Fans of other playoff baseball teams are making a case for you to support their colors, so I’ll make mine. It’s quite simple, really:
Total payroll of 2011 MLB playoff teams
New York Yankees $202,689,028
Philadelphia Phillies $172,976,379
Detroit Tigers $105,700,231
St. Louis Cardinals $105,433,572
Texas Rangers $92,299,264
Milwaukee Brewers $85,497,333
Arizona Diamondbacks $53,639,833
Tampa Bay Rays $41,053,571
How many Tampa Bay Rays players can you name? Two? Three? No matter.
As my pal notfunnyfunny said last night, Joe Maddon is the MacGuyver of baseball. Give him any nine guys and he’ll figure out a way to make them competitive.
How can you not like that?
