<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Christopher Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbsmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">cbsmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Miguel Hernandez <<a href="mailto:migtek@gmail.com">migtek@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The New York Yankees are one of baseball's most storied & successful<br>
> franchises. Over the last 20 years, they've consistently had baseball's<br>
> highest payroll (many times topping the $200 million/year mark) & the team<br>
> with the 2nd highest payroll is sometimes $50-60 million/year behind them.<br>
> Yet they've only won the World Series 5 of those years.<br>
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</div>I don't want to kill your entire argument, but that's still 3 more<br>
than anyone else over those same 20 years... Maybe it is just hard to<br>
consistently win the World Series. ;-)</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Touche! ;)</div><div><br></div><div>What I was aiming that was that, when hiring, people tend to just find the best at one thing & go with that but how there's other important factors to consider if you're truly trying to build a winning team. Still, based on what they've spent, most would figure that they "should've" won the World Series on a much more consistent basis. </div>
<div><br></div><div>--miguel</div></div>