Sorry Lackey.

I know the argument. It sucks that the Yankees can and do spend so much, but it is what it is. I just feel that the Phillies are the better team even with the smaller payroll and with some tweaks they will be the dominant team over the Yankees. So instead of worrying what the Yankees spend the Phillies should just go out and spend this offseason. Take the money that the fans poured into this team and make it even better.

Yes its a real post. Let me explain from a different perspective. I am not claiming that the Phillies can spend as much as the Yankees even if they wanted to. I am a hockey fan first. I don’t want to see major leauge baseball institute a salary cap. As much as I despise Yankee fans and their smug attitude, at least they are true fans. They are definately there in the good times, but even though there have been many they are also there in the bad times. I don’t want reward fans of these “small market teams” that never show up. Five years ago before Crosby and Malkin were drafted by Pittsburgh you could walk up to Mellon arena 10 minutes before the game hand the the person behind the glass twenty dollars and sit right on the ice. This was a time in the season when there was no football, no baseball, and no NBA. Now you can’t go anywhere near that city without them idiots claiming how they are the greatest fans in the world. Sporting news ranked them number one. Why should a system exist where an owner wants to spend the money and can’t because other owners want to add to their bottom line at the expense of the fans. Before the NHL lockout Snider was the Steinbrenner of hockey, had he brought in Homer to replace Clarke with that system in place who knows we could be hockey town instead of Detroit.
I hate the Yankees and all 27 of their world titles. I hate their fans that think something is owed to them because they are the Yankees, but if their ownership is willing to spend it is up to our ownership to bring in the pieces we need to defeat them. I just dont want to hear that the money is not there. Had the Rays fallen to the Red Sox, and the Red Sox beat us last year and we were staring down the barrel of two consecutive world series defeats to the two teams with the two largest payroll and we are the 4th largest market we would be demanding that the owners increase the payroll. That is not what happened we defeated a team with half our payroll and lost to a team that doubles our payroll. I don’t expect the Phillies to go out and spend a half a billion dollars in this off season. They don’t have that many needs. They need some bench help, they need a a number 2 or 3 starter in case Cole does return to the form that everybody just assumes he is going to. And they need 1 or 2 arms in the bullpen. with those additions i could live with Feliz at third. If they had some help on the bench you could pinch hit for Feliz in some of those crucial at bats. I have not given up on Feliz just yet. I don’t know this Figgins guy from Adam. The only thing I saw of him was this postseason.
I just don’t want a salary cap. As much as this defeat hurts it would hurt even more to watch Utley have to leave town, not because he declined in skill, but because there wasn’t enough room under the cap. It was only 3 or 4 years ago that we were demanding that silent owners stand up and take responsibility. The phillies don’t have Yankee money, but there is money available to fill the small holes that need to be filled to take down the big bad Yankees, and we still all crow about how our payroll is 3/5 the size of theirs. Lets go out and spend and make it 27-4 in the next 2 or 3 years.