I guess if you work hard, win four World Series and get your team to the playoffs every year you have been employed as manager (12 years), then you deserve a pay cut. I’d probably say shove it, like Yankees manager Joe Torre did.

Maybe the New York Yankees need to sink to the bottom of the standings for a few years to see what most of the other Major League Baseball (MLB) teams feel like. Making the playoffs for 12 years straight might not seem too bad.

For example, the Kansas City Royals have not been to the playoffs since 1985. Ironically that was the year they won the World Series. That was also back when smaller market teams could routinely compete with the likes of the New York Yankees.

The New York Yankees have the largest payroll in MLB, somewhere around $195 million. The Boston Red Sox are second. The Cleveland Indians and the Colorado Rockies rank 23^rd and 25^th respectively. The Rockies are in the series. The Indians are one game away. It might be nice to see them play each other to prove money’s not everything in baseball.

It’s really hard to comprehend that several players in MLB make $10 million or more per season. Wow. The Yankees have 11 players making $10 million or more per season, with Jeter, Giambi and Rodriguez making over $20 million. The Red Sox have five. The Colorado Rockies have just one. The Cleveland Indians have zer0.

Joe Torre will end up managing another team. The Yankess will go on. Baseball will go on, too. And, there will always be a few owners who will pay grown men millions of dollars to play a child’s game. It’s as American as apple pie.