Chump Change or Just Chumps
By lefty
AP Sports writer Ronald Blum, writes in this story, that the New York Yankees may spend the most money, but that in New York, $205 million is “Chump Change.”
While it may be true that in Manhattan dinner for two at a “top restaurant” may cost $1,000, an apartment may sell for $44 million, or a nursery school can command $24,000 — in all those cases, the buyer has enough cash to be extravagant. A great way of life for those blessed enough to live it. However, most Yankee fans are not in that “country club.” There will come a point when some Yankee fans realize they are not getting what they paid for. Heck, they can't even afford to see a game in person, even if it is in their own Bronx backyard.
If the Yankees continue to choke in the playoffs, the nationwide bandwagon they built in the last century will surely start to lose it wheels. Yankee fans in Ohio, Nebraska, and Tuscon will slowly come to realizations. They will realize that $200 million is actually not “chump change,” and that they are being treated like “chump fans.”
