According to The Sporting News, Yankees’ owner George Steinbrenner has gone from being the “fat guy who refused to leave the buffet line” to “[the guy that] hauled off the remaining food so no one else could eat.” With all of his recent trades and acquisitions, he seems more than willing to buy another winning team, highlighting the disparity between the payrolls of other teams and the Yankees. From the same article, “A strike looks inevitable, maybe even necessary, to trigger reform.” I agree, and this time the fans might not come back. Attendence numbers never even recovered from the 1994 strike, despite the heroic example of Cal Ripken that caused a minor resurgence in attendence.