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No one thought they could do it. Everyone questioned the money for Dice K and JD Drew. Even the Gagne pickup didn’t derail the train – though it almost did. Beantown gets it’s 7th World Series Title. The curse is gone. Forever. Perhaps Alex Rodriguez reversed it. And try as he might have to usurp the headlines on Sunday with news that he planned to opt out of his Yankee contract, almost assuring he’d played his last game in pinstripes, the real story is how the Red Sox have won 2 of the last 4 word series, surviving 7 elimination games in the ALCS in those years, and undoubtedly are the team of the decade so far.
Meanwhile, the Yankees continue to chase the wrong things. Perhaps they’ll continue to light their wallet on fire by paying for old broken down players who get to leave the team whenever they want. Perhaps they’ll continue to foster a cancerous atmosphere by throwing teammates under the bus, constantly criticizing the manager, and letting the CEO pick the lineup. With A-Rod chasing monster money in Chicago or Anaheim and Torre rejecting a crap offer to contine – it’s Joe Girardi’s ship to captain now:
ON DECK? Joe Girardi, who was a World Series studio analyst for Fox, could be announced today as the Yankees’ next manager.October 29, 2007 — The Yankees offered Joe Girardi their managerial position and are currently negotiating the terms of the contract, according to sources close to the discussions.
“The Yankees have offered Joe the opportunity to become their next manager. Discussions are ongoing,” Steve Mandell, Girardi’s agent, told ESPN.
SI.com reported that Girardi would receive a three-year, $6 million package to become Joe Torre’s replacement on the Yankee’s bench. However, Mandell told The Post that “there was nothing” to those numbers. “There’s nothing to that. We’re in discussions,” Mandell said at 1:50 p.m. today. “They’ve shown an interest in Joe. There’s no timetable on a deal. We’re just in discussions.”
So Yankee fans. Do you like apples?
While you tried to construct soulless over-the-hill all-star teams and trade away your best minor leaguers, The Marlins, White Sox, D-Backs, Angels, and Cardinals have all celebrated World Series titles – the Marlins in your own yard. The Red Sox cemented your status as the biggest chokes in all-time sports history for 2004 and now have 2 titles and a pennant to boot. And you just hired a curmudgeonly malcontent to manage your squad full of egos.
How do you like them apples? Ehhhh?
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It shouldn’t be surprising that the mighty Yankees, murderers row, and all the other cute nicknames, failed yet again in the post season. They’ve failed learn from their mistakes – namely having Big Stein meddle. Every one of his free agent pickups since Clemens has failed to make an impact. Yet the core of the championship teams were built from the sort of team development that occurred when Steinbrenner was suspended from day-to-day activities.
You would think that losing to the low payroll Marlins in 2003 would have given this guy a clue – but no – he goes and saves the Red Sox’s bacon by bringing Mr No-Clutch A-Rod after Boston’s numerous futile attempts. That was what undid the Babe Ruth curse and erased all the years of when the Sox couldn’t close the door. They closed it that year for good.
So you can feel bad for the real yankees in Jeter, Williams, Posada, and whoever else is left that came up through the system, but the ones hoping to jump on the bandwagon? Not so much. The Boss’ Daniel Snyder dreams of fantasy baseball in real life will fail every time until he learns to let the baseball people make baseball decisions instead of chasing the year’s biggest free agent or Cuban refugee. Scott Boras guys will kill your team.
As a Yankee hater, I hope the rumors of him getting rid of Torre for Pinella are true. Torre’s been the only steadying influence on that train wreck for the last few years with the free agent madness. He and Brian Cashman have continually acceeded to the Boss’ strange demands to make chicken salad out of expensive chicken manure.
All I can say is – buy stock in the NY Post and NY Daily News, because their back pages are gonna have a field day with Pinella and Steinbrenner.
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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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