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NEW YORK, N. Bob Kauffman Jersey .Y. - The Los Angeles Dodgers have ended the New York Yankees 15-year streak as Major League Baseballs biggest spenders and owe more than $26.6 million in luxury tax.The Dodgers finished with a record payroll of $257,283,410, according to final calculations made by Major League Baseball on Friday and obtained by The Associated Press. That is more than $20 million above the previous high, set by the Yankees last year.For the first time since the current luxury tax began in 2003, the Yankees wont be paying the most. The luxury tax was put in place as a slowdown on spending by high-revenue teams, and teams pay based on the amount they are over the $189 million threshold.The Dodgers owe $26,621,125 based on a $277.7 million payroll for purposes of the tax, which calculates payroll based on the average annual value of contracts for players on the 40-man roster and includes benefits. That raises the teams two-year total to $38 million.Los Angeles, which flopped out of this years playoffs in the division round and is seeking its first World Series title since 1988, pays the tax at a 30 per cent rate because it has gone over the threshold for the second straight year. The Dodgers rate would increase to 40 per cent if they go over in 2015, which is likely.The Yankees cut their payroll and owe $18.3 million in tax, down from $28.1 million for 2013. New York originally hoped to get under the threshold but wound up more than $36 million over. The Yankees have gone over every year, totalling nearly $271 million. New York pays at a 50 per cent rate, the highest called for in baseballs collective bargaining agreement.Checks to the commissioners office are due by Jan. 21. Tax money is used to fund player benefits and MLBs Industry Growth Fund.Four teams wound up less than $10 million under the threshold: Detroit ($187 million), Philadelphia and Boston ($186 million each), and the Los Angeles Angels and World Series champion San Francisco ($180 million apiece).Three of baseballs five-biggest spenders missed the playoffs this year, with the Yankees joined by Philadelphia and Boston. Among the 10 playoff teams, three were in the bottom half by payroll: AL champion Kansas City was 19th, Oakland 23rd and Pittsburgh 27th.The Mets regular payroll of $92.9 million was the teams lowest since $93.1 million in 2001 and $82.2 million in 2000.MLB calculated the average salary at $3,692,123, up 11 per cent from 2013 for the steepest increase since 2001. The players association has not yet released its final 2014 average. Los Angeles Clippers Pro Shop . 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Im not sure if its thumbs down to Crosby or thumbs down to the NHL, but either way, it is not right that Crosby will sit out on Tuesday, suspended by the NHL, as it were. The reasoning goes that if Crosby could start and finish Wednesdays game against Chicago, he should suit up for Team Toews or Team Foligno in Sundays All-Star Game and, by not doing so, he disrespects the NHL and Team Pittsburgh, which needs him in the lineup against the Jets. On the other hand, there is room to accuse the league of disrespecting Crosby and of carrying its annoyance with All-Star no-shows too far by applying an ill-conceived rule. How important is it for Crosby to play in Columbus today? Obviously, contrary to NHL thinking, its not as important as it is for him to play in Pittsburgh on Tuesday. Both he and the league should realize that, and its too bad they wouldnt or couldnt do something about it. -- Some might say thumbs down to the World Cup of Hockey because its not the Olympics. I will say thumbs up to the World Cup of Hockey, if it winds up replacing the Olympics. Confused? Lets start with the widely-held view, among fans and players alike, that the place for thee worlds biggest international hockey event is the Olympic Games. Clippers Jerseys China. It is hoped that NHL participation in the Olympic hockey tournament will continue in South Korea in 2018. If it does, and if this is determined between now and the start of the 2016 World Cup, the event in Toronto will be viewed accordingly. Itll be interesting, potentially exciting, quite gimmicky with the inclusion of two teams that wont be representing single nations, and it will obviously be well attended. But it wont be the Olympics. Conversely, if the NHL and the NHLPA decide to skip the next Olympics, and maybe others to follow, the World Cup becomes the best and only place to watch the top players in an international setting and a World Cup win will amount to international hockey supremacy. In saying that, it is necessary to react to the possibility, slim, though it may be, of a World Cup win by a team of European or young North American all-stars. That would satisfy no one apart from the members of the championship team if the 2018 Olympics were off the NHL calendar. It would be more acceptable, once the surprise wore off, if the bigger and more important event were to follow at the Olympics two years later. Thus, I reserve final judgment on the full worth of the World Cup until a decision is reached on future NHL Olympic involvement. ' ' '