It's over!!

[Oeditpus Rex]

7. Baseball has been like that since 1869

How do you think the Cincinnati Red Stockings won 81 straight games over that year and the next? They lured the best players from other clubs by paying evey one of them, the first ball club ever to do that.

(They also realized close to zero rofits because owbers/backers had tyet to come up wth ways to make money other than charging 50 cents admission, and splitting even that with the club they were playing. Also, so many of their games were on the road -- few other clubs could afford to travel then -- and the costs of transportation, hotels and meals, plus salaries, really added up.)

Point being, baseball has been a business ever since then. It's always been about "the best team money can buy."

Thing is, though, you can spend all the money in the world on the best players, but you can't make them be a ball club. You can't buy spirit, moxie, fuck-you-guys for them; they have to develop that, and it's necessary to win. History has shown it time and again.