The best team money could buy (sportsillustrated.cnn.com)

Heh, I was just arguing with a friend who claimed that the Yankees winning was one of the few "successes" of capitalism this year. I quickly pointed out how inefficient they are as a team (using payroll/championships as the metric) and what they accomplished can hardly be considered a success.

And how is this to be corrected? The LA market is pretty huge, but Angelenos seem to have many things to distract them from sports. Chicago is a big market, and there was a stretch when one of the ownership groups was rolling in cable money, but that never produced a win.

Maybe we could force the Yankees to sell to Dan Snyder, the Washington Redskins' owner? He seems to reproduce many of the traits that George Steinbrenner brought, once upon a time, to destroying the Yankees' efficiency.

we should also punish google and apple and microsoft and oracle for spending too much money to achieve success. jerks.