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Cliff Lee is like LeBron James, or something, because he returned to his former team rather than signing with the perenial World Series contending Yankees, who have the highest payroll
Why does not signing with the Yankees cause half the baseball media to hate you?
MITCH BLATT
So Cliff Lee just chose the Philadelphia Phillies over the New York Yankees, who were offering him more, and returned to his former team from 2009.
Naturally, a player not signing with the team with the largest payroll in baseball and [...]
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Enough! MLB needs a salary cap
Cliff Lee’s shocking signing with the Phillies means there’s a new team to hate in baseball, and yet another reason why the sport desperately needs to get this one-sided spending under control
SCOTT JACOBS
Move over New York. Stand aside Boston. There’s a new team to completely despise in Major League Baseball.
They may play in the City [...]
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Baseball needs to give away awards much sooner
Indians go back to back with Lee’s CY Young
SCOTT JACOBS
Yesterday it was Tim Lincecum. Today it was Cliff Lee.
And you know what the two had in common?
Few even noticed. Look, winning the CY Young is a great accomplishment, but two things take the luster off of their achievement. First off, their teams stinked. The Indians [...]
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