Sports: A Game Of Inches

We are four humble men who love sports, but hate sports commentary. Peter Gammons is our hero and John Madden is our enemy. If you were to ask us our purpose, our answer would be simple: "We are forever locked in Mortal Kombat for the souls of sports fans everywhere. Statistics are our science and 'the immeasurable character of men' is the obsolete religion of blind faith. Our job is to prove that God doesn't exist and that athletes are merely cold, metal machines with no hearts or souls."

MLB Players Make Money For Playoffs

I always knew that teams that made it to the playoffs make more money. That is common knowledge from tickets, concessions, and t.v rights. What I didn't know is that players get a part of that. As
Yahoo sports said "The Yankees won the World Series, and their full postseason shares were worth a record $365,053. That was up from $351,504 on the 2008 champion Philadelphia Phillies and the previous mark of $362,173 set by the 2006 St. Louis Cardinals".

From the $365,053 the Yankees received the "Yankees players received $21.27 million and split it among 46 full shares, 12 partial shares and two cash awards". So the players get a piece of the pie. You can read in the article how much the rest of the teams and players received, even the Cubs for not making it!