An interesting parallel is baseball.<p>The Yankees are infamous for using money as a tool, buying up as much talent as they could.<p>In recent years, the Dodgers have outspent everybody, but in an absolutely different way. 25% of the Dodgers payroll goes to players not playing for the Dodgers. Often, it&#x27;s going to players playing against the Dodgers. Many commentators have described this in similar terms. They use their deep pockets a s a weapon. Instead of giving their players huge salaries, they on multiple occasions have found teams struggling with expensive contracts for underperforming players. They negotiate to take the player (and the bad contract) and then require some talented youngsters to be thrown in on the deal. They then trade away the underperforming player to another team, subsidizing the contract substantially, and keep the talented prospects. While some of these trades didn&#x27;t pan out well, it was a pretty unique way to use deep pockets as a weapon.