Do Yankee fans like apples?
I hate the Yankees, not so much because of the neverending coverage on what are supposed to be national sports shows, but mainly because Steinbrenner thinks he owns baseball and that spending $200M on a team when others don’t even spend $100M - or in some cases $50M is good for the product of baseball.
Everytime this sport has f’d itself, I prayed for an end. I prayed for some sort of deathblow and it keeps coming back (thanks in part to roids and the Wild Card and realignment).
But it’s been somewhat gratifying to see 5 years in a row now teams with lesser budgets and lesser headline players just crush the Yanks every year. It’s also telling that when Big Stein was suspended from Day-to-Day operations was when the Yankees actually took off, developed prospects and moved them up, and put together a winner. It’s ashamed a quality guy like Don Mattingly couldn’t have hung on a few more years to get a ring as a player.
But now with Big Stein forcing bad baseball decisions and breathing down guys’ necks like Torre and Cashman, big name prospects from Cuba and big name free agents get pushed into the lineup too early, solid prospects being groomed get traded for injury prone past-their-prime pitchers, and uber free-agents come in and “get on their roller skates in the outfield” and contribute nothing in critical moments.
Oakland will never win a title with Moneyball, but they know how to work their farm system. The Marlins with piss poor local support but good baseball minds has won 2 world series in a town that just doesn’t care. The Sox punked the Yankees in Yankee stadium, and previously unknown Angels and Diamond Backs put them down.
Hey Yankee fan - you like apples? The biggest payroll in baseball has now lost 5 consecutive years in the playoffs in decisive games - once even against a team with 25% of the payroll. How do ya like them apples?
YANKEES LOSE. THEEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES LOOOOOOOOSE.
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