Sports commentators are whining today about the Yankee’s signing of A-Rod that will likely put their payroll this season at > $200 million. Oh, it’s horrible for the game — the rest of those poor teams just can’t compete.
But wait a second — didn’t a team that had an opening day payroll of < $50 million win the 2003 World Series by handily defeating the dreaded Yankees?
Maybe other teams can’t compete with the Yankees sky-high payroll, but they can compete by outsmarting George Steinbrenner’s brute force approach to baseball domination.