Posted on 11/04/2009 9:26:39 PM PST by GoldStandard
You have to go to some of the RED SOX baseball forums and read what they have to say. Never have I seen such pure hared exhibited for a sports team as these people have for the NYY (to befair, the exhibit this same hatred towards anyone or anything not in their little world).
The actually want certain players dead, complain incessantly that the umps are being paid off, etc.
I had the misfortune to spend 12 years in MA and can tell you from exprence these are the most hate filled people imaginable, especially toward anyone not deemed “one of them”
There is a term used to describe citizens of MA (not coined by me) and that’s “Massholes”. There is reason for this.
Have you a problem with our system of capitalism? Or are you saying somehow the NNY broke he law, did something unethical or perhaps even outright dishonest?
Was there any celebratory looting in Gotham City?
The best team money can buy. Jerry Jones is jealous.
That’s very classy of you! I’m glad the Yankees had to battle the best of the NL to win the World Series...
# 1 is hated by many and is loved by many, not just in sports but in everything else in life. Go Yankees, the most successful team in all sports.
A guy could walk around NYC all day wearing Red Sox gear and he would not be harassed. Not a good idea to wear Yankee gear in Boston. Very likely you will get your ass kicked.
Red Sox fans are basically a bunch of malcontents. They can't get over the fact that the owner of the club traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1919. The Red Sox owner sold the Babe so he could finance a Broadway play called No No Nanette. So basically the money stayed in NY, NY got the Babe and Boston got screwed.
This eats away at Red Sox fans to this day.
I thought that was the whole idea about being successful. You hire the best people in the business for your particlar line of work. Then you give them the tools and support they need to beat the crap out of the competition. If they don't produce you cut them loose.
Is this just a New York concept? Is money evil?
I think the argument, a valid one, is that the Yankees have a built-in advantage due to their location in a big market and thus have more t.v. and other revenues to buy better talent. I guess you could argue that the Yankees are better capitalists because they chose to locate in a big market, but I don't think that holds much water.
You guys are full of it. I’ve lived in Boston my whole life. Many, many people walk around in Yankee gear and they don’t get beat up. Yes, we love our teams, as do New Yorkers.
I would say 30% of our fans act like d*bags. But 30% of New York fans act like D*bags too. That’s just the way it is.
As for us obsessing over the Babe?! You’ve gotta be kidding. We’re a little too busy relishing our 6 world titles in 3 sports over the last 8 years.
We have nothing to complain about as we try and “buy” just as much talent as the Yankees do. But yes, some of our fans still complain.
Overall though, Boston D*baggery = New York D*baggery.
Actually baseball was introduced into Japan in the 1860s. When Babe Ruth and others toured the country in the 1930s the game was already big there.
One thing about any Yankees thread is that it reveals all of the closet socialists. Kinda like turning on a light and seeing the roaches scatter.
As a Cleveland guy, it’s in our genes to hate Steinbrenner and Modell.
I only played catcher and I always wore #8.
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Professional sports has nothing to do with capitalism...these are cartels, just like OPEC. The Yankees = the Saudi Royal Family.
Still, the Yanks played by the rules as promulgated by the cartel. So be it.
The problem is that MLB is supposed to be an entertaining and competitive sport. If the deck is so heavily stacked in favor of a few teams, there's no competition. We know the end result, so why watch? You might as well go see a high school team beat the stuffings out of a pee-wee league team. There's nothing interesting about it. The point's been made and proven. Money buys the best, and the best usually beats the second-best. Gee. How exciting. I can't wait for next year for the same lesson to be exhibited again!
That's why the NFL is absolutely destroying baseball, both in the ratings and as an American sport. Salary caps and revenue-sharing bring parity, and "any given Sunday" becomes a reality. The Yankees raise eyebrows more when they DON'T make the AL Championship. It's a big-market league, and the rest of the country simply isn't as interested in NY-CHI-LA worship as they once were. Unless and until MLB changes their rules, they'll simply continue their slow decline.
MLB Payroll, 2008 (source):
1. New York Yankees $209,081,577
2. New York Mets $137,793,376... $71,288,201 behind, which is more than 11 teams' (1/3 of MLB) entire payrolls
3. Detroit Tigers $137,685,196
4. Boston Red Sox $133,390,035
5. Chicago White Sox $121,189,332
...
27. Pittsburgh Pirates $48,689,783
28. Oakland Athletics $47,967,126
29. Tampa Bay Rays $43,820,597
30. Florida Marlins $21,811,500 ... barely 10% of the Yankees.
I've got nothing against the rich getting richer. I'm a fervent laissez-faire capitalist... but this isn't government. This is entertainment and sport, and when the sport has the rules clearly stacked in favor of a few teams, it isn't very entertaining for anyone outside of those few markets. That, along with the strike of '94, are the primary reasons I barely pay any attention to baseball at all anymore.
(Another comparison: In F-1, Michael Schumacher finished in the top 2 in almost every race that he finished for 5 years, including in 41 of 45 races from 2000-2002, and 62 of 77 from 2000-2004 (with 8 DNFs total). He won the Championship in 2002 before the season was 60% over. Exactly what is competitive about that? Why bother watching at all?)
You know Cleveland is puzzling to me. When they built the Jake they spent lots of money on their team but they sold out every game for years. They had success on the field AND they made money. If they had kept CC and Lee would they have been in the series? I’d say they would have had a good chance.
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