Frank Deford needs a new hobby...

...because this writing thing ain't really working out for him. Here's his latest screed, titled Until a salary cap, MLB outcomes will remain predictable. The money quote:

[A]s long as there is no salary cap to equalize things, the Yankees and a few other rich teams are going to buy championships, while the little old mid-major cities really can't compete.

Here's something that also "remains predictable": complaining about how the Yankees "buy" their pennants. How about an original thought, Frank?

I've addressed this issue before, so I don't want to repeat myself too much. But there is one point I want to amplify: Major league baseball as a whole is better when the Yankees are spending money and winning ballgames. It's more popular and more exciting. More interesting. More fun. More Ruthian.

On the other hand, it's shitty and boring and forgettable when the Yankees suck. Just look at the periods in baseball history when the Yankees sucked. Does anyone know who won the World Series between 1965 and 1975, or between 1982 and 1996 Did they even play World Series those years? Nobody knows or cares.

Over the past 15 years, meanwhile, major league baseball has become more popular than ever, even as the Yankees have been winning like crazy! Attendance is at or near all-time highs, baseball is all over TV, and kids are playing it around the world. Even minor league baseball is more popular than ever.

If you're a fan of the lowly Royals or crappy Pirates, whose teams are so poorly run that they do shit like trade Jermaine Dye for Neifi Perez or give big contracts to scrubs like Pat Meares, just... be happy. Watch your guys play hard, be proud of them when they hit the cutoff man and go from first to third. Enjoy the smell of the grass, the taste of a hot dog, the little nuances of the game. So what if you don't win, you had fun didn't you? You couldn't really handle winning anyway. Leave that to the big boys.

One other thing: If you don't love the Yankees, then you must hate us. MUST hate us. On those rare occasions when we don't win it all, just bask in how good it feels to watch us lose. You'll have almost as much fun watching us fail as you might have if you ever were to succeed. Ol' Babe guarantees it.

But the one thing you should never do is whine about it. We're the New York fucking Yankees, and you're not. That's the way it is and ever will be.