Fallen Apple Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 I've been starting to root for the Yankees over the past few years just because I'm annoyed by all these mindless hating just because they're the best franchise in sports...the hatred is pretty much jealousy :blink: So a baseball team who wins more than anyone else is as bad as a group that commited genocide on various groups and was responsible for the deaths of millions? the yankees have commited genocide on baseball and are responsible for the deaths of millions of real baseball fans souls you're a moron...explain how...because they win a lot? Without the Yankees, there wouldn't be Major League Baseball :blink: baseball has been fine thats like saying there would be no football if it wasnt for the cowboys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passion Posted August 30, 2006 Share Posted August 30, 2006 Gotta love how everyone wants to liberalize everything now. If something is too good, powerful or better then everyone else we have to figure out ways or put in stipulations or penalties to bring them down to the mediocre so that everyone can have their turn at competing. Everything has to be nice, fair, and even. Instead of rooting or respecting the best we villanize it. Sad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlins Rule_Yankees suck Posted August 31, 2006 Author Share Posted August 31, 2006 I've been starting to root for the Yankees over the past few years just because I'm annoyed by all these mindless hating just because they're the best franchise in sports...the hatred is pretty much jealousy :blink: So a baseball team who wins more than anyone else is as bad as a group that commited genocide on various groups and was responsible for the deaths of millions? the yankees have commited genocide on baseball and are responsible for the deaths of millions of real baseball fans souls you're a moron...explain how...because they win a lot? Without the Yankees, there wouldn't be Major League Baseball and therein lies the problem. small market clubs can in NO WAY spend the money the Yanks and Sox can. that's just a simple fact. It's like having a salary cap for only half the teams. small market clubs are FORCED to build through the farm system and if their prospects don't all develop into ***** and all at the right time, they don't have a real chance. Ask any baseball expert. And while some teams are just better than others, sports teams having a clear-cut advantage over other sports teams spoils some fans and ****** off others. And a lot of historically winning teams have a gigantic crowd of bandwagoner fans and cocky fans who think they are just more intelligent than fans of teams who lose more often. Steinbrenner's WS Championships are watered-down. Winning with a payroll of around $200 million waters it down if the Yankees do happen to win the World Series.It becomes unimpressive.Yankees make the sport less likeable. More undecisive soon-to-be sports fans make the right decision and turn to either college sports or the NFL. also that Luxury Tax Steinbrenner pays is just chump change and has very little impact. By the way that Luxury Tax becomes a write off . You can 'compete' with lower payrolls but you will not compete year in and year out and when the Yanks, Sox, etc are nearing 200million all you can do is hope to win a playoff series. Last ten years the only "small" market teams" to win a World Series-Florida and Arizona. NY Yanks-4times, 4 in 5 years. They have choked in recent years but they do have more talent than any other team. Even with key injuries they just go out and trade for/buy new players. How would the Twins or A's be doing if two or 3 bigtime players on their team were gone for the year? Baseballs system is messed up, how anyone can even with a straightface watch the sport get passed by the likes of Nascar and act as though its in great shape is just being silly. Baseball is a 2nd rate American sport, thats a tragedy. Most fans just dont care about it. Why should they? Their team has no shot. Bringing up two teams like the As and Twins who make solid runs only to be passed by teams with stacked payrolls isnt making a point. Baseball sucks right now for like 80% of the league, knowing they have no legit shot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen Apple Posted August 31, 2006 Share Posted August 31, 2006 I've been starting to root for the Yankees over the past few years just because I'm annoyed by all these mindless hating just because they're the best franchise in sports...the hatred is pretty much jealousy :blink: So a baseball team who wins more than anyone else is as bad as a group that commited genocide on various groups and was responsible for the deaths of millions? the yankees have commited genocide on baseball and are responsible for the deaths of millions of real baseball fans souls you're a moron...explain how...because they win a lot? Without the Yankees, there wouldn't be Major League Baseball and therein lies the problem. small market clubs can in NO WAY spend the money the Yanks and Sox can. that's just a simple fact. It's like having a salary cap for only half the teams. small market clubs are FORCED to build through the farm system and if their prospects don't all develop into ***** and all at the right time, they don't have a real chance. Ask any baseball expert. And while some teams are just better than others, sports teams having a clear-cut advantage