Amid recession, housing crisis, rising unemployment and falling consumer confidence, there's always someone.
Three new free-agent signings. $423.5 million.
On top of the game's wealthiest payroll.
How do we hate the New York Yankees? Let us count the ways. (Seriously, who runs this team, Bernie Madoff?)
Mark Teixeira, the former Texas Ranger , is the latest Baseball star to emerge from the Yankees' front office with a wallet so fat he can't sit. He joins pitchers C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett in the Evil Empire's free-agent splurge.
Of course, we can hate the Yankees all we want, but as Jeff Neuman writes at Real Clear Sports, we also should acknowledge their wisdom. Those massive signings might look obscene in America today, but the Yankees actually shed a bunch of salary from last season, with more gone after this one.
Yes, those new deals might prove fiscally sound. Which would be just one more reason to hate the Yankees.
