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Originally Posted by gales0678
Chuck you make it sound as this all started under geroge
was baseball un-competitve in the 20's , 30's 40' and 50's when the yanks were winning every thing in sight
weren't there teams in those decades that never had a chance either , i mean come on , yankee domination started in the 20's , had a hiccup from '64 until '76 , baseball has survived and prospered with the yankees winning in all decades
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While it is true that the yankees won a lot in the 50's and before there were only 8 teams in the AL back then, no blacks and nothing west of the Mississippi. Plus there was very little competition during that period, the NFL was not really a big league, the NHL was strictly a northern sport, there was no NBA.
The world is a different place. Sure complete parity is not the best scenario as we need teams to not only root for but root against. But when you listen to baseball conversations the big market/small market factor almost always comes up. hell one of the big reasons that Strasburg was kept in the minors so long was to delay him starting his arbitration right. Sure they get to keep him another year but you know as well as i do that if he pans out the Yankees will be siting there to snatch him up, just like they did with Sabathia and what they are going to do with Cliff lee.