Yankees Win 2009 World Series

[Libertas1776]

Source: NY Times

A season of redemption came to its conclusion Wednesday night for the Yankees, who beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-3, in Game 6 of the 2009 World Series. The victory gave the Yankees their 27th championship, a quest nine years in the making.


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[majamay]

1. The Yankee$$$$ win! n/t

Think about it. If it's not about money and you're the Yankees owner

[RedSock]

2. BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[Libertas1776]

3. I'd rather pay for tickets

to sit outside the Ebbets Field Apartment project and watch an imaginary Dodgers game then waste my time watching the Stankees "win" a championship in that new stadium of their's, the House that Greed Built.

[murielm99]

4. Isn't it fun to hate the Yankees? n/t

[Libertas1776]

8. indubitably old chum!

:)

[BeyondGeography]

11. You mean the team that ditched New York City for a cushy land deal in California?

Speaking of greed...

[Libertas1776]

22. You mean the team that

escaped the city after a royal screw job by Robert Moses, the man who held the title of King Douche of NY long before Mike Bloomberg?

(Although, in fairness, I am still not excusing the "great sin" by the part of O'Malley :puke: )

[TheCML]

5. if there is anything good to come from this

maybe the yankees can cover their employees dental plans for another year.

[rhett o rick]

6. Major league baseball is dead to me. The rich win again. nt

[proteus_lives]

7. I watched the series and it seemed like those played better won.

;-)

[MessiahRp]

23. When you buy an All Star Team you SHOULD play better

Most blatant buying of a championship in Team Sports History and a black eye for baseball. And don't say "they didn't break any rules" because frankly neither did a lot of CEOs who gamed the system and wrecked our economy either. Just because you used your influence to corrupt the rules so you can get away with something doesn't make it not wrong.

Rp

[alcibiades_mystery]

29. Bitter

:rofl:

[MessiahRp]

76. All Baseball fans should be bitter..

This bought World Series title will only encourage NY to spend more and by osmosis the Red Sox, Mets, Dodgers and to a lesser extent the Angels will have to keep up again by spending way too much because their fan bases will want them to compete. And what about the rest of the teams? They're going to become less and less competitive as only a handful of teams can even get remotely close to Yankees' funny money and they're going to be stuck with far less talent as a result.

All this does is enhance the inequity of the current system tenfold.

The Yankees not winning made them look foolish for spending that much money every year. Other GMs were happy to figure out another route and salaries actually started to decrease this year.

Not going to happen now. The Yankees won, Philadelphia is a large enough market with a lot of bigger contracts. Boston and both LA teams were in the playoffs.

Things just got dramatically worse for the Milwaukees, KCs, Cincys, Clevelands, Pittsburghs, Tampa Bays, etc of the world.

And in effect the sport just got worse for 90% of the fans that don't reside in New York.

Rp

[SergeStorms]

33. And they pay a hefty fine for that..........

which is distributed between the other AL owners who promptly use that money to:

a.) Buy better talent to compete with the Yankees

b.) Put the money in their pockets and complain about the Yankees unfair advantage.

If you chose b.) BINGO! You're a winner. :)

No one becomes a Major League Baseball Team owner to lose money. They're all greed-heads. The Steinbrenners just happen to be much better at it than the rest. At least they give their fans their money's worth, which is more than can be said about the vast majority of owners who cheat their fan base by putting sub-standard teams on the field while pocketing huge sums of money for nothing.

[MessiahRp]

75. The amount of money they make from revenue sharing is a pittance

in compared to what the Yankees keep to use on payroll alone.

To act like there is an even playing field because of the minimalist revenue sharing plan in place is either a vast lack of understanding of reality or covering up for your favorite team.

Rp

[BeyondGeography]

9. Bad night for the haters

Wah.

[Libertas1776]

14. Actually,

it's quite a good night. Now we have another reason to hate them. :P

[iandhr]

20. The haters piss me off

there is no salary cap is Basketball because the team that has the highest payroll the Knicks stinks to high heaven

[rhett o rick]

37. Sports at most levels has become all about winning. The NY Yankees epitomizes how money

has destroyed Pro Sports. And the worst thing is that our youth think that winning is the goal. One day we will have animated games so the owners wont have to pay a cent, and each team can win on the home town's screens. Everyone is a winner, everyone is happy.

[itsrobert]

10. A season of REDEMPTION of over $200,000,000 n/t

Salary Cap Now!

[ClusterFreak]

16. You said it!!!

Salary Cap Right Fucking Now!

[SergeStorms]

34. Why do you think the other owners.......

constantly balk at a salary cap? Because they LOVE the money they get from the "revenue sharing" fines the Yankees pay for their talent. Now, they COULD use that money to buy better players, but most put that money directly in their bank accounts and cheat their fan base out of players that could make them contenders.

