Would you turn down $40 million in free, no-strings attached money every year? If so, that explains why you’re not one of the richest men in America like Twins’ owner Carl Pohlad. Carl knows where his bread is buttered though; you think he gave his good pal Bud Selig an secret under-the-table loan two years before “revenue sharing” welfare started because he’s such a generous soul?

Most people don’t know that when NY Football Giants owner Wellington Mara voted for revenue sharing in the early 60s it was to help keep places like Pittsburgh and Green Bay in the NFL and it worked and we watched these smaller market teams go on and win championships.

What started out for parity for smaller market teams in football has become a joke in baseball.

I can see why it ticks Hank off.

I’m sorry, but you’re wrong - the amount of money confiscated from the Yankees by Bolshevik Bud’s billionaire welfare scheme isn’t based on how much money the Yankees spend - it’s based on how much money the Yankees *make*. Young Master Steinbrenner could cut his payroll to Minnesota Twins-levels, walk around the winter meetings in a barrel-and-suspenders crying poverty, and he’d *stll* be on the hook for $80 million+ every year. The only way for the Yankees to stop playing the “free money teat” to the rest of the league is for Yankee fans to stop watching the team play, stop showing up at ballgames, and stop buying team merchandise.

Compared to the shameless theft of “revenue sharing”, the few extra bucks the Yankees have stolen due to “the Yankee luxury tax” is meaningless. But the overall goal is the same - stealing Yankees dollars to cripple America’s most beloved sports franchise, and enrich the bank accounts of well-connected plutocrats in Bolshevik Bud’s circle of stooges.

It sounds like the Rays only “role” has been for the last 7 years to take a truckload of free cash from the Yankees while they both count the same number of Championship Rings while also actually stockpiling a farm system. If Hank wants some respect, he should go out and buy a team and create his own media empire like his dad did instead of inheriting and thinking he has the same right to pop off like his dad. His dad earned it, Hank hasn’t.

This isn’t a feudal system. The Yankees aren’t the Rays’ overlords. The Yankees subsidize them because Major League Baseball thought it a good idea to put a team in a state that doesn’t much care for baseball (though if the Rays are good, they might prove that statement wrong).