{"id":416,"date":"2009-11-09T16:47:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/?p=416"},"modified":"2009-11-09T16:47:29","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:47:29","slug":"frugal-ball","status":"archive","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/frugal-ball\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Baseballl\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.befrugal.com:444\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/129291830_1a5238edd7.jpg\" alt=\"Baseball \u00a9 Matt McGee\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baseball \u00a9 Matt McGee (http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pleeker\/129291830\/)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As you may have noticed, last Friday\u2019s deals of the week was written by a non-native Bostonian.<span> <\/span>So by way of a counterpoint allow me to talk a little about how the Yankees and their payroll do not fit in with the BeFrugal philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>As researched by the prolific Joe Posnanski, between 2002 and 2009 the Yankees spent $432 million dollars <strong>more<\/strong> than any other team in baseball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joeposnanski.com\/JoeBlog\/2009\/11\/05\/the-yankees-payroll\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/joeposnanski.com\/JoeBlog\/2009\/11\/05\/the-yankees-payroll\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>While they achieved their goal in the end, in that same time period six other teams have won it all by spending their money much more wisely. A far more frugal approach to payroll management.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/frugal-ball\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"excerptimage alignleft wp-post-image tfe\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" \/><\/a><p>As you may have noticed, last Friday\u2019s deals of the week was written by a non-native Bostonian. So by way of a counterpoint allow me to talk a little about ... <a title=\"Frugal Ball\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/frugal-articles\/frugal-ball\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Frugal Ball<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-archive","format-standard","hentry","category-frugal-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.befrugal.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}