It would have been nice to put the abominable race card games of Dems behind us, but here we go again in 2009.  And that suggests we're going to see this game played for at least the next four years.  That will set back race relations, gender relations, and thus, the country.  

The thing is, most if not all of the franchises - even the ones which lose games all the time - are a license to print money, reegardless of the quality of the game put on the field.  It's an example of "you'll eat what we serve you and like it, particularly if you don't know there's anything better".  (They make money in ways unimaginable. Stepping to the side - did you know that press box journalists at Washington Redskins games have to pay for internet access:  $80 for one game, $250 for the season's games?  To plug in to the internet (apparently, no wireless....).)

With one owner like Steinbrenner - who is willing to spend the GNP of a small European country for a new pitcher - driving up labor (player) prices, the other owners either have to meet him in that market, or gather together to impose a luxury tax on him.  Many of them take their revenue sharing and send it directly to their own pockets rather than invest it in better player development and the like. That doesn't stop them from loving it when the Yankees come to town b/c they know they will sell out and they can charge premium prices for those games.  But they don't want to compete in the labor market on anything approaching a level field.