How the myth that cost-effectiveness means something in baseball helps all teams get richer on other people's cash

Just the other day, my wife and I were watching a Restaurant Impossible cooking show in which some poor widow restaurant owner had already sunk $350,000 of her own money into a sub-standard business and had to keep throwing in more in order for it to have a chance at succeeding. Got me to thinking about how that would never happen in Major League Baseball. After all, there are sub-standard teams that have been operating that way for years in MLB and yet the fan customers they serve -- and their supposed watchdogs in the media and blogging community -- keep demanding more mediocrity. Call it the post-Moneyball era. Call it La-La Land. Just don't call it logical. Because there is nothing logical about the climate of debate surrounding baseball teams and their ability to spend. I see fans twisting themselves in knots worrying about whether the latest billionaire owner is going to go bankrupt spending other people's money. See these extensive debates about which teams are gettin...