over other sports teams spoils some fans and ****** off others. And a lot of historically winning teams have a gigantic crowd of bandwagoner fans and cocky fans who think they are just more intelligent than fans of teams who lose more often. Steinbrenner's WS Championships are watered-down. Winning with a payroll of around $200 million waters it down if the Yankees do happen to win the World Series.It becomes unimpressive.Yankees make the sport less likeable. More undecisive soon-to-be sports fans make the right decision and turn to either college sports or the NFL. also that Luxury Tax Steinbrenner pays is just chump change and has very little impact. By the way that Luxury Tax becomes a write off . You can 'compete' with lower payrolls but you will not compete year in and year out and when the Yanks, Sox, etc are nearing 200million all you can do is hope to win a playoff series. Last ten years the only "small" market teams" to win a World Series-Florida and Arizona. NY Yanks-4times, 4 in 5 years. They have choked in recent years but they do have more talent than any other team. Even with key injuries they just go out and trade for/buy new players. How would the Twins or A's be doing if two or 3 bigtime players on their team were gone for the year? Baseballs system is messed up, how anyone can even with a straightface watch the sport get passed by the likes of Nascar and act as though its in great shape is just being silly. Baseball is a 2nd rate American sport, thats a tragedy. Most fans just dont care about it. Why should they? Their team has no shot. Bringing up two teams like the As and Twins who make solid runs only to be passed by teams with stacked payrolls isnt making a point. Baseball sucks right now for like 80% of the league, knowing they have no legit shot. :notworthy BINGO I agree with you on everything specially the fan part I live two blocks from the stadium and 99% of Yankee fan are just how you describe them to be Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MVPosey Posted September 7, 2006 Share Posted September 7, 2006 I've been starting to root for the Yankees over the past few years just because I'm annoyed by all these mindless hating just because they're the best franchise in sports...the hatred is pretty much jealousy :blink: So a baseball team who wins more than anyone else is as bad as a group that commited genocide on various groups and was responsible for the deaths of millions? the yankees have commited genocide on baseball and are responsible for the deaths of millions of real baseball fans souls you're a moron...explain how...because they win a lot? Without the Yankees, there wouldn't be Major League Baseball and therein lies the problem. small market clubs can in NO WAY spend the money the Yanks and Sox can. that's just a simple fact. It's like having a salary cap for only half the teams. small market clubs are FORCED to build through the farm system and if their prospects don't all develop into ***** and all at the right time, they don't have a real chance. Ask any baseball expert. The Marlins are a small market club? Of the 10 teams with $90 million payrolls, half of them are in a smaller market than Miami, or it's like a smaller market because they have to split it with another team... It's not that they can't spend money, it's that they choose not to spend money, or they haven't managed their team the right way so they can spend money And while some teams are just better than others, sports teams having a clear-cut advantage over other sports teams spoils some fans and ****** off others. And a lot of historically winning teams have a gigantic crowd of bandwagoner fans and cocky fans who think they are just more intelligent than fans of teams who lose more often. Steinbrenner's WS Championships are watered-down. Winning with a payroll of around $200 million waters it down if the Yankees do happen to win the World Series.It becomes unimpressive.Yankees make the sport less likeable. More undecisive soon-to-be sports fans make the right decision and turn to either college sports or the NFL. why? the larger payroll just shows that Steinbrenner has more dedication to winning that any other owner...and college sports? there's a lot more parity in MLB than there are in college sports...look at the top 25 teams in college football every year...with the exception of a few spots, it's pretty much the same teams in there year after year...and the NFL has become a joke with the way they're trying to make it so eventually every team will go 8-8 You can 'compete' with lower payrolls but you will not compete year in and year out and when the Yanks, Sox, etc are nearing 200million all you can do is hope to win a playoff series. You know why the Yankees and Sox can spend that kind of money? Because they winning...having a large payroll doesn't allow you to win...winning allows you to have a large payroll Miami and Phoenix are hardly small markets...basically, all you're doing is blaming Steinbrenner for the Twins and A's ownerships being cheap Baseballs system is messed up, how anyone can even with a straightface watch the sport get passed by the likes of Nascar and act as though its in great shape is just being silly. Baseball is a 2nd rate American sport, thats a tragedy. Most fans just dont care about it. Why should they? Their team has no shot. Bringing up two teams like the As and Twins who make solid runs only to be passed by teams with stacked payrolls isnt