Spoken like someone who hasn't played major league baseball for 20 years. But I agree about the WS part... it's still not entirely impossible this year (though it should be).
Going into next year you could say Darvish is getting about the same $$ as Mark-f***ing-Buehrle (If you average out Yu Darvish's contract including the posting fee it's about $18mil/year)
I don't really get why it matters if Jose/EE are in the derby, team is not in contention anyway... at least give the fans something. Poor upper management and PR IMO.