YANKS WIN 27th World Series

Yankees can buy World Series anytime.


(Wife's a Yankees fan, and she'll probably go to the parade whenever that happens since she's heading to NYC tomorrow)


Hawkeye-X

Here's the forecast:

Tomorrow: Partly cloudy skies during the morning hours will give way to occasional showers in the afternoon. High 52F. Winds SE at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 40%.

Wish I could go to see the World Champs but have to work. Good job Yankees - this NYer is thrilled.

27!

#27!!

...has the sun risen where you live? I see darkness spreading over the land, and weird creatures wailing in the sky.

My Mom was a rabid Yankees fan. While she was in hospice in April and May she watched the games till she passed. I wish she had been here to celebrate with me.

Maybe she'll be sitting on Jeter's shoulder during the parade tomorrow. I hope so.

i GUESS, IN THE END, THESE FOLKS ARE no DIFFERENT THAN THE fREEPERS WHO HATE THEM.....

And Rox will take it all in 4.

And Broncos win the Super Bowl.

And Avalanche win the Stanley Cup

And Nuggets win the NBA Championship.

All within one year!

Hawkeye-X

teams in the series. And besides, the Giants are going to win the super bowl, Rangers for the cup and Knicks for the championship. Sorry bout that. But today, I celebrate the Yankees.

While I've never seen them referred to as "Rox", all his other teams are Colorado teams

and read it as Sox (sorry bout that).

edit: and the Mammoth indoor lacrosse team!

This is what happens when you play an actual Major League team in the World Series, Philadelphia.

You should be so proud of yourself... This is why many people EXACTLY hate Yankee fans...its not enough to win, you have to stomp them into the freakin ground. Some sports fan you are.. be proud of yourself.

This proves what a jerk you are. Sounds Just like a freeper. Maybe you should think about what SPORTSMAN like conduct is...

Great freakin attitude....

And yes, I will resort to all sorts of infantile insults to prove how happy I am and just how jealous you are. Why will I do that? because, it's a kids game that grown ups are paid to play. So as a result I am a grown up, resorting to childlike tactics to support a game that represents the kid in all of us. LOL

on that note: neener neener neener! LOL

My Angels had their shot..they blew it. I can live with that. But what I object to is comments that are down right mean, and vicious. Seriously, half of the Fans here have never stepped into New York, and never been to Yankee stadium. I have been there..(the original one.) Seriously dude...

Show me a New York Yankee baseball player who went to the Phillies dug out and flipped them off? Show me a New York Yankee that got on the TV and said the Phillies suck ass...

Not one player did that...Yankee fans do it on the forum because there is no consequences to them.. on here. If it was in a bar, they might get their face smashed in if they intimated a Phillies fan.

Only on this forum can Yankee fans (and not all of them) can behave like jerks.

A real winner, is someone who is humble..

No humble people here right??

I got your humble right here! LOL

Cheers!

They are very very good. This years Yankees are excellent.

simply because things did not go their way. They made it just about all the way and lost by losing just one two games. In a case like this and with an attitude like yours, maybe the best team didn't win.

"class" that Yankees fans keep bragging about.

They won the National League Championship on the basis of the third highest payroll in the NL, going out and getting guys like Cliff Lee, holding on to guys like Howard with huge three year contracts (for which Howard just barely avoided the biggest choke in modern WS history, though he did manage to break the strike out record!), going out and getting Ibanez from the Mariners for a $30 million 3 year contract, and let's not forget Utley's 7 year $85 million contract extension. Phillies bought their team, too, but most people are too hypocritical to mention that.

My issue with the Yankees win only is that it amplifies the problem in baseball right now. Major market teams will always have the resources to buy championships where teams without a Yankees or Red Sox payroll will not. One of the reasons I was rooting for the Twins this post season is because they were an exception to the rule.

Baseball needes to address this problem, other professional sports have done this and baseball refuses to.

The Phillies bought their NL championship too, but had they won, you'd hear nary a word about that. Maybe baseball needs to address this issue, maybe not.

or any other major market team that due to the deregulation prompted by the players association have an undue advantage to bring home championships based solely on payroll and very little else. This has been a question that many baseball fans have been asking for years. The New York Yankees win last night just puts it centerstage. It should be addressed.

that teams win championships based on payroll and very little else.

So, there's that.

I wouldn't expect you to agree. As for me, my team is a major market team with one of the largest payroll's in baseball and I think it is still unfair.

We had $145 million payroll and sucked about as badly as ever.

I do enjoy watching the obnoxious Phillies fans eat shit, though, and I enjoy watching new York win.

is there any need to talk to you? PLEASE!

