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The Yankees pull in close to $200 million a year, more than any team, and own baseball's highest payroll, $87 million in 1999.
The Yankees, like the GOP, brazenly take enormous "contributions" wherever they can be found (fans, cable TV operators, Adidas, etc.).
An essay urges New Yorkers to refuse the Yankees' current bid for a publicly funded stadium.
The Germans and Scandinavians who settled in western Greater New England reinforced the secular puritan ethos, although they were more likely to be socialists than the Yankees, whose fear of corruption has often made them enemies of big government.
Even so, big-market teams like the Orioles, Braves, and Yankees stay in contention by purchasing free agents, so two years ago MLB assuaged complaints about the rich/poor gap with a moderate revenue-sharing scheme.