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Red Sox Owner John Henry said that it’s time for the smaller market team Owners to stop putting the ->?

Money they make from revenue sharing in their own pockets & spend it on getting players. Your thoughts on this?

Owners who pocket money are just adding to the problems of baseball. This is not the case with all teams. It’s always a…”well if…” or “they should” or “there needs to be” Listening to the arguments of money over the uneven baseball field never ends. The ones with the money point fingers, the ones without point fingers. I have a hard time believing that all owners are pocketing enough cash to cover a 200 million dollar payroll for their teams.
This is why nothing ever gets resolved, all the back and forth banter never resolves a thing. It’s like the age old argument, “well my dad could beat up your dad”

For fun…Here’s a list of the MLB’s richest owners, for the record the Brewers are 22nd in revenue.

1. Nationals – Theodore Lerner @ $3.2B bought team from MLB for $450M in 2006
2. ((new owner now though, this was april 2009))Cubs – Sam Zell @ $3B Tribune Co. bought team in 1981, Zell took control of Tribune in 2007.
3. Braves – John Malone @ $1.5B bought team from Ted Turner’s Time Warner in 2007
4. Astros – Drayton McLane @ $1.4B bought team in 1992
5. Tigers – Michael Illitch @ $1.4B bought team in 1992 for $82M, also owns the NHL’s Red Wings.
6. Reds – Carl Linder @ $1.4B a fall from the #3 spot, was worth $2.2B at this time last year.
7. Yankees – George Steinbrenner @ $1.3B
8. Athletics – John Fisher @ $1.2B part owner since 2005, down from the #4 spot, worth $1.8K last year.
9. Red Sox – John Henry @ $1.1B
10. Rangers – Tom Hicks @ $1B bought team in 1998 from George W. Bush, also owns the NHL’s Dallas Star.

***Note: Tom Ricketts owns the Cubs now, this list is from April 2009

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