Down Go the Yankees!
Even though the Detroit Tigers are a division rival, I can’t tell you the amount of elation I felt yesterday watching the $200 million Yankees team lose to their $80 million counterparts. I can’t stand the Yankees with their fans gripping their hands tightly in the stands hoping as hard as they can that their team “might find a way to get it done.” That look should be reserved for fans of teams that don’t have every single advantage in the history of the universe at their disposal. And that look is so much sillier when you are the overpaid favorites in every single series and game you play every single year.
So farewell to the 2006 Yankees. Here’s to A-Rod going to another team next year, resurrecting his career and guiding whatever new team that might be to defeat the Yankees next year.
And before any of you comment, I will have you know that I don’t identify with any of you Red Sox fans out there. Your team may be a distant second with $120 million payroll, but you would be the Yankees too if you could afford it.
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how absolutely hilarious is it that the Red Sox didn’t even make the playoffs with their $120 million payroll AND got beat by Toronto for 2nd place in the AL East, while the $200 million Yankees didn’t make it past the first round?
GO OAKLAND!
Every team in the league would be the Yankees, if they could afford it.
CORRECTION: Here’s to A-Rod being dealt to another team and putting up great stats until it actually means something, and then folding at the 1st sign of any signifigant pressure.
I understand that everyone would be the Yankees if they could afford it. Doesn’t mean it is any less distasteful.
And the reason that I am harsh with the Red Sox is that their fans are the first to scream about the yankees when they are one of the only other teams in the ballpark when it comes to unbelievable free agents.
heard a great stat last night on ESPN - the yankees have spent $975 million on payroll since 2001, and have 0 world series championships to show for it.
good use of a billion, georgie.