World Series ring put up for auction, Yankees bid $200 million

If this deal goes down as reported (Rodriguez for Soriano), my quick math, with help from Dugout Dollars, puts the Yankees' payroll at around $194 million. And that's not even taking into account whatever they end up paying Travis Lee. They'd have ten players on their roster making upwards of $10 million this year. I don't know if the comedic value of letting Derek "past a diving" Jeter play shortstop while you've got Alex Rodriguez on your team would be enough to console me. No, it'd take something like a shot of Steinbrenner face after Keith Foulke strikes out Gary Sheffield to end the ALCS to make things all right in my eyes. I may have more on this once it actually happens or fails to.  ¶ joe | 4:30 PM |