Cheer up Yankee-haters and keep this in mind…
First and foremost, let me state for the record that I am neither a Phillies nor a Yankees fan. My team (the Giants) watched the World Series the same way I did – from my couch with one eye on the tube and the other on my laptop trying to improve my fantasy football roster. (What, you don’t think Pablo Sandoval cares about his fantasy team, too?)
After the Yankees won last night, I did an all-Bronx Bombers post and barely mentioned the Phillies. I talked about how New York found the pitching it needed to get over the hump and how homegrown players like Derek Jeter, Mariano Rivera and Jorge Posada once again stepped up in the clutch. If you’re a Yankee fan, do yourself a favor and stop reading this post immediately and skip right to the one I wrote last night.
If you’re a Phillies fan or a Yankee-hater: Enjoy.
Sure, the Yankees might have bought their 27th championship this year, but let’s take a moment to rain on their parade by keeping all this in mind:
– After stealing all the momentum in the 2001 World Series by winning three straight games against the Diamondbacks to take a 3-2 series lead, they embarrassed themselves in Game 6 by losing 15-2 and then allowed guys like Mark Grace, Tony Womack and Luis Gonzalez to beat them in Game 7…with their ace closer Mariano Rivera on the mound no less.
– They had the best record in baseball in 2002, yet lost to the Rally Monkey in the postseason. The Rally Monkey! (That said, let me take a moment to say “F” that stupid Ebola-infested Rally Monkey on behalf of my Giants.)
– In 2003, they again had one of the best records in baseball (the Braves had an identical 103-61 record), yet lost to the NL Wild Card-winning Marlins in the Fall Classic.
– In 2004…well, we all know what happened in 2004. It’s the reason why we have “Red Sox Nation” and why the term “epic fail” is used today.
– Despite their massive payroll, the Yankee$ choked in the Division Series not once, but three times in a row from 2005 to 2007. They also completely missed the playoffs in 2008 with the highest payroll in baseball. How does that happen?
On top of this, let’s not forget that the Yankees outbid themselves to acquire A-Rod and had four players that tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs: Roger Clemens, Andy Pettitte, Jason Giambi and Rodriguez.
So ask yourself this, would you trade in nine years of embarrassment for one championship?
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Now thats good stuff right there I don’t care who you are ! They bought it – they know it – but they won’t admitt it.
They just went 9 years without a Championship and without changing any spending habits that I know of. Spending doesn’t insure you win, it’s helps but alot of Teams spend money. They piss it away and so has the Yankee.
They hit it right this year becuase the high paid talent had chemistry……. and that’s what made the difference and it made the difference in the years they lost to…. they didn’t have it then.
People want to rant and rave and I say have at…
The Yankee won and I’m good with that.
OMG!!! 9 whole years???? That must’ve been hell!
You can all rant all you want – the sad part is (unless your drinking yankee cool aid) That the yankees don’t win unless they spend a gazzilion dollars. Nobody else has that, or makes it in revenue, so it’s theirs to win or lose every year. It’s pathetic that they only won once in nine years – but the sad news is in this pathetic system is that they are the favorites for every year in the future because they have the most resources and most money. So that means they win – unless they just blow it. Why do we have to accept one team as a favorite every year ? (NO OTHER SPORTS DO) Because they have the most money they should win ? I know – I know it doesn’t gaurente a win = but lets face it kids whoever YOU are rooting for you will have to get through them. NOT because they are better – because they can buy the most.
The yankees are the favorites – look it up for next year already and you can pencil them in until Bud and the Union and whoever else wakes the hell up. Your only hope out there friends is if your team is a “Cinderella” team and somehow the yankees cough it up to you. So good luck with that. You are Cinderella and they are playing Fantasy Baseball ! This is freakin fun hah ? Only if you are a yankee fanatic. It’s their League and it’s run by Bud,Cashman and Boras….
Unless you are a yankee fan, nothing really happened this year except a few more guys got popped for PED’s and Manny was Manny.
The yankees paid big bucks in the offseason spent another $483 in future salaries. They won the most games and the series.Very predictable and non-eventfull.Shouldn’t they do this every year ? Whop-de-do.
I haven’t watched in a month … thank God for football/basketball/Hockey season. At least there is not one team in those sports that are allowed to run wild.
The yankees are an absolute disgrace. They have never sought to achieve anything, they just go out and nuy it. Great that you pointed out that they have had such failure in the face of the fact that they have had had the highest payroll, by far, in baseball for all these seasons. They are all about destroying a once great sport.