I am not much of a sports fan, but I really I find comments like Celtic Soul's to be both annoying and extremely wrong--the amount of money spent on sports is not that much, compared to the total amount of money spent on education in this country--

Last year, the New York Yankees Baseball Club generated $248,000.000 in total revenues for the year 2001, approximately the amount of money it will take to run the Charlotte-Mecklinberg School System in North Carolina(which serves a total of 118,00 students) for the 2002-2003 School year--$241,000,000 were expenses, though, and the $8.000,000 of profit wouldn't have been enough to offset the $22,000,000 which the district is planning to trim from their budget--

Oakland, generated only about $75,000,000, which is about what it will cost to run the Treddyfrin/Easttown School system in Berwyn.PA, which is so small that only a few of you will actually have even heard of it. Even at that, Treddyfrin/Easttown seems to have spent more on salaries than Oakland did--

There are many, many, school systems that are larger than Charlotte/Mecklinsburg, and between they could swallow up the revenues from all of professional baseball without it making much difference at all--