I think it’s fairly safe to say that the Yankees are the Yankees of the East division of the American League. It would delight me to no end to say the Red Sox were the Yankees of the American League East, and it’s quite possible in the next decade they may do so, but for now, the Yankees are the Yankees of the American League East.
The order of money spent is: New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The order of winning records goes as follows: New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The AL-East does a much better job of representing the “paying for a wins” concept than the AL-Central.
Because of this seeming relationship in money for win, the “dollars per win” calculation wasn’t surprising at all, in that it was a direct correlation between the amount of total money spent. The Yankees led the way with $1,702,027 per win, have six division wins, one World Series win, and two World Series losses; they also won the Wild Card once. The Red Sox, with their one division win, three wild cards, and two World Series wins, spent $1,289,794 per regular season win. The Baltimore Orioles fans paid $1,016,928 per regular season win , the Toronto Blue Jays paid $810,380 per win, and the Tampa Bay Devil* Rays paid $517,493. None of those teams has seen post-season play since the year 2000.
Per person, the fans of each game paid: $43.93 for the Yankees, $42.55 for the Red Sox, $32.72 for the Blue Jays, $27.92 for the Orioles, and $26.78 for the Devil Rays.
The AL-East spent over one billions dollars more than the American League Central, has two more World Series wins, and has a regular season win percentage of approximately 1.6% higher.
And, really, of all the teams to have bad blood during the year, who would’ve guessed it was the Devil* Rays and Yankees?
The Timberwolves are 14-44, meaning they played .500 ball since my last report! The competitions between the Timberwolves and the 11-52 Miami Heat is falling apart, as the Heat went 0-5 in that time. In lacrosse, the Swarm were defeated again last weekend so they have a 6-3 record; what happened to them? And dictionaries everywhere will now have a picture of the Minnesota Wild next to their definition of “Frustrating”.
In the most distressing news, it seems as if Scott Baker may start the year on the disabled list, due to some back muscle soreness. I think I’ll have to go on the DL myself and take a vacation to Cancun to get over this.
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