Can you name the MLB teams with the top 10 and bottom 10 payrolls for 2011? by Blimpyboy

Can you name the MLB teams with the top 10 and bottom 10 payrolls for 2011?

created by Blimpyboy

Enter a team in the box below
Correctly named teams will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
ALERT!: Entering some wrong answers will end the quiz
Source: 2011 MLB Salaries by Team
Enter only the top 10 or bottom 10 payrolls in MLB for 2011. Answering any in between will set off a mine and end the quiz. Team names (without city) MOSTLY accepted (except where conflicts exist).
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Payroll Rank	Team	2011 Payroll
0		-
1		$203M
2		$173M
3		$162M
4		$139M
5		$128M
6		$125M
7		$119M
8		$118M
9		$113M
10		$106M

Payroll Rank	Team	2011 Payroll
30		$ 36M
29		$ 41M
28		$ 45M
27		$ 46M
26		$ 49M
25		$ 54M
24		$ 57M
23		$ 63M
22		$ 64M
21		$ 67M
11	$ 67M
12	$ 67M
13	$ 67M
14	$ 67M
15	$ 67M
16	$ 67M
17	$ 67M
18	$ 67M
19	$ 67M
20	$ 67M

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	Blimpyboy:	Jun 28th, 2011 at 19:41 GMT		3 points
	This is my first "Minefield" quiz. Hopefully I got it right, but if not, my apologies in advance. Happy sporcling!

	domotime2:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 00:20 GMT		4 points
	haha so sad. Awful teams like the Astros, Orioles can't even blame the fact that they have a low payroll. Who on the Astros is making money? jeez

	nms9807:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 01:48 GMT		4 points
	@domotime2 Carlos Lee pretty much.

	Blimpyboy:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 01:56 GMT		3 points
	Look what the Rays have done with so little and what the Mets and Cubs are unable to do with so much.

	sultanofswing:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 04:49 GMT		1 point
	Hey the Mets just broke .500 today were not THAT bad. Were still pretty bad but not Cubs bad yet!!

	Blimpyboy:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 12:51 GMT		2 points
	@sultanofswing: Fair enough, guess they've still got a shot. But they've got pretty much the same record as my Pirates right now, so... :P

	listyguy:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 13:47 GMT		2 points
	Comparing the Mets to the Cubs is a little harsh though. They also have $35 Million on the DL.

	12bball:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 14:40 GMT		-1 points
	Cardinals...

	conman20042002:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 15:15 GMT		4 points
	the mets payroll has little to do with whats on the field. They are paying boatloads to castillo and perez who aren't even on the team and david wright and johan santana missed most of the year with injury. Look at their starting 5 and lineup and their payroll is that of an average team.

	bmo1616:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 16:24 GMT		2 points
	I dont know what's more pathetic, the Cubs going 103 years without winning a World Series, or the Yankees only winning once in 10 years with a $200M payroll.

	sinatra22:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 20:29 GMT		3 points
	Please accept "A's".

	Feags:	Jun 29th, 2011 at 20:39 GMT		3 points
	Gotta love them Rays. Current standings put their record at 3rd best in the AL, 7th overall in the Majors, and **th (no spoilers) in payroll. I only wish Congress could do so much with so little!

	Blimpyboy:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 00:35 GMT		5 points
	@sinatra22: Can't accept A's, because there's a conflict with the Astros, and it is (after all) an abbreviation for the actual team name.

	TheWabbler:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 02:57 GMT		4 points
	I believe nothing happened when I put the reds in.

