Small Market Baseball teams

As a Yankees fan for years i have heard how the yankees buy championships & how they make the playing feild unlevel & unfair. I am here to tell you today IT IS NOT THE YANKEES that cause salaries to skyrocket it is with out a doubt the small market teams like Kansas City & others that through the Market outta whack. Let me explain after the last work stoppage where all the owners cried poverty & salaries were outta control b/c of the yankees & other big market teams, we saw for a short period of time salaries decrease if you think im wrong look at the original contract Vlad Gurrerro signed with the Angels it was way below what he was worth in the free agent market a yr or so before on the whole free agent salaries were down then. Then Revenue Sharing & Luxury tax comes into play this essentially charges teams a tax that spend over a certain amt. set by MLB each yr. its design was to put money into the pockets of smaller market teams so they could spend on Free agents & be more competitive. Mismangement & greedy owners instead of spending the revenue given to them put it in their pockets to guarrentee profitable years, therefore it cannot be said it is the yankees fault for keeping the playing field uneven. Now the biggie when these small market teams do spend the lux. tax money they do it foolishly!!! Kansas City gives Gill Meche a 5 yr deal for 55 million dollars GIll MEche who has a carreer record of 64-56 with a 4.46 ERA & that includes his 9-12 record this season his 1st in the 55 million dollar deal. Kansas city doesnt wait they went out & set the Market & set it way to high for a medicore pitcher & I use medicore loosley. Here is y K.C. burns themselves b/c at the same time Gill Meche is a Free Agent pitcher another Free agent pitcher named Andy Pettitte is paying close attention. Pettitte whose career record is 198-111 w/ a 3.81 ERA. & includes pitching in 7 world series (winning 4 titles) where he has posted a 14-9 post season record. Now Pettitte sits back & says to himself if Gill Meche got 10 mill a yr & he has done nothing you can be damn sure that I'm worth more than that, now the problem is K.C. can sign a 10 mill player but they should have given him 4mill now Pettitte bidding atarts at 11 & the yankees sign him for roughly 16mill a yr. K.C. & small teams scream yankees r buying a title, but look at the facts if K.C. didnt over pay for Meche, Pettitte's salary would have been lower, If K.C didnt blow the market open other teams would have had a chance at signing a player like Pettitte, but once the market was placed so high by a small market team only about 4 teams would have the resources to sign a player like Pettitte. So as teams like K.C. and other small market teams toil in the basement of their divisions don't look up with sour grapes & blame NYY & BOS your own fiscal mismanagement has put u there...

College proffessors

Why is it that college proffessors fail to take into account that most of their students espically at transit schools work on avg. 30-50 hours aweek? No less than 2 days ago i was sitting in a class where a professor asked how many students worked & she was absolutly shocked when everyone raised their hands. I give her credit for asking b/c most of her colleagues appear to care less the amt. of work their students have outside the classroom. Never the less it did not prevent her from assigning a major 30 min oral presentation. My major beef here is that these professors need to realize that students today are taking on more & more nor do professors seem to take into account that their students are taking other classes as well. I am not suguessting that college be made easy not at all, but some teachers need to seriously scale back their expectations of what a student can handle, a 10 pg paper is acceptable, 3 papers & a presentation while working 40 hours & trying to meet up with group members who likewise are working is damn near impossible. Times have changed signifigantly no longer do u find a home where one parent is able to remain home, both must work, & no longer is it acceptable for college proffessors to assume that they can dump tremendous workloads on students who are already under tremendous pressure of school & working close to full time. It's high time teachers step back & review their policies & realize students in college now have much more required of them outside the classroom than they did when they were students...