Yankees can *#$% off!

To quote John Sterling:

THE YANKEES WIN, THEEEEEEEE YANKEES WINNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They should be winning this every year considering their payroll is more than twice MLB average and 50 million more than the nearest team.

There's a ticker tape parade tomorrow. My office building will be in “parade mode” with additional security and most of the entrances locked to keep out the riff-raff. I hate when they do this.

katzmandoo said:JorgeBurrito said:They should be winning this every year considering their payroll is more than twice MLB average and 50 million more than the nearest team.

yes because money always wins, just ask the Mets...RIGHT?

and who was in the WS last year...THE RAYS!


there goes that dumb argument...

Don't you see though, that is what makes it funny. They should be winning every year and yet they don't. As a Yankee fan I would be embarrassed that my team spends so much more money than everyone else (a third more then the nearest team), yet most years are lucky to make it to the playoffs at all. Just so you don't think I am biased, I laugh my ass off at the Mets and Redsox for this same reason.

Are you referring to me? I hate the fact that baseball has no true salary cap, and it results in teams in big markets like New York and Boston having such an advantage over the rest of the league. The fans then come and talk shit saying how much better their team is than everyone else...all I am pointing out is that they better damn well be considering the payroll disparity. I don't know why this offends you, it is a simple fact.

The Yankees did this year exactly what they should be doing every year as long as they are spending 50 million more than the nearest team. I don't think they deserve a particularly large amount of credit for that.

not referring to you at all. "your" is meant to be general in both instances.

i agree, but the bigger and more popular the city/ region, the bigger the budgets. you know that. boston fans do the same thing when it comes to smack talk, angels too. royals are a bit more humble and well tampa bay was a fluke year just like the marlins had. that's a home town thing bud. whoever your team is, you probably do the same- its just when ny does, it's louder.

when i say it's americas team, we do pool players from more countries in the world than any other in mlb.

Yep, the Yanks bought themselves yet another World Series. Another reminder why I don't watch baseball.

new episode of Fringe tonight?

JorgeBurrito said:Are you referring to me? I hate the fact that baseball has no true salary cap, and it results in teams in big markets like New York and Boston having such an advantage over the rest of the league. The fans then come and talk shit saying how much better their team is than everyone else...all I am pointing out is that they better damn well be considering the payroll disparity. I don't know why this offends you, it is a simple fact.
Just look at Cleveland. The last two AL Cy Young award winners were Indians (CC Sabathia and Cliff Lee...., the WS game 1 starters), but Cleveland had to trade them both away because we couldn't afford to pay them. Major market teams are able to stack the deck with their payrolls. MLB has a large number of "feeder" teams that are in the majors in name only.