The 1997 Florida Marlins
In our last episode we talked about teams that spend way too much money on player’s salaries like the New York Yankees who haven’t even been to the World Series since 2003 and haven’t won one since 2000. Now let’s take a look at the bottom feeders of Major League Baseball. We’ll use the Florida Marlins as our example for today. The Marlins won the World Series back in 1997, having a payroll right around 47.7 million dollars. This was 7th in spending for salaries that season, not bad considering they weren’t even the favorites that season to win it all, the Cleveland Indians were.
However, the following season they dropped from spending that 47.7 million to spending just over 33 million, by the year 2000 not only were most of those players gone that helped win that World Series in 97 but the payroll had dropped to 19.8 million and they were 2nd to last in the league in total player spending. However, in 2003 that all changed again when the Marlins jumped back up to over 48 million in salary and of course won the World Series that year. Now the Marlins are right at the bottom only putting in a measly $ 21,811,500 for their entire team and then only getting what they claim they could afford. They even let their fans know that they were going to not contend for a championship this year but yet kept ticket prices the same. The Yankees spent $209,081,577 this season and are the top spending team this year, the Marlins didn’t even spend a fourth of what the Yankees did. In this day and age with revenue sharing it is a wonder how teams still get away with claiming that they aren't making money, or would do this to hold their cities hostage for a new stadium.
I hate that teams not only do this, but that they are so greedy that they are willing to let their teams go into the toilet. They don't pay for the seats for us we pay them. In any case go watch baseball but do it from the comfort of your own home and stuff the owners for ruining our game. Why should we pay $80 for one seat that isn’t that close.
Colin Cowherd on the Yankees
If it weren't for guys like Alex Rodriguez who asked for over 200 million dollars for a contract of just 10 years of play then maybe owners wouldn't do this. Although players I think are expendable and until players and owners stop being greedy don't even buy the products featured by baseball either. In fact three of the top paid players are Yankees. Jason Giambi last year made $23,428,571, Rodriquez made $22,708,000, while Derek Jeter came in third with only a mere $21,600,000. Of course it's just a game, right?
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