Kevin Baxter, Miami Herald, says Marlins players make under $500,000

Kevin says no Marlins player will earn over $500,000, with the exception of Dontrelle Willis, who's arbitration eligible. The team has virtually no media money or stadium revenues---few teams could survive under these circumstances. Which makes Loria and his pals at MLB very big gamblers. They moved a mountain, won the World Series, and did it all thinking they'd get a stadium. They didn't figure that politics in MLB don't translate into the real world. Baxter says David Samson has very bad relationships with state politicians, and gee, why should the politicians not give them money "just because they don't like Samson." Well, I hope that's not the case, but if it is, it happens every day in the real world. Baxter also points out that the Miami Heat had spotty attendance before they got Shaquille, & that even when the Dolphins were good, they weren't sold out.

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