Just ask those faithful few up in Montreal.
Baseball has a burgeoning disaster on its hands as fewer and fewer teams can afford to assemble a contending team. Each year a couple more teams get defined as "small market." A couple more teams become fodder for the Bronx Bombers.
I even heard some dim wits on WEEI, Boston's wanna-be WFAN, refer to the Red Sox, with the fifth-highest payroll in baseball last year, in such terms.
As the list grows, more teams will have a difficult time offering their fans a good reason to come to the park.
Back in the Golden Era of the 1950s, when New York teams won every year as well, the national pastime at least offered innocence and a wholesome atmosphere parents could afford to take their kids to often.
"I finally got you," Steinbrenner reportedly told Clemens upon the consumation of the deal.
He got him because he always gets what he wants. He got him because one headline is more important than the viability of five lesser franchises.
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