Yeah, it's a greedy sport, but what sport isn't? In essence, baseball is entertainment, and the New York Yankees entertain and please their fans like no other sports team in history. Wow, you're right. That really sucks, doesn't it? :sarcasm:

[itsrobert]

35. The other owners would have a salary cap in a heartbeat

It's the Players Union that doesn't want it. So you really don't know what you are talking about.

[road2000]

57. The Lindner family in Cincinnati comes to mind...

Had to have that new ballpark when there was nothing wrong with Riverfront. And BTW, the stadium is not named for a "Great American" pastime, but for Lindner's freaking insurance company.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

12. The best team money can buy...

...when is the last time the Yankees organization developed a player(s) through their farm system, ie... A, AA, AAA baseball leagues? I used to be a big Yankees fan, back in the day of Thurman Munson, Chris Chambliss, Billy Martin, Sparky Lyle. When Graig Nettles left the Yankees for San Diego, so went any affection I had for the Yankees. No real baseball players left.

[Dreamer Tatum]

18. You mean the 70's ended?

Wow. Time moves on. Who'da thunk it.

[alcibiades_mystery]

27. Jeter, Posada, Petitte, Cano, Cabrera, and Mariano Rivera all came up in the Yankee farm system

It's true that Utley, Rollins, Howard, and Hamel came up in the Phillies farm system, but Cliff Lee didn't, and Joe Blanton didn't, and Pedro Martinez didn't, and Jason Werth didn't, and Brad Lidge didn't. And on and on. So, who are these big ticket trades and free agents? Sabathia, Damon, A-Rod, Teixeira. And who? Burnett? He got chased out of game 5. Look at the Phillies: Ibanez, Feliz, half the middle relief (which is not true of the Yankees). But it doesn't really matter anyway: this is free agency, and I'm glad players can negotiate for salary.

[Thothmes]

30. As did the manager if I remember correctly

He use to be one of Joe Torre's catchers.

[KamaAina]

48. Robinson Cano and Melky Cabrera

both Yankee farmhands.

[ClusterFreak]

13. $$$$$$$$$$$....

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$...

Etc., etc. and so on and so on.

And so forth.

Et al.

p.s. If I spent a quarter bil' on my team, pinching all the best players from all the smaller market teams out there, I'd win the fucking World Series or at the very least win 100 games a year and always make the playoffs too!

Oh, BTW....


$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$...

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

15. Exactly...

... the point I was trying to get across in my first post.

[proteus_lives]

17. Funny, all I hear is......

Wah! Wah! Wah! :cry: Wah! Wah! Wah! :cry:

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

19. Then you are tone deaf...

... at the least. No one has resorted to single syllable one liners, as you have.

[ClusterFreak]

24. Didn't have any skin in the game...

...not a Phillies fan.

Not whining...just speaking every syllable of the truth is all.

[alcibiades_mystery]

36. Who?

Who are the "best" players in the Yankee line-up "pinched" from small market teams?

Jeter? No. He's a farm system guy.
Damon? Oh, yes, he was "pinched" from the very small market team known as the Boston Red Sox. Obscure, I know.
Teixeira? Maybe you got one there. God knows the Los Angeles Angels are hardly even a going concern!
A-Rod? Texas signed his contract, and sent him packing when they couldn't pay. Not exactly a pinch there.
Posada? Farm system guy.
Swisher. Well, maybe. The Chicago White Sox aren't really a "big market" team, right? Oh, the A's you say? Like their strategy for years hasn't been to bring up young talent and sell 'em off. And really, Swisher?
Matsui? Come on.
Cabrera? Farm system guy.
Cano? Farm system guy.
Oh, I know, I know! Hairston Jr.! That's the guy that won them the Series, pinched most brutally from the Baltimore Orioles when they traded him for a minor league catcher.

The only arguments you have are on Sabathia and Burnett, maybe.

[ClusterFreak]

42. Bottom line is the Yankees buy up everybody.

Jeter? Farm system guy...whom they can afford to pay.
Damon? No Boston isn't small market but the Yankees can afford to pay him too.
Teixeira? Sabathia and Burnett? The base salary for those three is more than the 2008 Opening Day TOTAL player payrolls of the Pirates ($48,689,783), Athletics ($47,967,126), Rays ($43,820,597), and Marlins ($21,811,500).
A-Rod? Please. Don't get me started. Yeah Texas signed his quarter billion dollar, 10 year contract. And who stepped in to pay it when they couldn't?

