| ThurgreedMarshall |
02-19-2004 01:26 PM |
yawn
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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
The majority of Yankees fans I've spoken with think the trade is great, but have also admitted that the difference in budgets in MLB is embarrassing and they feel a little guilty about it.* And that the Yankees are losing their mystique by purchasing mercenaries instead of developing homegrown players.
No matter, when the Yankees don't win it all this year, it will be much more embarrassing to be a Yankee fan than a fan of any other team that didn't win. I'm looking forward to Steinbrenner's heart attack.
*Not towards Red Sox fans of course. But to the rest of baseball.
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I agree with all your Yankee fan friends. I think it's silly that baseball is set up the way it is. But I give Steinbrenner credit for actually caring about his team enough to want to win every year. And no one is a bigger joke than John Henry who begged Selig to not let the trade go through because it's "bad for baseball" (read: bad for Boston) and then contacted the media to let them know that he was in favor of a salary cap (presumably a 121 million one, since Boston has the second highest payroll in baseball) because one team was using its resources to the detriment of all the others. What a cry baby, whiny hypocrite.
And mystique isn't built on developing homegrown players (like Jeter, Mariano, Bernie, Posada and, to a certain extent, Soriano). It's about winning championships and the tradition that goes with winning championships.
In that last paragraph, you sound like a frustrated Iraqi, sitting in a hole in the ground with your friends talking about how the US will bring itself down with its greed and arrogance someday. Boy will all the US citizens be sorry then! Kind of sad.
TM |
