Brewers boss bitching about revenue

Brewers owner Mark Attanasio thinks big market clubs need to share more revenue.

``It's always amusing to me to hear the Yankees, they can't get into the playoffs with $200 million, and they say, `well, we've done enough,''' Attanasio, the chief investment officer at money management firm TCW Group Inc., said in an interview with Bloomberg Radio's ``On the Ball'' program that will air tomorrow. ``The advantages that you're given in the bigger market teams -- if they really wanted to have a fair fight they would do more revenue sharing, but I guess the obvious battle lines are drawn on that.''

Making the playoffs, something Milwaukee finally did this year for the first time since 1982, doesn't always have to do with money. Since Attanasio's team last qualified for postseason ball the money-challenged Marlins have won two World Series with two entirely different teams.

Revenue sharing helps small market teams survive, if not stay competitive financially. Staying competitive on the field has more to do with finding good players for good bargains and hiring management with good baseball sense.

Here's wondering if Milwaukee makes a DVD about the Yankees' payroll and sends it to MLB.