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ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on May 30, 2007, 10:24:13 am ---Steinbreinner has forgotten what it was that got him to his late 90's championships - A farm system.

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I don't think he has forgotten.  I think he is aware of his own age and aware he doesn't have time to develop a crop of new stars.  Given the probability of turning out another set like the Yankees did in those years, I'd say it's damn near impossible to happen again (or else every team would have a Jeter now and then) before Steinbrenner dies.  He knows this.  His only chance at more titles is to buy them.

pointdablame:
The team just can't mesh.  When we are hitting, we're not pitching well.. when we have someone make a good start, we can't get any runs on the board.

I really have to agree about the farm system.  George has totally destroyed our farm system and we have no prospects and a bunch of old players on the field prone to getting hurt.  Add in A-Rod and the fact that he is a huge primadonna and a major pain in the ass and this is what you get.  You also get bad press when people like A-Rod decides to yell at infielders like he did the other day... real professional there kid.   :banghead:

I'm a lifelong Yankee fan and am still watching.. but this is painful lately.  Salary aside (which I agree is utterly ridiculous), there is no reason we should be playing this type of baseball.  On paper, they are unstoppable, and yet there are days when they look like amateurs.  I don't know what it is exactly, but the players can't mesh like they did in previous years.  Too many egos maybe, who knows.

I hate Boston with a passion as Yankee fans is supposed to, but they are fun to watch this season.  You can't deny them when they're playing .700 ball and look the way they do.  Mussina made a comment the other day about how in order to win 90 games, the Yanks have to go 30 over .500 for the rest of the season... and that to win the division, that'd have to assume the Red Sox only played .500 ball for the rest of the season.... neither of those things are going to happen if you ask me (as sad as it makes me to say it)

I guess the Yanks just really want to play some more golf this year....

shardian:

--- Quote from: pointdablame on May 31, 2007, 12:18:42 pm ---You also get bad press when people like A-Rod decides to yell at infielders like he did the other day... real professional there kid.   :banghead:

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I thought that was pretty funny actually. Since when did pro baseball become so damn serious? It is supposed to be fun, and light hearted. For a sport in which about 90% of the game is spent with everyone just standing or sitting around scratching their crotches, there needs to be some fun. Jeez, back in the day it was all in good fun when a pitcher used vaseline for example. Modern day baseball is some damn uptight it is more like what a Royal British baseball league would be like IMO. I barely even watch baseball highlights any more because everything is so uptight.

Hell, little tricks like that, along with heckling the pitcher/batter are what make the game fun. Catchers will talk to batters all the time to try and distract them. Infielders talk at baserunners. IT IS PART OF THE GAME PEOPLE and things like that are what made the game fun in the first place. Seeing that smirk on A-Rod's face made me like him more. He is out there having fun. Hell don't accuse him for being unprofessional, accuse that infielder for falling for such a trick - PROFESSIONALS are supposed to be immune to things like that. Hell, look at Barry bonds and all the ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- he is putting up with. I personally hate the guy, but dang you gotta give him a teensy (very teensy) amount of credit for taking all of the heckling and threats and still doing his thing.

JackTucky:
I thought the arod thing (I heard he said "mine" like the shortstop would) was awesome.

=J

pointdablame:
Don't get me wrong.. I thought it was hilarious as well.  I also heard he said "mine" which isn't really heckling, and is something the infielder SHOULD be listening for if it was really one of his teammates.

That didn't stop the media from spinning it into bad press though.  The game IS too serious nowadays, I agree.  I guess that's what happens when it's billion dollar business and not a game anymore.

Funny yes... "good for the team"... probably not so much.

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