| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/9/2009 7:34:36 AM | | Well I know the season is only two days old but there is a feeling of uneasy in the Yankee Camp, C.C. Sabathia and Ching Ming Wang did very little to help and 180 million dollar man Mark Texria has one hit, anyways my point is, is this something to worry about? or just some rust coming off? | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/9/2009 8:17:45 AM | | What, we are 3 days into the season? The big problem with a lot of fans as well as fantasy owners is they make kneejerk reactions based off of 1 game. Give it time. I'm sure they will come around. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/9/2009 8:43:11 AM | Already NY media is tearing them apart....  As much as I hate the Yankees, they have a reputation to always rally near the end of the season. It almost has become a routine every season, but for the moment I am enjoying this with all the money they have spent.
I do hope they fall on their face with all the crazy money deals they have made. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/9/2009 11:41:06 AM | Two games into the season and we have a post "problems with the Yankees"?
Now all the Yankee haters will be all over this one. And I am not a Yankee fan.  | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/9/2009 1:13:28 PM | | A Yankee pitcher throws strikes, they destroy a team. That'll be something you'll see a bit of this year. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/9/2009 7:21:59 PM | | I am sure the chemestry will work for the Yankees and they will snag a playoff spot. The season is very long. So staying healthy is key. Anyways, I am not paying any attention until hockey & basquetball are over. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/9/2009 8:47:15 PM | | Nothing wrong with the Yankees, they're doing just fine, right where we want them. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/10/2009 3:30:32 AM | | Lets be honest, none of the three serious teams in the AL East are perfect, but the Yankees have the least holes. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/10/2009 9:19:33 AM | | The money problem in baseball is worse with what Tampa/Florida/Minnesota/Toronto/Pittsburgh are doing than what the Mets/Yankees/Red Sox/Tigers are doing. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/10/2009 9:45:02 AM | Uh, yea....its so bad in Tampa ....er ..Tampa Bay that we can't even make it to the World Series!
Oh wait................... | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/10/2009 10:23:37 AM | Cool, that doesn't mean they haven't spent the last eight or so years with a payroll about equal to what they receive in luxury tax money.
They're crying poverty with a 40mil payroll the year after making the world series. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/10/2009 10:55:15 AM | | Sabathia is actually having "buyers remorse;" realizing now that he should have taken the Brewers $100M offer and stayed in Milwaukee, instead of selling his soul to the Evil Empire... | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/10/2009 11:16:14 AM |
Cool, that doesn't mean they haven't spent the last eight or so years with a payroll about equal to what they receive in luxury tax money.
They're crying poverty with a 40mil payroll the year after making the world series.
Their payroll for a majority of their existence has been quite a bit more than the revenue money they have received, the difference is they don't pocket it like some of the other teams.
Where have the Rays cried poverty? The only “news” I have seen stating such has been in personal blogs which regardless of what those writers would have you believe is not news coverage. The Rays are actually in the black. They had one horrific financially strapped year and that was the two years after the Hit Show debacle where they were paying more in salaries to hurt and ex-players than those on the field. That was the old ownership, and once the team got out from under those salaries and sold to Sternberg, things improved almost immediately. However, I even disagreed with many that felt the old ownership was just “cheap”, Namoili might have been a genius businessman, but not in the world of baseball and he wouldn’t trust the people under him enough to run the team. He had the heart, the drive and the want to make baseball a success in the TB area but his ego got in the way. It is a completely different atmosphere with the new ownership, Stu has given pretty much full reign to Friedman and Silverman, so far, so good.
There has been no need to up the team salary as the bulk of the team is from the farm system and were already locked up to long term deals that were pretty affordable compared to the rest of the league. The Rays have been able to obtain a lot of sponsorship, one of the most lucrative TV deals to help make up for the lack of season ticket revenue in the past. This year of course the season ticket based jumped significantly and there are no seats at the Trop that cost a grand or more for each game unlike a another team…..cough…ahem…cough.
