (Or worst)
rwood