Why I do not like the Yanks..........

#26
#26
UTLCA said:
Pay George to be a Yankee?
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Yes. Being a Yankee is no better than being a Dodger. Yet Yankee fans (the majority) think that the players should consider themselves lucky that they get to play in that dump of a stadium and wear pinstripes.
 
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#29
Vercingetorix said:
So, UTLCA, are you a Patriots fan too? Miami Heat? Manchester United?
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I don't understand this though. There's no pattern here. The Pats don't pay a lot to their players. The Heat just won with a normal payroll, and Man U is English owned and do not pay as much as Chelsea or Barcelona or Milan.

If you're going with payroll you should ask, Redskins, Knicks/Mavericks, Chelsea.

If you're going with winners you should ask, Colts, Heat, Italy (or even Brazil since they're pretty much the best).
 
#30
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justingroves said:
Yes. Being a Yankee is no better than being a Dodger. Yet Yankee fans (the majority) think that the players should consider themselves lucky that they get to play in that dump of a stadium and wear pinstripes.
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That's not what I said at all though. I'd rather use the money we're giving A-Rod to pay Johan Santana to be our #1. How is that thinking he would consider himself lucky? Isn't that just a sound strategy
 
#32
#32
Okay, so I obviously didn't putting any real thought into that list. I was just wondering if you like to root for winners, is all.
 
#33
#33
UTLCA said:
That's not what I said at all though. I'd rather use the money we're giving A-Rod to pay Johan Santana to be our #1. How is that thinking he would consider himself lucky? Isn't that just a sound strategy
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See, this is the reason why everybody else hates the Yankees. Every other team in baseball (except maybe the Red Sox) would actually have to hope that Rodriguez voids his contract, so that they'd then have the money to make a run at Santana. For everybody else, it's either/or. The Yankees can just do it anyway, whether Rodriguez stays or not.
 
#34
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I mean I get it. But the Yankees aren't winners right now. In fact they are less of winners than the Cardinals, Red Sox, White Sox, Angels, Marlins, and Diamond Backs.
 
#36
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Vercingetorix said:
See, this is the reason why everybody else hates the Yankees. Every other team in baseball (except maybe the Red Sox) would actually have to hope that Rodriguez voids his contract, so that they'd then have the money to make a run at Santana. For everybody else, it's either/or. The Yankees can just do it anyway, whether Rodriguez stays or not.
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Yeah, but if we're paying A-Rod, then we shouldn't go after Santana. That's why we didn't go after Jason Schmit, Barry Zito, or even Dice-K
 
#37
#37
Fine Vol said:
Does it bother anyone else that they try to buy their wins? They buy the best players but do not get the best results and it makes me :) . If a Marlins team with less than half the payroll can smoke them then $ is not what they should be concentrating on. OK let me have it!!!!!!!!
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It does not bother me at all that Steinbrenner is willing to spend his money to try to win championships. Some owners choose to pocket most of the profits, George chooses to spend a large chunk of it. I don't fault either ownership style.
 
#38
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tidwell said:
When did you start pulling for the Yankees, UTLCA?
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I was born in '86. My first baseball game was in 1991, Yankees vs. Mariners. My parents had season tickets since we lived in CT, about 45 min away. They had been in NY since the Reggie Jackson days when my dad went to Columbia. Then, when I moved to NC in 93, there was no local team to root for, although the Twins almost moved to the Piedmont Triad, but the citizens wouldn't approve a 1% restaurant tax to build a stadium...so I remained a Yankees fan. Trust me, I remember when the Yankees were on pace to break the single season wins record in '94 before the strike happened.
 
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Oh yeah, and the Greensboro Hornets were also a minor league affiliate of the Yankees. I got to see Derek Jeter play a season before he went up. Also, Jorge, Mariano, and Jimmy Key during rehab starts.
 
#41
#41
UTLCA said:
I don't understand this though. There's no pattern here. The Pats don't pay a lot to their players. The Heat just won with a normal payroll, and Man U is English owned and do not pay as much as Chelsea or Barcelona or Milan.

If you're going with payroll you should ask, Redskins, Knicks/Mavericks, Chelsea.

If you're going with winners you should ask, Colts, Heat, Italy (or even Brazil since they're pretty much the best).
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but that doesnt apply to the yankees because they suck and havent won anything in a while.
 
#44
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vols kick balls said:
that makes since. We have a good player at third so we dont need any pitchers:crazy:
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Yeah that's what I said.

Or it could have been that our payroll is too high as it is, and with A-Rod's contract, Cashman didn't want to spend 126 million on a pitcher. But.......without A-Rod, we can better afford to pay Santana. Nice try
 
#46
#46
UTLCA said:
Yeah, but if we're paying A-Rod, then we shouldn't go after Santana. That's why we didn't go after Jason Schmit, Barry Zito, or even Dice-K
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Jason Schmidt is 34 and mediocre. The Giants way overpaid for Zito. Matsuzaka is an unknown quantity. None of those are probably worth throwing a lot of money at. Santana is, and the Yankees will. Whether Rodriguez is still there or not.
 
#47
#47
I disagree. If A-Rod is still a Yankee for sure before the Free Agent signing period, there's no way the Yankees will go after him unless the Red Sox or Blue Jays are.
 
#48
#48
Well, that's the rub. The arms race between the Yankees and the Red Sox -- the two richest franchises in the game, by a long shot -- pretty much ensures that no significant free agents are going to go by without their contracts being influenced by the AL East. If either team has an interest in Santana, then both teams will, and even if he goes somewhere else, it'll be for more than he otherwise would -- further cramping that team's payroll in a way that the Yankees and Red Sox never would be.
 
#49
#49
Talk to the Player's Union about that. Sorry, but if the Red Sox have a chance at this generation's best pitcher, then the Yankees are going to do something and not let their archrival have a guy that could derail the Yankees playoff chances. It would be stupid not to.
 
#50
#50
UTLCA said:
I was born in '86. My first baseball game was in 1991, Yankees vs. Mariners. My parents had season tickets since we lived in CT, about 45 min away. They had been in NY since the Reggie Jackson days when my dad went to Columbia. Then, when I moved to NC in 93, there was no local team to root for, although the Twins almost moved to the Piedmont Triad, but the citizens wouldn't approve a 1% restaurant tax to build a stadium...so I remained a Yankees fan. Trust me, I remember when the Yankees were on pace to break the single season wins record in '94 before the strike happened.
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You're a different breed of Yankee fan than most I encounter. At least you've been to the stadium and know a little bit about them.

The overwhelming majority know nothing about them, yet cheer them on.
 
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