Just When You Thought It Was Safe...

...to believe in baseball again, the Yankees trade for Randy Fucking Johnson. By picking up most of Javier Vasquez's tab and shipping prospects to Arizona, Steinbrenner got his way. And, frankly, that sucks. It doesn't matter that the AAA Columbus Clippers are the most depleted minor league squad in baseball when one team can use the entire league as its farm team. Yes, I know the Yankees did something similar with Kansas City in the '60s, but things are officially out of control. It is disgusting how they buy the AL East pennant year after year. In the '90s, though they had the highest payroll, you could at least respect the class of a team that came up together. Now they're nothing but mercenaries. I had a slight hope that the MLB would get its act together and do something to level the playing field, but on second thought it's better not to. It'll teach the kids a little something about life: no matter how hard you try, some rich white man is going to win.