I guess it’s just a case of one’s perception of cheap is another one’s perception of getting more bang for the buck.
My apologies, this is suppose to be a Yankees thread. I personally do not go on rants about the Yanks “buying “ teams, in fact I am usually defending their organization from those accusations. They run their team within the confines of the rules of baseball and so do the Rays. Just because they have different styles doesn’t mean there is a problem with how either one is run. In fact my main point was to dispute the idea that there is a money “problem” on either side. The only “problem” is how the teams are run, not the money, large or small. If the last decade hasn’t proved that then you either don’t truly watch the game or are just finding something to gripe about where it doesn’t even exist.
On that note……Go Royals! | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/10/2009 2:00:51 PM | | Once the current crop of Rays hit arbitration/free agency they'll all be gone. They're going to let Crawford walk after this year without a legit replacement. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/14/2009 12:08:34 AM | please stop hating ... even though the yankees always get the best free agents ..history shows you cant buy a championship "nuff said" | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/14/2009 10:22:12 AM | | Again, no problems, Yankees were awesome last night. They even have a sense of humor, moving Nick Swisher over from first base to pitch an inning. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/14/2009 6:08:42 PM | | The main problem with the Yankees is that they think the key is to buy talent and it does not work that way. They need to learn to develop their players through the farm system. Look at the teams who are winning in baseball now like the Rays they develop players out of their farm system and even the Red Sox and alot of the teams in the NL. To me the Yankees are going to miss the playoffs again this year. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/14/2009 9:34:42 PM | | Yankees got a little payback tonight. Burnett pitched extremely well, even flirted with a no hitter. Mo was warming up until Jeter got the 3 run homer. 3 ks in a row in the ninth for Bruney. Damon was out of the line up he has a bad cold, expects to play on Wed. Nady was removed from the game in the 7th, he appeared to have trouble throwing the ball to the infield after fielding a SF fly off of Burrell. When I got home I read that he might have tweaked his elbow on the single from Pena on the previous at bat. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/22/2009 1:16:40 PM | | I just think all the Yankees can't stop thinking of their BIG salaries and that's why they haven't had a good team in a few years. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/22/2009 2:03:46 PM | | it's way to early to be looking at the standings and judging any team's record. If they're playing bad at the end of May, then I'd be concerned if I were a Yankee fan. Right now the Blue Jays are the best, but as I said the end of May is when you can start looking at the standings, not now. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/25/2009 9:10:58 PM | Yanks are also pretty beat up right now. Nady and Arod are obviously not in the lineup, Matsui's knees are not in the best shape, but Tex seems to be almost back at full strength. Wang.. Got to fix that sinker, but I'm confident he'll snap out of this ruck. I think the main issue with the Yanks is their mid relievers. They are absolutely killing the yanks.
Yanks should bring Hughes back up, and maybe give Joba a few more starts, see how he fairs and possibly move him back to his original mid relief position.
Once Nady and Arod are back, Yanks will be cruising. | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/26/2009 10:02:28 AM | | WTF Yankess! You are adding fuel to the fire to the Yankee haters, losing two to the bloody socks. WAKE TF up! | |
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| Problem With The Yankees?
Posted: 4/26/2009 10:37:18 AM | Yanks are also pretty beat up right now. Nady and Arod are obviously not in the lineup, Matsui's knees are not in the best shape, but Tex seems to be almost back at full strength. Wang.. Got to fix that sinker, but I'm confident he'll snap out of this ruck. I think the main issue with the Yanks is their mid relievers. They are absolutely killing the yanks.
Are you kidding with all the money they have spent, that they cannot do it without ARod and Nady....That's a poor excuse if you ask me. This team should have dominated early and still show nothing!!!! I said it before and I'll say it again, I hope the Yankees fall on their faces. Just to show money can't buy championships....
YANKEES SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!! | |
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