October 18, 200422 yr Yea we have to penalize teams because they spend money to win and bc their fans go to games and people buy the merchandise. Steinnbrenner is still the best owner in sports, and winning brings people to the stadium, sure the yankees are very marketable, but the marlins for example could be too, if the stadium wasnt in the middle of a wasteland, and where all aprking and concessions go to a former owner 595356[/snapback] Right...because everyone has that Yankee tradition to market huh? The Marlins have no chance to market anywhere close to a product. Payroll as a percent of total revenue would indicate that George is at the bottom if not near the bottom. He puts up money because he can his team is just that insanely profitable, no team can come close and no team will.
October 18, 200422 yr Author Yea we have to penalize teams because they spend money to win and bc their fans go to games and people buy the merchandise. Steinnbrenner is still the best owner in sports, and winning brings people to the stadium, sure the yankees are very marketable, but the marlins for example could be too, if the stadium wasnt in the middle of a wasteland, and where all aprking and concessions go to a former owner 595356[/snapback] Look at it as penalizing if you want but Steinbrenner has nothing to do with the likes of the Babe and DiMaggio that made the Yankees who they are today. The Yankees have generations of fans and people will follow them because their parents did, like their grandparents, etc. How can you even make a comparison with that legacy against ours? MLB needs to take small steps to give the league more parity. Look at how evenly matched the NFL is each year. Baseball will never end up like the NFL, but the gap between have and have nots doesn't have to be that huge.
October 18, 200422 yr i live in Homestead,i drive for about an hour,but i get my a$$ to the ballpark cause i wanna see this team get somewhere... 595362[/snapback] I have this thing that hinders me its called work. Im only able to go to weekend games, and by weekend i mean saturday and sunday only. If the stadium were closer i could go much more often, which is why yankees stadium fills up its in the middle of the city 595365[/snapback] well kinda.. it's in the Bronx and a s***ty neighborhood at that it still takes a while to leave the city and get to the games on time(Shea is closer, I think)
October 18, 200422 yr Yankee's next year: :plain SS: Jeter CF: Beltran 3B: A-Rod RF: Sheffeild 1B: Giambi LF: Matsui C: Posada DH: Bernie 2B: Cairo Rotation: Pedro Martinez Mike Mussina Javier Vazquez Kevin Brown Jon Lieber :banghead
October 19, 200422 yr Funny how this started when Boston's collection of talent, that were expected to beat the rich Yankees, failed. And how the thread died when that collection of talent won.
October 19, 200422 yr I've been telling my co-workers all year, just watch next year when Nomar is playing 2B for the Yanks. Now they need to work on getting a 7 man rotation-Brown, Mussina, Vasquez, Wells, Hernandez, Leiber and Pavano. They'll also probably sign Percival for the Pen.
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