
Originally Posted by
Dugmet
2003: 2nd highest
2004: 4th highest
2005: 3rd highest
2006: 6th highest
2007: 3rd highest
2008: 2nd highest
*Madoff arrested
2009: 2nd highest
2010: 5th highest
2011: 7th highest
2012: 14th highest
Teams at the top levels often leapfrog over each other as they alternately sign top free agents. Bottom line is that ownership remained in the upper echelon of payrolls until Madoff was exposed and arrested.
If someone wants to call ownership conservative, maybe in some areas, definitely in one, but when it comes to payroll, consistently ranking in the top 5 is not "cheap". Ranking in the bottom half would definitely be cheap imo.
You mean until they no longer could supplement their payroll with fictitious 18-percent returns, no?
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