You take one trade, and use it as proof positive there's no "competitive balance problem"?
You're blind. Everyone seems to realize this except you and George Steinbrenner. Even Bud Selig in an interview last week in the Sporting News calls a spade a spade:
"[W]e have a competitive-balance problem. I do believe the game has had this remarkable renaissance. Even with attendance down, we're going to draw 70 million people, which is great. But there's a competitive-balance problem and economic problems related to that."
You must be from New York; that's the only explanation I can think of for your continuing myopia.
ROFLMAO.
I'm from Maryland; I hate every NY sports team.
In case you haven't noticed, Bud Selig is both an incompetent boob and a serial liar with a record of falsehood that even Yassir Arafat, Worldcom, Enron, and Arthur Andersen could envy. I can't believe anyone purporting to know anything about baseball would use a Selig quote to bolster an argumement; simply priceless.
The only people who take Selig remotely seriously are clueless and uneducated-about-economics sportwriters and sports talk radio hosts, and the coterie of fans that blindly believe and parrot what they're spoon-fed in their local paper and on the radio.
http://www.baseballprospectus. com/news/20020320pappas.shtml
Good article, I suggest you read it, and everything else Baseball Prospectus writes...real eye opener. I've noticed there's a direct correlation with intelligence and education level, and utter conptempt for Bud Selig.
Duplicitious talk coming from the former owner of a small market (And Profitable) Team.