I'm Getting Sick of Yankee Fans
Seriously. The further removed from the late 90's we get, the more these "fans" get nostalgic about those championship years, and the more any Yankee who won a ring have their abilities and accomplishments magnified in people's minds to the point where some people may think Charlie Hayes and Chad Curtis are borderline Hall of Famers. I hate to say that in many ways I'm getting sick of fans of my own team (not all of them of course, because that would then also include myself and many people I respect) but it's getting to the point of ridiculousness. Case in point: Joel Sherman wrote a blog post about how you can't "buy a championship," and that the difference between the 90's teams and today is the amount of pressure that they're under. I am not going to rip apart Sherman's article here, because that's not the point of this particular post, but here's a snippet: The closest (Steinbrenner) came (to buying a championship), and maybe any team will come for a long time, was his 1996-2001 clubs. Interestingly, while those teams always had high payrolls, they did not lap the field on every other team. And I think that was one of the reasons those Yankee clubs won. They had pressure. But not the kind of pressure that intensified around the team because of a) the need to feed winning by winning some more, however, also b) the relentless, financial pursuit of a championship once the parades stopped.Of course I disagree with Sherman here (I don't know how you can say the 1998 Yankees didn't "lap the field") but again, not the point. Check out the comments from that page, and see what these so-called fans think the problem is with the Yankees, and how to "fix" them (also ignore the terrible spelling and grammar). This guy compares the Yankees to Costco, believing that signing a free agent is akin to passing up someone more deserving for a promotion, and thinks A-Rod is a "mercenary" even though he was traded and not signed as a free agent but makes no mention of "mercenaries" Sheffield, Giambi, Matsui....:
This genius thinks it would be better to have an inferior player at third base:
What was A-Rod's batting average (the most important stat) in day games on the road with less than three balls? I bet this guy knows:
This is aone of my favorite theories: you need crappy players who then magically turn into unbelievable players for a short stretch of time, and that is how you win championships: The Yankees will never win with Rodriguez because he is "a phony" so the plan here (which is hands down my favorite) to release him, and pay his salary and let another team pick him up off of waivers and pay him the major league minimum, because that will fix the Yankees:
All Alex cares about is his own stats, while Jeter cares nothing about stats because Jeter said he didn't care about the MVP but wanted to win the championship, even though that's exactly what Alex said last year but Alex is a big phony:
A-Rod MUST be traded!!!!!111one1!uno:
I agree in that he will never be like Derek Jeter, because Alex actually has to go ridiculously above and beyond to win an award:
And finally, this brainiac: Whomever brought up the man on third less than two outs stat is right on. I am able to watch about 125 games a year, from my home in Boston no less (grew up in NJ), and I see the same thing everybody else sees; unproductive outs, unable to drive the ball for a sacrifice fly, overanxious, underaggressive, refuses to hit defensively for the team, etc. If he converted on half of those man on third less than two out situations with his natural ability he have David Ortiz like numbers and not just 90% of the league would give their right arm for numbers.
Now usually I rip on sportswriters, and not fans. So why start on the fans now? Well, this isn't going to be a running theme on this blog, but there comes a point in time where you have to stand up and say "you idiots are making the rest of us look stupid. Shut your unknowledgable mouths and stop listening to jackasses like Lupica before you start spouting your asinine opinions." This is simply a reflection of the idiots like Lupica and Celizic. This is the result of the mindless society who believes whatever they read. I meet more and more of these people in person and online every day. They're giving the rest of us a bad name. Seriously, they're starting to sound like Red Sox fans. What everyone seems to miss here is there's no "fix" needed to win the championship. Minor tweaks, sure. Better pitching would help. The hottest team is the one that wins in October. The Yankees just didn't get hot (again). Jeff Weaver and Kenny Rogers both stunk it up in the post season for the Yankees, and yet one of them won the only game in which his team was victorius in the World Series, and the other won the clinching game. Both got hot at exactly the right time. Does this mean the Yankees should go out and get Weaver and Rogers to "get them over the hump"? No, of course not. You build your team to make the post season. After that, it's like poker: even if you have pocket aces, there is no guarantee of victory, just a better chance.
posted by Mr. Faded Glory @ 12:48 PM
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All he cares about is his individual stats and what his batting average is at any given moment
No wonder Alex has to have two shrinks -- he's got people living inside his head now. It must be hard when everyone knows what you feel!
Seriously, I have to believe these people are 15-year-olds who don't know how to form an original opinion yet, or they just like plagurizing other people's ideas because it makes them look like they follow the team just as closely as these "reporters" do. I can only hope they all go running off the cliff like the lemmings they are.
I can only hope they all go running off the cliff like the lemmings they are.
I wanna hug the bisch right now.
Will never again hear of lemmings without thinking of this.
Will never again hear of lemmings without thinking of this.
HEE
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