Some folks may agree with that statement. I don't. Need I remind people.
26 World Series Championships and 39 AL pennants.
The New York Yankees are the most successful sports team/franchise in the history of sports. Boston deserves all the credit for coming back down three games to none and winning the series. But this is only one season.
The Yankees will be back and they will be champs again. Btw, George Steinbrenner is a great owner. He has put together some of the best teams in baseball history. Look for the Yanks to pick up at least two quality starters for next season.
Not likely....he's just about stuck at $200 million next year in payroll, he's in major luxury tax bracket and with baseball's socialistic policies, he has to revenue share.
He wants:
Beltran, Richie Sexton, Mike Lowell, Carl Pavano and Brad Radke. Signing even 3 of these guys means another $30-35 million and at some point, the dam breaks. Plus, signing free agents means you lose your first round draft picks which that farm system cannot afford to lose.
They won in the 90's with home grown talent. The free agents have helped but not won them a championship. Now they are stuck with Brown (trade), Giambi, Musina, Sheffield, A-Rod and Jeter contracts. Still good players but untradeable.
Um, no, you DON'T need to remind anyone. One of the reasons people dislike the Yankees, and even more so, their fans, is because of their tendency to "remind" everyone of their past success.
Besides, if the Yankees had won every World Series since the dawn of time, it wouldn't change the fact that they CHOKED, BIG TIME! Their 26 World Series and 39 pennants don't erase that reality. They blew what up until last night had been an insurmountable lead.
But that's what you get when you spend $190 million on a bunch of all-stars who are far more interested in their own incomes, careers, and images, than they are in being part of a team. Money can buy you talent (and lots of drooling, fist-pumping morons in the stands), but it can't buy you heart.
So they got the flu. It will make them appreciate their health all the more when they get better.
The past is not relevant in this case, it was a Chizzz-oke!
No team has ever done what the sox did. Or what the yankees did either.
Each team is essentially new after about 5 years. The fact that they won in the late 90's is meaningless here.
Yah and I think Randy Johnson might be one of them, but Steinbreener didn't want to give Posada to the D'backs before the deadline so I'm not sure who he'd trade. The pitching dilemma might keep the Yanks out of the Carlos Beltran sweepstakes, though.
Until the sun winks out, last nights loss will stand as the record for playoff failure. You can't choke any worse in a 7 game play-off than to be up 3 and lose 4. There is no loss worse than that. The Yankees will always own that record since other teams can only equal it and never do worse and the Yankees did it first.