Wealth & Money Quote by Jay Mohr

There’s a sly little moral loophole baked into Jay Mohr’s line: “obscene amounts of money” is supposed to read as vulgar, even corrupting, yet he treats it as a virtue as long as it buys wins. That flip is the point. Mohr isn’t defending wealth in the abstract; he’s defending a particular kind of rich-guy behavior that at least respects the audience. If you’re going to have a billionaire owner, the least he can do is act like a fan with a checkbook, not an absentee landlord.

The quote lands because it reframes baseball spending as consumer advocacy. “Best product on the field” borrows the language of commerce and entertainment, turning the Yankees into a premium brand and the fans into customers who deserve value for their loyalty. The subtext is impatient and transactional: don’t preach competitive purity while charging top-dollar for tickets, cable packages, and nostalgia. In that world, Steinbrenner’s excess reads less like decadence and more like reinvestment.

Context matters. Steinbrenner became a cultural shorthand for the big-market villain: a boss who could outspend rivals, inflame small-market resentment, and treat roster-building like a hostile takeover. Mohr’s approval nods to a late-90s/early-2000s reality when championships were often conflated with payroll, and baseball was already sliding into an arms-race economy. The intent isn’t subtle policy argument; it’s a gut-level defense of ambition. If the game is going to be unfair, at least make it entertaining.