Yankee Bashing, Tim Brown on XM

Leading off Charley Steiner's show is Yankee payroll bashing with Tim Brown, in harmony with the flurry of articles just released on last year's top payroll. First, the point should be, $100 million will be given away in charity from the Yankee organization and its fans to other teams in revenue sharing. Isn't that a lot of money? About half again its total payroll. Who'll get that? What will be done with this fruit of others' labor? And this doesn't even include millions more in luxury tax Yankees will pay as penalty for the payroll.

• Tim Brown says the same old thing, ie the Yankees said they were going to try and get the payroll down, but we don't see it, etc. Tim should be getting more assignments across ESPN/MLB platforms.

• Tim, what if the Yankees had spent many more millions getting Santana? Would you say the Yankees are greedy and evil?

Since they haven't and may not be spending an egregious sum on Santana (an additional 40% on top of which going to luxury tax) and want to stay with the young players they've developed, isn't that an obvious sign they want to lower the payroll? Wasn't their not signing Eric Gagne another recent sign?

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