Comments on: Yanks top Angels to seal 40th World Series berth

By: Memories of Pettitte’s Game 6s past | River Avenue Blues

Memories of Pettitte’s Game 6s past | River Avenue Blues — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:31:08 +0000

[...] 25, 2009: ALCS Game 6 This one — the ALCS clincher — is still fresh in our minds, and every Yankee fan would take this outing and outcome from Pettitte. Facing a feisty [...]

By: Kiko Jones

Kiko Jones — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:51:59 +0000

What is their argument? That the Steinbrenners have money and spend it but their owner chooses not to, despite having loot as well? Absurd.

By: Frank Fernandez

Frank Fernandez — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:56:17 +0000

Sure was. No talk about it in the media either. Just let Girardi try to pull a blunder like that; he’d be roasted.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:26:42 +0000

this was no directed at any particular comment on the board… i’ve just heard too much money talk on the radio and ‘baseball fans’ (aka red sox/angels fans) who have no right to talk

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:25:09 +0000

People need to stop with the ‘the only reason the Yankees won is because their payroll is so high’ bullshit.

Clearly a high payroll didnt do anything the past 9 years, so I dont know what itd have to do with anything.

Yanks overpay everrrrrybody on their roster because they can. No one would be making as much money on another team, not even A-Rod. The Yankees are the cause of the high salaries, not the players. The Yankees simply are the company that pays its employees much more than they probably would make otherwise. Like In-N-Out Burger, a normal fast food chain on the west coast that pays $10/hr starting wage. McDonalds doesn’t pay $10/hr starting wage. That’s because In-N-Out (the Yankees in this analogy) cares about performance more than McDonalds (McDonalds represents all the other MLB teams). McDonalds just cares about profit, not how well its team performs, though the Angels and Red Sox may not fit into that category (they also pay their players handsomly).

And it’s not like the Yankees have 9 free-agent signed starting players anyway. They didn’t go to the free agent market and buy the team! Tex, Damon, and Matsui (if you can count him as a true free agent..) are the only non-trade or farm system guys in the starting 9 (plus CC and AJ). That is not unreasonable! They didn’t buy this pennant! They earned it!

By: Mike Axisa

Mike Axisa — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:41:02 +0000

And if someone did, we’d ban them instantly.

By: Tank Foster

Tank Foster — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:48:37 +0000

I consider the Angels series the ‘real’ World Series. Yes, the Phillies are good, and the Yankees could lose to them, but it’s still the AL v. AAAA.

Yankees in 5. The bats are going to heat up.

By: Bo

Bo — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:44:29 +0000

I don’t think we’ll be hearing about how much of a genius Scioscia is after this.

Starting Saunders in this game over Weaver was terrible.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:29:53 +0000

America… Fuck yeah.

By: tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside

tommiesmithjohncarlos a/k/a Ridiculous Upside — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:27:57 +0000

No need for the tired YS2 vs. YS3 debate, it’s irrelevant.

Neither one of them can hold a candle to YS1.

Sincerely,
Old Ranger