To ESPN's Mike & Mike In the Morning: Why are you picking on the Brewers?

Good morning everybody,

I got up early this morning to get my work done before driving over to Platteville for this afternoon's doubleheader against the Pioneers.

While I work at my computer I'm watching ESPN's Mike and Mike in the Morning. Greeny's rant this morning comes from a blog piece on the YES Network (Yankees billion dollar plus TV network).

When USA Today released their annual salary survey yesterday, Brewers’ owner Mark Attanasio had some choice words for the Yankees. The Brewers, what one might consider to be a mid- or small-market team, make do with what they have, but what they have pales in comparison with the Yanks’ coffers, and Attanasio, a Yankee fan by birth, knows this.

?We?re struggling to sign [first baseman Prince Fielder], and the Yankees infield is making more than our team,? he said to Bob Nightengale and Scott Boeck yesterday.

Today, Randy Levine, the Yanks’ team president, fired back. While speaking with Andrew Marchand of ESPN New York, Levine had this to say:

“I’m sorry that my friend Mark continues to whine about his running the Brewers. We play by all the rules and there doesn’t seem to be any complaints when teams such as the Brewers receive hundreds of millions of dollars that they get from us in revenue sharing the last few years. Take some of that money that you get from us and use that to sign your players.

“The question that should be asked is: Where has the hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue sharing gone?”

Sooo - Greenburg spent a good portion of the show ripping the Brewers because Attanasio's says "his teamcan't compete as a small market team in MLB because of teams like the NYY or BoSox.

That is the same Attanasio that talked openly on the opening day Brewers telecast about the Brewers attendance over three million the past two years, the team competing for the division title the past couple of years, and signing Prince is a major goal in 2010.

Doesn't sound like a cry baby to me.

Good - now I got that off my chest and have my game face on for some serious blogging today from Platteville.

GO WARHAWKS - GO BREWERS!!