And I am a New Yorker, so I go with the home team.

But yes, watching the shit-talking Phillies fans eat shit has been awesome.

Whereas the Yankees have the highest payroll in all of baseball, by a HUGE margin.

Good luck holding on to all those players, BTW. I seriously doubt we'll see the Yankees in a World Series for another decade or so.

I specified the NL, so I don't know why you're shouting. That was part of the point. The NL. Watching the Phillies lose after all their fans' shit-talking nonsense (esp. after Game 1) was pleasure enough. It would have been even nicer to see them lose at home, but taking two from them in front of their shattered fans was pretty sweet.

And good job to Howard for breaking that World Series record!

Given the fact that one player on your team makes more than the Pittsburgh Pirates roster COMBINED, shouldn't you have been able to manage a sweep?

Seems like pretty crappy value for the money Steinbrenner's paying.

We won last year, and threatened to repeat this year, and all for a fraction of your payroll.

Congratulations on proving that money sometimes trumps heart.

Good value? Probably.

By your logic, shouldn't the NL team with the HIGHEST payroll have won?

The two highest were pathetic. By YOUR own logic on the Yankees, shouldn't the Mets or Cubs have won it? If the team with the highest payroll wins, it would have been Yankees v. Mets, no?

But that's just a flaw in your accusation against the Yankees. As is clear, winning and payroll are not necessarily connected. However, if we are to connect them, it becomes clear that with the third highest, Philly obviously went out and bought as much talent as they could, and they certainly outstripped every team but the injury-plagued pathetic Mets and the disappointing Cubs in paying out to players. is Philly innocent in the payrool game? Certainly not. They buy up (Ibanez, Cliff Lee) and retain (Utley at 7yr $85 million) talent just like the Yankees. So if the Yankees bought their title, so did the Phillies.

This is what happens when you play an actual Major League team in the World Series, Philadelphia.

oh yeah, you never were.

Philly fans are the paragon of gentile behavior?

You deserved this one. Great baseball.

But this is coming from a Red Sox fan. Congratulations.

Phillies is one of them. The Phillies spent over a million on their players. They are no farm system like the old Expos once were. They won the World Series last year and are a great team. And I love the Yanks being a fan since childhood but we bought our way there.

The Yankees...that's who

n/t

It got them one whole World Series Crown.

I'd expect a better return for my money considering how much they outspend everyone else but after watching the BoSox gleen two Championships I bet Yankees fans were getting pretty desperate.

The House That Ruth Built is filling landfills in Hoboken. This victory christened The House That 'Roids Built.

Talk to Big Poppy and Manny.

I just can't figure out which is which.

I have no love for any of the Junior Circuit miscreants due to the Designated Abomination.

edit typo

in 2003.

love Florida Marlins ...

Scum of the earth.

Steinbrenner Inc. is a criminal organization, but they got nothing on Goddamn Sucks.

But,the Phillies deserve a lot of credit for playing as well as they did with a lot less money.

And yet, mysteriously, nobody accuses them of having bought the National League championship.

The Yankees make no bones about the shitty way they do business. Their fans should not make excuses for that particular business model.

The logic is precisely the same. Phillies bought last year's series and this year's NL championship. They went out and got the players they needed, and they retained their talent with huge contracts. It's not a mystery to anyone but whiney Phillies fans who still think that their team is made up of scrappy underdogs or something. They bought that NL championship as sure as anything. Of course, that's the way the game works these days, and it's pretty clear that this argument only comes out when somebody's precious team loses, like yours did.

toodle-oo. Enjoy your championship. The New York Steinbrenners paid enough for it.

You paid for that too.

so sick of them being in the playoffs or the World Series that I just quit watching.

6 years. Some broad brush of poor excuses.

And they won't either. What's the point of backing a team that will NEVER be IN the WS? And having to listen to whiney Yankee fans that their team had to wait a whole 6 years to be IN the WS? Try waiting for 40, 50, 75 or more years to be IN the WS.

SCREW Major League Baseball.

It's why I've lost what was once a keen interest in bball. There's the Yankees, whose owner can and does buy any player he wants, and the rest of MLB that simply serves as his supermarket.

Ok just kidding, congrats to the Yankees and Yankees fans all around.

The yankees

and the year after that..

The yankees

and the year after that..

The yankees

How very, very exciting.....

demand a salary cap in baseball.

In the end, the teams that do make it year after year are the large-market spendthrifts.