	Blimpyboy:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 11:35 GMT		4 points
	@TheWabbler - Consider that a freebie. The situation between the Reds and Red Sox is the same I described above to sinatra for the A's and Astros, but in reverse. If I allowed it to accept Reds, then everyone who began typing Red Sox would have their game unceremoniously ended. But if I required everyone to type in Boston Red Sox, I'm sure I'd hear no end of complaints over it (despite it being explained in the game notes). And if I just left nothing to chance and made everyone type in the full team name for everyone, I'm sure there'd be even more complaints. So I erred on the side of helpfulness and required everyone to fully type in only "Cincinnati Reds" in order to make that particular wrong guess even more difficult to make. ;)

	ClintT13:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 18:04 GMT		-2 points
	The Royals have the lowest payroll. That's no surprise. You know what is surprising? The fact that 10 years ago the Royals had the HIGHEST payroll. They splurged in the FA market and had both defending Cy Young winners on their staff. It didn't work out so well.

	barnztormre:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 18:36 GMT		2 points
	I've done it twice, and gone BOOM with numbers 11 and 20. Harsh. :)

	Murf1013:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 20:57 GMT		9 points
	@ClinT13: Ummmm....what????????????? That may very well be the wrongest comment I've come across in my life. You basically said: "LBJ was the 36th president. That's no surprise. You know what is surprising? The fact that he was once elected president of Uganda. He was over there investigating the loch ness monster and was assisted by Ringo Starr and Rowdy Roddy Piper. It didn't work out too well."

	Blimpyboy:	Jun 30th, 2011 at 22:20 GMT		2 points
	@ClintT13 and @Murf1013: I had to go all the way back to 1990, but I figured out what Clint was talking about. KC hasn't been outside the bottom 10 payrolls in the league since the early 90s, but before the free agency bonanza and the vast difference in TV revenues had reared its ugly head, KC had the top payroll in the league in 1990 ($24M). Okay, maybe he was off by 11 years, but still...

	redsoxrule04:	Jul 3rd, 2011 at 01:04 GMT		2 points
	Ahh man, the 'Stros got me

	RiseAgainst182:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 05:48 GMT		1 point
	Ugh... number 9, you're killing me. Got all but number 9.

	Rob42:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 08:18 GMT		1 point
	Good game, but much harder than expected! There seems to be no link between payroll and performance, who says that money is everything!

	dt022:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 08:33 GMT		2 points
	You can't accept "A's" due to the fact that if you are trying to type "Astros", you may get the A's on accident. That is why the Reds won't make you lose, because it intervenes with the Red Sox.

	dt022:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 08:35 GMT		1 point
	Now that I kept reading the comments, I see that BlimpyBoy already said that. Glad I'm not the only good civilian now a day :)

	Blimpyboy:	Jul 4th, 2011 at 18:31 GMT		1 point
	@dt022 - Yeah, I kinda have to, seeing as how it's my quiz. ;) ... @Rob42 - There's been a pretty good link between payroll and performance for Pirates and Royals fans lately. Though the Pirates are actually only 1.5 games out of first place at the moment (thanks mostly to a mediocre division).

	blakeshow32:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 03:27 GMT		1 point
	How do you create a quiz like this???? This one was good.

	Blimpyboy:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 20:25 GMT		1 point
	Thanks, @blakeshow32! I love the "minefield" format, and thought it'd really work well with this particular high/low setup. It took some work to put together - this was my first foray into using bonus answers at all, let alone setting it up to explode when one was guessed. Short answer - it was done with a lot of trial and error. :)

	GeorgiaPeach:	Jul 5th, 2011 at 22:36 GMT		1 point
	How does one make a minefield quiz and get the first answer to change from "safe" to "boom?" after a player enters a wrong answer?

	Blimpyboy:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 00:16 GMT		2 points
	I wish there were a better guide for it, @GeorgiaPeach. You have to set up a non-bonus answer in the first space, which is set up to reveal (as a "safe" type of answer) with absolutely ANY correct answer. That space will be used as soon as one of your bonus-type wrong answers are guessed, and the "safe" will be replaced with the incorrect answer. The way you can get that to say "BOOM" is by making "BOOM" be the primary answer to your incorrect items (with the actual incorrect item following after a slash)... which means that typing in "BOOM" isn't the best idea in a minefield quiz. :P

	GeorgiaPeach:	Jul 6th, 2011 at 17:25 GMT		1 point
	Thanks, Blimpyboy!