It's sad that Levine would bully the poor Florida teams, who must also face sinkholes, red tide, pythons, gay people and venereal disease outbreaks in The Villages. But it's obvious why he choses those teams.
Tampa annually owns us, despite a team payroll that would barely cover our outfield. And Miami, long ago, did us the ultimate dirt: They gave us Giancarlo Stanton for a handful of magic beans.
This season, the Marlins averaged 14,000 spectators per game. The rock band Creed might have drawn more. Tampa averaged about 18,000. Nobody cared in April. Nobody still didn't in October. What galls Randy is that both franchises made money, thanks to luxury tax revenue sharing.
Says Randy:
"A lot more focus has to be on individual teams to do better and not just rely on revenue sharing. You can't have two Florida teams averaging 15,000 fans. You can't have it. You don't go into an NFL stadium or an NBA arena and see that."
Nope. You can't have it. Nosireeebob. Not when the Yankees - and Mets, Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers, Devils, Islanders, etc - serve as the prime beacons of mismanagement in American sports.
NYC has the greatest fanbases in the world, which means one thing:
To make money, the ownerships do not need to put good teams into play.
What should have galled Mr. Levine is that both Tampa and Miami put far superior products onto the field in 2023.
You know, looking back, he could have made a great Trump sex slave.
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It’s like they almost get it, they see the problem but not the cause. Tampa and Miami are better teams for less money and it has everything to do with Brian Cashgrab just being bad at playing the MLB crapshoot game. He looks like the guy walking up to a casino table for the first time in his life.
Randy, Randy, Randy. You're such a tool.
Very true, Jar. He's really angry that those teams aren't making their own loot. When the Yankees and everybody else in New York have been heavily subsidized by the taxpayers. What a putz.
My complaint is with you, Randy, you fat pompous slob. The teams you mentioned are alot smarter then Geek Cashman and his geek underlings, like Mike Fishman.
Levine’s head is only there to keep his ears apart.
Funny, the owners don't complain when teams pay a fortune for franchise fees. Greedy baastards that they are...
Randy Levine should be rotting in a prison somewhere giving the Yankees a sweet new stadium while Deputy Mayor, in exchange for the position of Yankee President when he was done. Another piece of garbage that has to go.
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