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by TOXIC ASSETS » Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:57 pm
This is the 2010 payroll for all teams.
1 New York Yankees 206,738,389
2 Boston Red Sox 160,913,333
3 Chicago Cubs 146,609,000
4 Philadelphia Phillies 142,728,379
5 New York Mets 136,022,942
6 Detroit Tigers 122,864,928
7 Chicago White Sox 105,530,000
8 Los Angeles Angels 104,161,666
9 San Francisco Giants 98,586,333
10 Los Angeles Dodgers 95,358,016
11 St. Louis Cardinals 93,940,751
12 Houston Astros 92,355,500
13 Minnesota Twins 90,309,166
14 Seattle Mariners 86,910,000
15 Atlanta Braves 84,423,666
16 Colorado Rockies 83,172,000
17 Baltimore Orioles 81,202,500
18 Milwaukee Brewers 81,108,278
19 Tampa Bay Rays 72,323,471
20 Kansas City Royals 71,405,210
21 Cincinnati Reds 68,200,542
22 Washington Nationals 62,349,000
23 Toronto Blue Jays 61,484,400
24 Cleveland Indians 60,778,966
25 Florida Marlins 55,239,500
26 Texas Rangers 55,168,114
27 Oakland Athletics 50,839,900
28 Arizona Diamondbacks 48,452,166
29 San Diego Padres 38,199,300
30 Pittsburgh Pirates 34,933,000
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The numbers say it all, or at least most of it. The Royals GM should be pounded into silly putty on these boards. With a payroll not near the bottom --- another terrible team took the field in 2010. Look at some of the teams BELOW the Royals in payroll....Rangers (made the World Series), Reds (division winner), Marlins (competitive year after year), A's (many good finishes since Billy Beane took over as GM). Meanwhile the Royals play terrible baseball every single year (if my memory is right, I think the last time they made the playoffs was 1985 when they won the series). The Pirates are another joke, they never should have given them a brand new ballpark. They should have build ONE ballpark in Pittsburgh for the Steelers only since Pittsburgh may be the BEST football town in America and possibly the WORST baseball town.
And I don't recall ripping Towers. I have ripped Hendry on occasion, but he has made some good moves to go along with the bad. 
