Any Yankee fans out there

Foodosaurus
They are the best team, and they buy their way in.  Yankee mystique is long dead.  It's Yankee money that wins championships.  Most teams do to some extent, but the Yankees have an overwhelming advantage. 

How is that different from the past? The number of dollars is growing, but teams that were willing to spend money have always won.

cavandre
That dictionary must have been printed in Boston!

Nah. Chicago prints stuff. http://www.rrdonnelley.com/wwwRRD1/AboutUs/AboutUs.asp Notice the address on Wacker Drive in Chicago. This is the largest printing firm in the world, and got to be that due to the proximity to Wisconsin's paper mills, the railroad, port and O'Hare airport facilities which make shipping their product easier than it would be almost anywhere else, and the work ethic of most of us in the Midwest, which I'll brag about even though I'm typing all these posts at work.

wanderingjew
Like Mariano Rivera would ever lead a  "Red Sox Suck cheer

Maybe "Who's Your Daddy" conveniently forgetting how ignominiously the Yankees lost Game 7 over that very shout in 2004.
 
I've worn Green and Gold in Soldier Field and got a lot of vocal abuse, but no physical abuse whatever, from the Oompa Loompas.

NC Cheesehead
No doubt the Yankees are a great team.  But they should be with the payroll they have. Same old same old.  Yankees bought Sabathia from the Brewers. 

Funny you should mention the Brewers, especially given the etymology of the word "cheesehead"

cavandre
I agree but don't find them as obnoxious as what happens when the Dallas Cowboys get on a roll. I've been ticked off at them since they anointed themselves "America's Team". Now that they play in Jerky Jones' Cathedral to Greed, I find them the easiest team to root against on the planet.

They were America's Team when Roger Staubach played for them after serving in Viet Nam as a Navy Supply Officer.
 
They can have it. I went to a Green Bay bar in JAPAN!

saps
Which one?  1907 or 1908?

How about 1906, when the Cubs posted the BEST RECORD IN BASEBALL HISTORY, only to get walloped by the White Sox in the Series? We [the Cubs] still won more games than any team in any professional sport!

saps
You go ahead and enjoy Ruth and Gehrig.  That 1907 Cubs team had legends such as Heinie Zimmerman and Orval Overall (not kidding).

And the Saddest of All Possible Words.

EatingTheRoad

Now THAT'S the sort of class Yankee fans epitomize!

 

leethebard
"sore-winning"????????? A little sore and horse from the celebration parties?????

The word is "hoarse". I do it, too, but I don't claim to be anything except Big and Ugly. I'm certainly no bard.

Big Ugly Mich

saps
Which one?  1907 or 1908?

How about 1906, when the Cubs posted the BEST RECORD IN BASEBALL HISTORY, only to get walloped by the White Sox in the Series? We [the Cubs] still won more games than any team in any professional sport!

Kind of like my fav the Cleveland Indians winning an American League record, IIRC, 111 games in 1954 and getting beat 4 straight in the World Series to the New York Giants. I'm old enough to remember that year intimately. I wasn't around in 1906.

BTW, both those winning seasons, 1906 and 1954, were done in a 154 game season not the current 162.

Big Ugly Mich

leethebard
"sore-winning"????????? A little sore and horse from the celebration parties?????

The word is "hoarse". I do it, too, but I don't claim to be anything except Big and Ugly. I'm certainly no bard.

Hey,big and ugly...thanks for correcting my slip...!!!!
 
 
Cubs in 2010!!!!????

No.  The Cubs will be great in 2088

I think you got that about right!

Re: Yankee fans and classy....

Yankee fan conviced of killing Red Sox fan

Great link, TTM.

I've refrained until the mess died down, but I am not a Yankees fan, sorry. The clean team with the big heart and the newly acquired starting ace all the way this time in 2010. We just lacked the bullpen except for Cliff Lee in 2009, and sadly we lack Cliff Lee now...enjoy it while you can, Yankees.
 
 

While we Can ????   27 world series titles....I guess it'll be another century of waiting....oops that's another team!!!!!!

saps
No.  The Cubs will be great in 2088

The Cubs could come in dead last and still be great. They already have in 2005.
 
