Yes, it's painfully easy to rail against George Steinbrenner and his disdain for salary caps and smaller market baseball cities. But why should we exclusively scorn the Yankees' bossman?

It seems as though his uber-capitalist TV-revenue-seeking mindset has spread to his employees as well. Listen to NY's celebrated/overrated slugger Jason Giambi's pullquote contribution to a Washington Post article about the celebrated matchups in this particular baseball postseason:

Jason Giambi can see why there's so much enthusiasm.

"The teams that are in the postseason - the Cubbies always have great support. These playoffs should be great, a lot of TV viewers."

Maybe George's mouthpiece is anticipating a raise, what with all the exciting licensing revenue sure to come in this fall!