[OddLane]

The only thing you can count on is the Yankees to choke once we hit October.

As reliable as death and taxes.

[Carriage Hill]

(((sniffles...)))

[fhayek]

Geez..You would think that everyone would be happy that writing checks doesn't guarantee championships.

Early prediction.. Yankees and Trump both win it all within a week of each other in 2020.

[wally_bert]

Hillary always being a Yankees fan didn’t help.

[Dilbert San Diego]

I think that, with additional layers of playoffs nowadays, it’s harder than ever to win a World Series.

Up until 1968, pennant winners in each league went directly to the World Series. Then with divisional play and playoffs, sometimes the best teams didn’t survive.

Example — the 1973 New York Mets with an 82-79 regular season record, defeated the 99-63 Cincinnati Reds in the playoffs to advance to the World Series.

[oldtech]

Guess that means the fans don’t have much to show for what they tossed down a rathole, either.

[Ken H]

“Over the past 10 regular seasons, they won 921 games, more than any other team in baseball.”

>>>>>>>>>>

This is a prime example of why the system is totally unfair. We need to abolish the World Series.

[Dawgreg]

Excuse me, I need a minute to try and be emotional and shed a tear.....

Well I tried. After the display of what the fans did to the Astros as far as disespect and mouthing off I’m delighted that CLASS won the division.....I’m an Astros fan and have been for over 40 years and they’ve always been respectful and decent but there comes a time when we as fans can say this and the players, through their own coach who told them not to react or be disrespectful in a letter, can let it be known that the best team won not only in scores but downright respect! If anyone thinks I’m wrong just tell me.....don’t call me names.....that upsets me and I don’t want to tell anyone on here to bite me......;) I love youse guys and want to continue to love you....;)

[Billthedrill]

Naw, I don’t see it that way. The point of baseball is to go to a game, enjoy the day, see great ball played by great players, and figure your team has a better than even chance of winning a game just to top it all off. The Yankees give their fans full value, the latter are just a little spoiled, that’s all. Just my $0.02.

[Clemenza]

Do you see me crying? I think I faintly hear the world’s smallest violin playing somewhere.

The Yankees represent the sports capitalism of the second half of the 20th century: buy them and they will win. Somebody failed to tell them that we are in the 21st century, and their business model on the buy side needs to be updated.

[Smellin Salt]

New York who? The “best” team money can buy

Go Stros!

Hell yeah

[JohnBrowdie]

despite what some fans and most sportswriters seem to think, winning the world series is incredibly difficult.

[a fool in paradise]

>>Over the past 10 regular seasons, they won 921 games, more than any other team in baseball.

Commissioner Hillary says that means they win the championship title for all 10 years.

[Wuli]

And where are NY pro baseball Fans going to go? Is the Mets peformance better?

Are the NY Yankees Owners/Parntners not making money? Do the networks keep supplying enough ad revenue? (Yankees get the most ad revenue of all the teams)

Maybe in all the ways that matter, at the end of the day, winning the world series isn’t everything.

I predict twenty years from now the NY Yankees will not have suceeded any better on the playing field than they have in the last ten years, will still be the top earner in ad revenue and will still be owned by a Steinbrenner.

“Winning” per say, does not fund expendtitures, on new players or whatever. Ad revenue doea.

[SuperLuminal]

Hmmm... So they spent a lot of money... Big deal!

I'd prefer to know what the owners net profits have been during this period... The purpose of a business (in capitalist system) is to earn profits... As long as those keep on rolling in, most everything else is secondary...

[ilgipper]

But profited how many billions. This is a team just starting to come into its own. Like Houston on 16 and the Cubs of 15. Add more starting pitching and refine the lineup, they win 110+ games.

[Verginius Rufus]

The New York Yankees have won 5 World Series titles in the past 23, better than any other team. They also played in two more World Series which they lost. But it's true that their last title was in 2009. Meanwhile, the Red Sox won four titles and the Giants won three in the same span.

This will be the first time the World Series is between two expansion clubs (started in 1961 or later).

Since New York City and Washington are probably the two most extreme centers of Trump Derangement Syndrome, I'm glad that the World Series is not between the Yankees and the Nationals.

I think Dick Cheney went to the first game the Nationals played at home after they moved from Montreal...and was booed by the fans.

[TBP]

And?

[TBP]

The last time that happened was 100 years ago, in the 1910s. What happened after that?

[TBP]

They should have walked Altuve.