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Politics, News & Issues > Baseball News & Opinion Do baseball salaries buy championships?

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Actually, the answer to the question is "maybe." All you have to do is look at the ineptitude of the Baltimore Orioles over the last decade to see that a high payroll doesn't always translate into victories. They've spent, and their only championship quality is Boog Powell's barbecue. What a high payroll does do is give you a leg up on the teams with much lower ones; a chance at the prize. And it's really unfair to small market teams. This is coming from a Yankee fan, not an embittered Kansas City Royal fan. It's totally absurd that the pool of perennial title contenders will come from the...

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