I seem to have ruffled penchief's pompous east coast feathers a bit.
This thread is about cheaters and unfair advantages. Seriously, how can you have a conversation about cheaters and unfair advantages in baseball WITHOUT talking about the Yankees? Tell us again how a small market team can drop $200,000,000 on payroll and not go broke? When was the last time the Yankees had to worry about another team plucking one of their young home-grown stars when his rookee contract expired because they couldn't afford to keep him? I'm sorry, but dropping payroll from $210,000,000 to $200,000,000 doesn't really mean all that much when you're still about $70,000,000 up on your next closest rival.
Mainly I'm just pointing out that a Yankee fan crying about inequity is the height of hypocrisy. You keep crying about McGwire breaking Maris's record in 1998, but what good did it do him or his team in the long run? The record has long since been broken, and the Cardinals didn't even make the playoffs that year. Gee, refresh my memory - what squad of juicers did win the World Series in 1998? I'll bet you know the answer to that one, don't you? I don't think that trophy going to get melted down in the name of fairness anytime soon, is it?
And I'm not the one dropping butthurts all over the place, Mr. You're Making It Personal.
But we can do that if you want.
Buddy.