Let's see now. The Indians started winning after Major League was made (in Milwaukee's old County Stadium, by the way) and the Red Sox won while Fever Pitch was being filmed. This oughta do it: http://webelievethemovie.com/ Thanks to Joe Mantegna for writing (and doing a bit role in the stage production of http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289092/), but when they made a movie out of it, they changed Cubs into Bruins. Close but no cigar (a nod to Red Auerbach). Cubs made the playoffs in 1984 after Steve Goodman died. Steve wrote the song "Go Cubs Go" which is played after each Cub win at Wrigley Field, and the sadly prophetic "Dying Cub Fan's Last Request" and really did die in 1984, when the Cubs made the playoffs for the first time in most of our lives. Of course, I was in the Navy stationed in San Diego then, so I might as well have died.  

leethebard


While we Can ????   27 world series titles....I guess it'll be another century of waiting....oops that's another team!!!!!!

Yes. While you can. And I am not going to get into any arguments with anyone in this thread.

harriet1954


I've refrained until the mess died down, but I am not a Yankees fan, sorry. The clean team with the big heart and the newly acquired starting ace all the way this time in 2010. We just lacked the bullpen except for Cliff Lee in 2009, and sadly we lack Cliff Lee now...enjoy it while you can, Yankees.
 
 

"Clean team"....... laughable.

I think the Yankees will be enjoying things for the foreseeable future, unless another team with deep pockets can consistently outspend them, or some type of salary cap system is put in place.  That is just the reality of the situation.

Boston has deep pockets and wisdom in using them....The Mets( a name that stands for nothing,by the way...no it doesn't stand for Metropolitans) have lots of cash too..but apparantly lack the wisdom!!

Right Leethebard.  But no one has near the deep pockets of the Yankees, which gives them the ability to not only outspend everyone, but to also eat their mistakes and reload.  Carl Pavano is just one example. 

Those deep pockets extend not just to payroll, but to the front office as well.  They are able to afford more resources than any other team- Better front office personnel from top to bottom, better and more scouting, better facilities, maintenance, etc.  There are the haves and the have-nots, and the Yankees simply have more than everyone else, which equates to a consistently better product on the field.  Others may try to keep up, and Boston does an admirable job, but simply no one else can run with the Yankees over the long haul.

Yep..the American way...victims of their success!!

GNeedles59

harriet1954


I've refrained until the mess died down, but I am not a Yankees fan, sorry. The clean team with the big heart and the newly acquired starting ace all the way this time in 2010. We just lacked the bullpen except for Cliff Lee in 2009, and sadly we lack Cliff Lee now...enjoy it while you can, Yankees.

"Clean team"....... laughable.

 
Keep laughing, Yankee fans...while you can! Oh, where IS that "laughing" emoticon?
 
Approximately 52 days until pitchers and catchers report and I can't wait to see Roy Halladay - you know, our new starting ace - do his stuff.
 
Yes, the Phillies are a clean team. Sorry you disagree, gneedles59.

Pitchers and catchers are in 38 days, not 52.

If by "clean," you mean free of performance-enhancing drugs, I sure hope you are not in for a letdown a few years down the road when more and more reports of those who did surface.  In the meantime, I hope you are not forgetting one of the more high-profile major league steroid suspensions last year was the Phillies primary set-up man in the bullpen, J. C. Romero.

Needles, I am not sure what date you are using, but the first day that teams can require injured players, pitchers and catchers to report to a major league training camp is February 18 - still 42 days away.  Yes, I am counting.

The Travelin Man

Needles, I am not sure what date you are using, but the first day that teams can require injured players, pitchers and catchers to report to a major league training camp is February 18 - still 42 days away.  Yes, I am counting.

I can't think about baseball until March. February will be dedicated to watching Curling at the Olympics.

leethebard


Boston has deep pockets and wisdom in using them....The Mets( a name that stands for nothing,by the way...no it doesn't stand for Metropolitans) have lots of cash too..but apparantly lack the wisdom!!

Crazy talk!
 
 

TTM - JC Romero wasn't on steroids. He was taking one of those supplements from GNC.