Yes the struggling economy is everywhere, and baseball is not immune. The unemployment line is stretching around the block with Manny Ramirez (probably because he drops routine fly balls like the Dow drops percentage points), Ken Griffey Jr., and Bobby Abreu among the players looking more likely to be catching shoplifters as security guards at Wal-Mart than catching fly balls this season.
Meanwhile the Yankees appear to be the Bank of America of baseball acquiring everything they can get their hands on (Hopefully the acquisitions of Teixeira and Sabathia will not turn out like the acquisitions of Merrill Lynch and Countrywide). After all, the Yankees have a history of acquiring toxic assets like Kevin Brown and Carl Pavano.
If anyone is looking for their own personal stimulus package you could consider betting on the Nationals to win the World Series. They are paying off at 300/1. (The Rays were at 150/1 preseason last year just ahead of the Nationals for second to last).
Hopefully the economy will recover before Citigroup pulls out of the stadium deal leaving the Mets homeless.
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