Why do Red Sox fans say the Yankees "buy" their world series...?

Question

When that's all they do too. The Yankees have many more players from their farm system on their roster. Proof:

Red Sox homegrown:
DelCarmen
Papelbon
Pedroia
Youkilis

3 Players

Yankees:
Henn
Pettitte
Proctor
Rivera
Wang
Posada
Cano
Jeter
Cabrera
Thompson
Hughes
Karstens

12 - 3, that enough proof 4 the jealous Red Sox fans.

Might I mention that this was most of the 2004 roster, so if u guys didn't buy the 2004 series, than the Yankees never even remotely came close 2 buying all 26.

What's Stienbrenner supposed 2 do with the money, give it away 2 tha Marlins or the Devil Rays. NO!! He spends it cause he wants 2 win, and he gets rewarded by selling out every game.

Remember baseball has become a buisiness, unfortunately

Answer 1

They do that just to try to get more fans to hate the Yankees.
It's total BS!

The Yankees had a solid core with Pettitte, Jeter, Rivera, Posada, and Williams for those four world series that they won. All of these players are home grown talent and there was no reason to bring up people when these guys had solidified their positions.

And dead sox fans should talk. They have the second highest payroll in baseball and that will go up big time when they have to give Paplebon his phatt contract in a few.

Answer 2

It's funny to hear that the yankees choke in the postseason! lol obviously there were 26 times they didn't choke. But I guess when you've been there so many times you're bound to lose now and then. maybe in 100 years sox fans will see that but probably not. Actually the whole thing of the yankees buying championships was born in the 70's when free agencey was new and pretty much everyone was trying it. The yankees simply had more money and an owner willing to spend it. It paid off. It didn't work so well in the 80's and by the 90's they had gone back to the homegrown route with free agents to support those players. Plus the simple fact is the yankees are the big stage, they have that tradition and level of excellence that excellent players gravitate towards, so of course they are always in the running for top talent. The only thing wrong with the 12-3 statement is that although proctor was in the NY farm system he's actually a dodger product and was aquired in the ventura trade along with bubba crosby. Still though the NY system did primarily develop him. Karstens, and Thompson came via other organizations and I'm pretty sure henn did too. Until the sox (not that it will eever happen in all probablity)catch up to the magic 26 or whatever that number grows to before they can catch up, sox fans will cling to any excuse for their decades of being second. Sox fans will bash me but it's the truth and I live in the heart of sox nation, so I hear it every single day. As for looking at yankee history and saying they were all built around guys from othe teams---Did ya forget the 50's when they were most dominate? mantle, ford, berra, howard, rizzuto, kubek, richardson, et al...? Sounds pretty homegrown to me. Actually the yankees were basically a homegrown type organization from the mid 20's until steinbrenner came along. Of course there were some huge aqusitions from other teams such as Ruth, bauer, Ruffing, Mize, maris, etc...but every team did that. It's just easier for SOME sox fans to say the yankees buy championships than admit they were outplayed over the last century.

Answer 3

Ok the Yankees will never sell out all 90,000 seats in Yankee Stadium 1. And 2 he does buy the World Series , or tries . My first example is Carl Pavano , the Red Sox wanted him badly and the Yankees purposly offered him more money just so the Red Sox couldn't get him. Sucks to be them though because he's out all year. My second example is Alex Rodriguez. The Red Sox were in the lead is acquiring A-Rod until the Yankees made an outragous offer that anybody with a brain would take. They didn't need him , they just didn't want the Red Sox to get him.

Answer 4

I wonder if the fact the Yankees time their drama to steal other people's thunder ever entered your thought process. During the Steinbrenner era the Yankees have been famous for doing whatever it takes to stay in the limelight after the team has been eliminated. The Yankees are the reason MLB instituted the rule several years back that you cannot make announcements about your team during the World Series that may detract from the Series. Like most of America, MLB got sick and tired of these attention hogs. Be that as it may. The real bottom line is ask ANY Yankee player if he'd rather his team had massive media coverage or a ring and I suspect you'd get 100% agreement that they would've preferred a ring.

Answer 5

Deciding between who is more guilty of being spending whores is like trying to decide who is a better serial killer.Teams like the Kansas City Royals are used like a farm system for many of the larger market teams. KC would have an awesome outfield of Dye, Damon and Beltran if the salary structure was similar to the NFL or NHL. Instead the Red Sox and Yankees (among others) wait for these players to become free agents, over pay for them, and somehow claim that their organization have a "divine" right to screw everyone else. That is why baseball is more like the WWE than the NFL. Steinbrenner has become Vince McMahon and John Henry is Captain Lou Albano or vice versa. Bring on a hard cap and let the best organization win!!!!!

Answer 6

First of all, your Yankee list is a tad ascue. You're mentioning some guys that have been brought up from the farm for about a week. If that's your case, I can list a bunch of Red Sox players in the same fashion. I mean c'mon...Thompson? Hughes? Kartsans? Henn? Give me a break.

Second, your bringing up arguments from years ago when the Yanks would annually spend about $80-90 million more than the second place Sox.

Now that the Sox have trimmed that to about $50 million, the argument no longer exists.

Now that they're spending around the same (although $50 million is still a pretty huge difference), we can finally look at each team on a more equal level.

Let's see...Sox have a NINE game lead.

We win!

Answer 7

I have heard this experesson for years and always shook my head. Coming from Chicago, you can understand that none of our sports teams ever buy the best players, except the 85-95 Bulls. The reasoning is that Chicago will fill the stadiums with sports fans anyway, due to the overpopulation of the city.

So why should the owners care about winning? Sad, but it is true to say that these owners aren't real sports fans. They only care about lining their fat asses and wallets with overpriced tickets, overpriced parking and overpriced food/drink.

Now Steinbrenner, on the other hand, is a win conscious owner. He CARES if he wins or loses. He wants to win, he is a sports fan. So when they win from providing a good team and good coaching, they are successful and can reap the rewards. These rewards can afford to improve the team when players retire or fail to perform (or fail to stay off of drugs).

So, the teams that have a smaller "budgets" for players are usually the teams with overpaid execs, who actually hate the game and therefore don't care about winning.

If you had a company making artificial hearts, wouldn't you want the best people that you could hire to work for you, too?

Answer 8

Both teams buy their World Series. But the Yankees make bigger purchases because their payroll is much larger than the BoSox.

Bring the salary cap to baseball!!! I think baseball with a salary cap would look more like NHL hockey and NFL football (different champions each year), than NBA basketball (fewer teams win the championship).

Right now I would hate to be a Royals or Devil Rays fan. They really have to sell their best players when they reach a certain point in their careers.

Answer 9

Because they are just jealous of all the rings the Yankees have. And you're right what is Steinbrenner supposed to do with all that money? I mean it's not his fault he has all that money. He's a very smart man and had to have done something right to get all that money. And really the Red Sox fans shouldn't be complaining about anything, they are the 2nd richest team in baseball. So, they should just shut up and deal with it.

Answer 10

The Yankees pay HUGE money to get players or keep players...when MLB players think Yankees they think Big Money.
I really don't use that argument anymore because the Sox are catching up with money spent.
But your fighting this all wrong...when we say buy we mean money spent on players nothing to do with farm league...The Sox trade those guys to fill holes we have.