RED SOX NATION

There was much happiness here in “Red Sox Nation” when the Florida Marlins won the World Series. Not because the people here are Marlin fans, it’s because they hate the New York Yankees and anything that hurts the Yankees is a good thing. I personally don’t care, I hope they all loose.

What the Marlins win should do though, is stop the Red Sox fans from mooning over how big the Yankees payroll is. Every year, I hear the Sox fans crying, “Well, what do you expect? Of course their winning, look how much they pay!” or “If we could afford to pay that much, we’d be winning, too!” Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is just another canard thrown out to excuse the Red Sox from failing yet again.

A quick look at the salaries will show that the Marlins have a payroll one third of the Yankees and one half of the Red Sox. If payroll was what counted, then how come the Marlin’s were able to beat the Yankees and the Red Sox couldn’t? How have the Marlins, who have been around for only eleven years, been able to take the pennant TWICE while the Red Sox, who have been around for a million years and twice the payroll, haven’t been able to do anything in ninety years? The Red Sox have the third highest paid player in baseball, paying more for any one man than the Yankees, and they still can’t get it done? I thought it was all about salaries, salaries, salaries.