They seem to be defending themselves these days more than they are being attacked.
2007-09-28 02:19:16 · 20 answers · asked by Joshua W 1 in Sports ➔ Baseball
They have the richest payroll in baseball, yet they never want to admit that this is the reason they can buy the best players and win enough games to make it to the post-season. I admire their history, but curse their advantage.
2007-09-28 02:22:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Sure it takes talent to win. I think Yankees fans have this sense of entitlement that they deserve the best players. Look at a team like the Twins...they produce the best talent and after the player has produced like he was given the opportunity too. He is gone. Look at Johan santana? They can kiss his *** good bye to the Yankees or Red Sox. The Red Sox are just as guilty as the Yankees...the only difference is that they didn't start the ludicrous bidding war. Go back to the early 80's when Kansas City was the team to beat! Now the have no chance because of how small market they are. The players they have produced like Johnny Damon and Carlos Beltran are both playing in big markets...weird. Small markets don't stand a chance unless they spend big one year like Florida has done and then dump all there players the next year. Do you blame them? If you are a Yankee fan...you do! If you are a Red Sox fan you do! A salary cap is the only way any team would stand a chance. Parity like the NFL would be nice!
2007-09-28 09:39:30 · answer #2 · answered by Rob M 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is absolutely not true. We are defensive because we are sick of hearing about it, and it just creates more hatred of the Yankees. The fact is, the Yankees stunk for the first two months, it was their younger players who brought them back. A-Rod was carrying the Yankees, Jeter and Posada were having good years, but other than that, nothing. I
If we are being defensive it is because the old "Yankees bought their way into the playoffs" is a fallacy. Yeah, the Yankees have a lot of big contracts, but they didn't do much good when the Yankees were 21-29, fourteen games behind Boston and 9 1/2 back in the wild card race, did it? It was Cano, Wang, Cabrera, Chamberlain, who helped bring them back, and they even got boosts from Shelly Duncan, Phil Hughes, and Ian Kennedy.
Besides, wouldn't YOU be defensive if you had to read that crap every day? Especially when you consider that they didn't spend outrageously last winter like the Cubs ($136 Million for Soriano), San Francisco ($125 Million for Zito) and Boston ($103 million for the rights and then to sign Dice-K). You could say Roger Clemens, but did he really help the Yankees? No, he was not much of a factor at 6-6.
2007-09-28 11:05:54 · answer #3 · answered by Jeffrey S 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Send a letter to the Commisioner. The Yankees play within the rules set forth and agreed upon by all the owners. Nobody complains when they get their share of the luxury tax that the Yankees pay. By no means is George Steinbrenner the richest owner in baseball. If other teams want to pocket the extra revenue instead of investing back into the team, then they have to answer to their fans.
The Yankees have not won the WS since 2000, yet they have spent more basically every year. So much for buying a championship.
To Rob N: The Marlins did not "spend big" as you say in 2003 when they won. They had a $54M payroll. Hardly big spenders.
To Pat W:
Paul O'Neill was not home grown talent for the Yankees. He was traded from Cincinnatti for Roberto Kelly.
2007-09-28 09:36:49 · answer #4 · answered by MauriceChavez 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
OK, look at this, hypocrite. You're attacking right now!!!!
Anyways, let me show you some major contracts on the Yankee's payroll. All these guys are career Yankees.
Derek Jeter
Andy Pettitte (Basically)
Hideki Matsui
Jorge Posada
Mariano Rivera
Robinson Cano
Melky Cabrera
Kei Igawa
Chien-Ming Wang
That is 77.9 million dollars of payroll out of 198.6 used on guys that have never been out of a Yankee uniform in MLB baseball.
Here are the guys that have spent most or a good part of their careers with the Yankees.
Roger Clemens
Mike Mussina
Alex Rodriguez
Carl Pavano (lol)
That's another 73.7 Million.
That's 151.6 Million.
2007-09-28 20:44:21 · answer #5 · answered by GoYankees353 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an avid Yankee fan. I dont think the Yanks buy their way to the play off every year. What people keep forgetting that the Yankee players are people too and they can have bad days just like the rest of us and can lose a game. That is all I am saying as a Yankee fan. I love them though and I will stick by them even if they lose. I will just be depressed and down, but I still stick by them. They came a long way since April dont you think?
2007-09-28 09:52:05 · answer #6 · answered by Mary 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
you ppl make sound like if that is cheating if any other team had the means to buy the best players they would do so too.
And yes we have the best players and yes we make it every year to the playoffs and you cant say that about your team. They earn it by playing awesome baseball through out the season. Stop hating on us because your team cant be as good as the Yankees.
2007-10-05 22:06:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the Yankees started their winning streak back in 1996 they had a lot home grown talent. Derek Jeter, Mariano Riveria, Bernie Williams, Paul O'Neill and Andy Pettitte. The Yankees have spent a lot on just keeping their own players where as most teams would have said "Sorry, we just can't afford you anymore." I'm not sure where the team would be if they didn't have their captain Derek Jeter or Jorge Posada which Joe Torre refers to as his most valuable player on the team.
Also, over the last 10 years the Yankees have pulled off some impressive trades acquiring some big name players like Bobby Abreu and Alex Rodriguez. Remember it wasn't the Yankees who signed A-Rod to a $252 Million dollar contract, it was Texas.
The Yankees do spend a lot of players, but it's unfair to say they just bought their team. They do acquired their fair share of free agents, but they wouldn't be the contender they are today without their home grown talent and crafty trades.
2007-09-28 09:41:16 · answer #8 · answered by Pat W 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Yankees fans -- not all of them, but many, mainly the ones others love to hate -- are trapped in a triangular co-dependency.
YF love their team, but the team doesn't love them. And this will never change.
YF also want to be loved by others, but fans of other teams cannot stand them. YF are not lovable, or at least rarely if ever behave in ways that will engender love or even fellow-fan goodwill. YF will never get a break from other fans.
The only possible way to break their cycle is to have the Yankees lose, and the only loss that will be significant enough to begin the healing is missing out on the postseason altogether, preferably for a plurality of seasons; three at least.
There is an entire, youthful generation of Yankees fen who have never had a dark October -- the Yankees are always on teevee. They don't know what the alternative is like, and the only way to learn it is to experience it.
I really hope this is the Yankees' last gasp, and they fall for a few years, maybe resurfacing in 2011.
Yankees fen cannot realize it, but it would be for their own good.
Denial and unyielding co-dependency together is an ugly thing.
2007-09-28 10:52:38 · answer #9 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Other teams try to "buy" a playoff spot and come up short. I give the Yankees credit for spending and being in the playoffs. At least they are willing to spend and become a winner as is demanded in NY.
2007-09-28 10:59:15 · answer #10 · answered by DaKnights 4 · 3⤊ 1⤋
There is spending and smart spending. If they want to go give a huge contract to an over the hill vet why does anyone else care? The Red Sox are just as bad. Those teams practically support the poor teams like KC and Florida who refuse to spend money or even try to be good. Teams like the A's and Twins do more with less every year. As long as they try to be good let them do it however they want.
2007-09-28 14:36:24 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