In fact, maybe we should just fold all small/mid market teams anyway. Send all great players to the Large Market Entitlement Machine and just make all sports the Boston/LA/Chicago/NY/Philadelphia/Detroit League. And the mid/small market "cow towns" can play . . .. lesser sports like AAA baseball (I mean, who are we kidding? What is Basebusiness but LA/Boston/NY and their 27 bitch farm clubs?), volleyball and curling.

That's really what the ESPN/Yahoo people and front-running fans of all large market teams want anyway.

We South Jerseyans were hoping for another win by the Phils.

Welcome to DU!

Paris Hilton won the lottery! GO Paris!

Another reason that we should have free agency and other such measures to level the monetary playing field. It works in the NFL, it would work in the MLB.

27!!!

2009 World Series Champions!!

Then see if they'll be able to win.

With the third largest payroll in the NL, they certainly bought their way to that championship.

2009 Team Payrolls
No. Team Payroll Average
1. New York Yankees $201,449,289 $7,748,050
2. New York Mets $135,773,988 $4,849,071
3. Chicago Cubs $135,050,000 $5,402,000
4. Boston Red Sox $122,696,000 $4,089,867
5. Detroit Tigers $115,085,145 $4,110,184
6. Los Angeles Angels $113,709,000 $4,061,036
7. Philadelphia Phillies $113,004,048 $4,185,335
8. Houston Astros $102,996,415 $3,814,682
9. Los Angeles Dodgers $100,458,101 $4,018,324
10. Seattle Mariners $98,904,167 $3,532,292
11. Atlanta Braves $96,726,167 $3,335,385
12. Chicago White Sox $96,068,500 $3,694,942
13. St. Louis Cardinals $88,528,411 $3,278,830
14. San Francisco Giants $82,161,450 $3,043,017
15. Cleveland Indians $81,625,567 $3,023,169
16. Toronto Blue Jays $80,993,657 $2,892,631
17. Milwaukee Brewers $79,857,502 $3,194,300
18. Colorado Rockies $75,201,000 $2,785,222
19. Arizona Diamondbacks $73,571,667 $2,724,877
20. Cincinnati Reds $70,968,500 $2,957,021
21. Kansas City Royals $70,908,333 $2,727,244
22. Texas Rangers $68,646,023 $2,367,104
23. Baltimore Orioles $67,101,667 $2,580,833
24. Minnesota Twins $65,299,267 $2,251,699
25. Tampa Bay Rays $63,313,035 $2,183,208
26. Oakland Athletics $62,310,000 $2,225,357
27. Nationals $59,328,000 $2,045,793
28. Pirates $48,743,000 $1,874,731
29. San Diego Padres $42,796,700 $1,528,454
30. Florida Marlins $36,814,000 $1,314,786


http://www.cbssports.com/mlb/salaries

Just as a note, my original post you're responding to says third in the NL very clearly. The point is simple: the Phillies spent plenty of money getting their team together, and are hardly the innocent purists people are presenting here.

Utley is one hell of a player. I hope he stays on the Phillies, he is perfect there.
The only thing I did not like is that A-Rod finally got a ring. As a Yankees fan, I still don't like him.
And I guess I love the evil empire, I can't help it as my Dad raised me on them since I was a little girl and we are from CT.

you're OK with that? Wasn't he stealing a job from an American baseball player?

Sid

...there's a ESPN-love fest of A-hole going on right now.

I guess because the players are offered money to play the best they can they are evil? Maybe they should wear potato sacks and play for $1 a year. Would any of you work for $1 a year if you were one of the few talented workers in your field? I thought not, and if you say you will, well, I have a ton of salt I'll take with that.


Jealousy and hatred for a sports entity. Now I've seen it all here.

2009 payrolls

New York Yankees $ 201,449,189
New York Mets $ 149,373,987
Chicago Cubs $ 134,809,000
Boston Red Sox $ 121,745,999
Detroit Tigers $ 115,085,145
Los Angeles Angels $ 113,709,000
Philadelphia Phillies $ 113,004,046
Houston Astros $ 102,996,414
Los Angeles Dodgers $ 100,414,592
Seattle Mariners $ 98,904,166

The Yankees also pay a competitive balance tax to all of the other teams in the league, revenue sharing, for the privilege of making so much money.


I guess the other nine teams are all the good guys wearing white hats and only the Yankees are evil? So so sad

When the Yanks steal good player from your team,it's not a fun feeling. If you are really good,you are gonna wind up on the Yankees roster. If the Nationals had a payroll of $200 million,they'd start winning championships,too. This doesn't happen in other sports because of salary caps.

and whomever pays the most for the longest period of time wins, period. After George is gone, they probably will initiate salary caps. But for now, the system is the system.