making a point. Baseball sucks right now for like 80% of the league, knowing they have no legit shot. No legit shot? MLB has more parity than any other sport: # of champions in last six years: MLB: 6 (20%) NBA: 4 (13.3%) NFL: 4 (12.5%) # of teams to reach the championship in the last six years: MLB: 10 (33.3%) NFL: 10 (31.3%) NBA: 7 (23.3%) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babaru Posted September 11, 2006 Share Posted September 11, 2006 Sounds like a 5 year old wrote that article. It's probably funny to 5 year olds too. :thumbdown :thumbdown :thumbdown :thumbdown :thumbdown :thumbdown lighten up. it's a joke. it's hypothetical if you haven't noticed. Yes, we know it's a joke... but what we are trying to get at is that it's a really bad one. You know why the Yankees and Sox can spend that kind of money? Because they winning...having a large payroll doesn't allow you to win...winning allows you to have a large payroll Wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3d56 Posted September 22, 2006 Share Posted September 22, 2006 yankees stay killing baseball Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3d56 Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 I've been starting to root for the Yankees over the past few years just because I'm annoyed by all these mindless hating just because they're the best franchise in sports...the hatred is pretty much jealousy do u actully think what the yankees have done to baseball is right Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarHeel324 Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 I've been starting to root for the Yankees over the past few years just because I'm annoyed by all these mindless hating just because they're the best franchise in sports...the hatred is pretty much jealousy do u actully think what the yankees have done to baseball is right yeah...without them baseball isnt as interesting...besides, theyre not breaking any of the rules. doing whatever you can (within the rules) to win isnt wrong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen Apple Posted September 29, 2006 Share Posted September 29, 2006 I've been starting to root for the Yankees over the past few years just because I'm annoyed by all these mindless hating just because they're the best franchise in sports...the hatred is pretty much jealousy do u actully think what the yankees have done to baseball is right yeah...without them baseball isnt as interesting...besides, theyre not breaking any of the rules. doing whatever you can (within the rules) to win isnt wrong Take this from someone who lives 3 blocks away in my opinion Yankee fans are the most annoying always bragging about there 26 championships when most of them happened in the black and white era some people cant name a player from the Yankee thats not Jeter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TarHeel324 Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 I've been starting to root for the Yankees over the past few years just because I'm annoyed by all these mindless hating just because they're the best franchise in sports...the hatred is pretty much jealousy do u actully think what the yankees have done to baseball is right yeah...without them baseball isnt as interesting...besides, theyre not breaking any of the rules. doing whatever you can (within the rules) to win isnt wrong Take this from someone who lives 3 blocks away in my opinion Yankee fans are the most annoying always bragging about there 26 championships when most of them happened in the black and white era some people cant name a player from the Yankee thats not Jeter If my team won 26 rings, I'd brag about it too I never knew it was wrong to be a really successful franchise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bryan Posted September 30, 2006 Share Posted September 30, 2006 Jealousy drives society. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rorod Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 i like the yanks because it makes it that much sweeter when another team can beat them...without the yanks and without the cubs still being cursed, baseball just isnt the same Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Markickass21 Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Where do the Yankees get all the money to spend on players? Is it a combination of ticket sales and merchandise and winning titles or what? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fallen Apple Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 I've been starting to root for the Yankees over the past few years just because I'm annoyed by all these mindless hating just because they're the best franchise in sports...the hatred is pretty much jealousy do u actully think what the yankees have done to baseball is right yeah...without them baseball isnt as interesting...besides, theyre not breaking any of the rules. doing whatever you can (within the rules) to win isnt wrong Take this from someone who lives 3 blocks away in my opinion Yankee fans are the most annoying always bragging about there 26 championships when most of them happened in the black and white era some people cant name a player from the Yankee thats not Jeter If my team won 26 rings, I'd brag about it too I never knew it was wrong to be a really successful franchise You my friend missed the point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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