1. You can buy players, but you can't buy A TEAM.
2. As the Yankees SHOULD HAVE LEARNED back in the 1960s when they got beaten by the Dodgers and Cardinals, good pitching ALWAYS defeats good hitting. Its an old cliche, but one of the truest.
3. What's left of the old late 90s lineup is showing its age.
4. Yankees are at their best when they draw from their own farm system (George Herman Ruth being the great exception) and at their worst when they try and depend on buying Marquee players (see the late 60s-early 70s, mid-late 1980s, and this decade).
5. Torre is a scapegoat. The buck stops with King George (who doesn't seem to learn from past mistakes) and Brian Cashman. Nevertheless, when heads are lobbed off, the manager is always the first to go to the guillotine.
You're kind of going overboard with that. The Mets have plenty of players they bought on their team. (and the highest payroll, by far, of any team remaining in the playoffs) And you know what, they were smart to sign Beltran, and the Yankees were dumb for not going after him. How many of the Mets pitchers didn't come from other teams? I don't understand why you wouldn't enjoy your teams success, instead of getting angry about other teams.