It may not be called stealing,but it sure feels like it. Kinda like how the rich are running this world right now.

These people ARE workers, after all. They are just highly specialized workers with an extremely rare skill set.

want to defend their salaries and bonuses?

Maybe you need a primer on workers and management?

In any case, professional sports is as close to a labor meritocracy as you'll ever get, which the CEO racket (besides not falling into the traditional category of labor) clearly is not. You can't, on the one hand, claim that the Yankees buy up the best players, and, on the other, claim that the salaries aren't indexed to excellence. You just think that there should be a salary cap to even the playing field for owners trying to buy that labor, which is a fair enough argument, I guess, but it's not the same as saying that the market doesn't currently generate the best pay rates for that labor. You either have a 1.26 ERA or you don't. There's no faking that. If only labor was in a similar position everywhere! Then you wouldn't have wacked out CEO salaries, because labor salaries would be actually competitive. The whole progress of capital has been to deskill labor so that it cannot demand pay indexed to its own excellence. It is ironic that in the one place you see it, many many people scream that it is unfair. It's "unfair" to the capitalists because they actually have to pay close to what production is actually worth.

they get paid a salary (an obscenely high and often undeserved salary)

someone who is a manager doesn't go to work in the morning?

then again someone who compares overpaid game players to actual laborers rather than glorified entertainers may not understand what labor is.

Sorry for using a term of art. See edits above, in any case. Every baseball player deserves every cent he makes. And more, since there is still profit left on the table.

I don't think YOU understand what labor is.

there's still profit left on the table after the CEOs get paid, it's just a lot smaller.

Bone up on your labor history.

is that CEOs have actual market power because their talents (and experience) are unique, same as baseball players. If ARod gets sick, the Yankees aren't going to fire him and hire one of the 100 other ARods banging on the Yankees' door, because there aren't 100 other arods. Same thing with running a company. It takes a lot of experience that only a few select people have (and is easy to screw up as we all know).

With what you call labor, the workers are often replaceable with 100 other people who can do the same job at the same level, which results in very low market power for these laborers to demand things like vacation, sick time, the 40 hour work week. That's why unions are so important.

It is not that CEOs don't work for a salary and aren't labor in a true sense, it's that they don't have the absence of market power that we think of when we think of "labor."

for the best players, I agree with that. The problems is a few teams can hoard all the best players.

The salary cap is a pressing question, but the answer is by no means obvious. If it was merely a question of market size, there'd be no reason why the Miami metro area can't produce a market equal to Boston, or to a split New York market for that matter. Yet all we see are empty seats, even immediately after a WS victory. Some of this has to do with tradition, to be sure, but the Marlins carry a payroll of $36 million? That's ownership taking money off the table, and a failed product in terms of attractiveness for consumers (i.e., fans). Boston and Philly both produce massive payrollswith comparable metro area populations. Why?

in the NE, not so much in Miami. So you can have a small market in a big city. In baseball it is so hard to make the playoffs that I think owners just don't see any return in a business sense as well as a baseball sense, from spending that extra $20 mil in salary. So they just don't. They spend the optimal amount of money for their situation.

That is partially why I also want a salary floor.

You ask me. The imbalance is produced in part because particular markets just aren't ready for the commodity, or simply can't support its production at a high enough level of quality.

DC can't manage a professional baseball team?

should demand more, and maybe actually show up for games. I see that Marlins stadium empty all year long. At least the Yankees cycle the fan's money into players, rather than hoarding it like the ownership of those teams. Even the revenue sharing money they keep for themselves, which is disgraceful.

why are all these liberals jealous of people for being SUCCESSFUL and wanting to keep their own money?

Oh wait you weren't talking about tax policy?

Their payroll is tens of millions more than the next team, and the obvious fawning by the sports media was completely nauseating.

Shows your teams' popularity, and that's at DU. I hope Obama doesn't have them at the White House. he can't afford the political hit.

...usually shows ESPN, but today I couldn't stomach it...everyone agreed...the Stinkees are hated.

I got shit to do, later.

of the Republican Party.

goodbye, the ignore function is great for people like yourself who take absolutely nothing WAY too seriously.

i'm not the one posting gloating threads about "absolutely nothing"

A more accurate headline!

That they are also hypocrites or idiots only makes it gravy.

it's a fucking SPORTS team, yet I'm treated like a pariha. God thank goodness for ignore, some of these folks have serious issues...

Rich assholes who buy championships.

I want a salary cap in baseball now.