Someone will have to check these stats, but given the team payrolls over number of wins, each win cost the noble Twins, having a payroll of some 63 million, around 704k. Each win cost the A’s (62 mil) about 707k. Each win cost the Motor City Kitties (83 mil) about 912k. Each W cost the ChiSox (103 mil) about 1.2 mil. And, the hated Yankees (194 mil) spent some 2.1 million per victory.
Twins 704k per W
Yanks 2.1m per W
It cost the hated Yankees almost three times as much to win as it did the noble Twins.
Yet another reason to root for the Twins and to hate the Yankees.
Roger Kahn famously asked how anyone could root for the Yankees — “It’s like rooting for U.S. Steel.”
The line didn’t work in Pittsburgh, of course, where people actually were rooting for U.S. Steel.
Doesn’t work too well here in NY either. :)
It could be worse. You could be like me and be a fan of the Texas Rangers, who have spent how much money in the history of the team and never won the World Series?
There are not a hundred people in America who
hate the Yankees. There are millions of people
who hate what they wrongly believe to be the
Yankees which is, of course, quite a different
thing.
But, Yankeeness being next to godliness, the
Yankees and we Yankee lovers forgive you.
Pax and pinstripes,
Gadfly