I could go on about the other guys on your list...my point is the Yankees can afford to buy and to keep or to home grow and keep any player they want. Always. They are unencumbered by any financial restrictions, including the luxury tax. The Red Sox, the Mets and a few other teams try to keep up with them but the Yankees simply spend them all under the table.

The salary cap must come to baseball or things will never change.

[NYC Liberal]

61. According to you, money buys championships. So the Yankees should win every year.

But they don't. They've spent money (like every other team) every year, and yet they do not win every year.

Because money doesn't play on the field, the players do. It's not about money. It's about teamwork, skill, determination, and drive. The Yankees had that this year, and the best team won.



And A-Rod finally getting a ring made this Series even more special! :D

[wisteria]

21. I am not happy about it- being a Phiily fan, but I have to extend congratulations to the winners.n/t

[apnu]

39. Nice and classy +1 for you! (nt)

[leftynyc]

41. Very gracious of you

And I do love your city.

[Purveyor]

25. Thanks for the report. I will not watch baseball past the month of October. eom

[Algorem]

26. who spat more?seems like the team that spits more should be recognized somehow.

[Lugnut]

28. Yay!

We're celebrating in my house!

[comtec]

31. Best team money can buy

best performance drugs can give.
go yankees
I have given up on baseball a long time ago.

it's not rigged or fixed, so much as just... hypocritical and bullshit!

but then again, so are all professional sports.

[Capt. America]

32. Its really simple, the Yankmee$ $pent 450+ million dollars in the offseason on 3 players.

Where is Der Kommisar $elig? Can we get a salary cap for fuckssake?

[apnu]

38. Well, I'll be classy... Congrats Yanks from Chicago!

Go Cubs!

[philly_bob]

40. Decisively outplayed us in all but the first game.

Most impressive Yank to me: Derek Jeter. Besides his physical skills, a real personality on the field, always on the top step of the dugout to cheer, smiles and laughs a lot, seems to enjoy baseball.

[RedCloud]

43. Complete asshole luckout!

They won't win again in a million years. Did you see the NY fans always threatening to interfere with the balls close to the stands when it favored the Yanks?

[fascisthunter]

44. it's all about what team has the most money... buy a World Series

it's why the MLB is no longer America's number one sport... it's slow, corrupt and filled with greed. The sport itself comes last, and spectators are suckers for funding it all.

[joewicker_TX]

45. Agreed!

It's the best team money can buy. I'd say it's time for salary caps.

[fascisthunter]

46. yup... long over-due

[dflprincess]

51. Years ago Calvin Griffith

the Twins' first owner said free agency would ruin baseball. Of course, Calvin was notoriously cheap - but he was right.

As they say at Fenway "Yankees Suck!"

[nyy1998]

47. It was just amazing!!!!

I absolutely loved it, especially being in Boston!!!

[Bombero1956]

49. World Series?

Did the Yankees beat Russia in baseball? Did they beat France or Italy in the Fall Classic? Hardly world Champs if the majority of the world doesn't play. At least in soccer there's some truth in the title World Cup. Bud Selig is the worst thing to happen to baseball since the designated hitter.

[Jennicut]

50. It is a classic American game. But even as a Yankees fan I do agree

we did buy a world series win. Caps on baseball may never happen though.

[NYC Liberal]

52. You do know where the name came from, right?

Spalding gave it that name in their baseball guide in the 19th century because they WANTED the series to be a worldwide one. It never happened but that was the plan.

[NYC Liberal]

53. WOOOOHOOOOO!!! 9 long years!

I love this team! Here's to 27 more!

People moaning and whining about payroll don't get that money doesn't walk onto the field, the players do. It takes teamwork, incredible playing, and straight out drive to win the Series - and that's what the Yankees have.

Oh, and...


A-Rod finally gets his ring!
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:



So does Matsui!
:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[ClarkUSA]

54. Great photos. Way to go, Matsui!

The Yankees deserved to win. The team played superbly.

And to those who are talking about "buying a championship": if that's the case, then shouldn't the
Yankees win every year, year after year?

Some folks should grow up and show some class like the couple of Philly fans on this thread.

[NYC Liberal]

55. The Phillies made this an awesome series to watch.

It could have easily gone another game to Game 7. They have great talent - and let's not forget, they were also the defending Champions.

[ClarkUSA]

56. Definitely. They'll be fun to watch next year as will the Yankees.

I predicted Yankees in 7 but the Phillies' offense underperformed. With all their best players under contract next year, I'm sure
they'll be formidable once again.

BTW, do you think the Yankees will keep Matsui? Not sure if they want a full-time DH, but he sure has proved his value time
and again. I hope they sign up Damon again, too. He was one of the best performers during this Series.

[madinmaryland]

58. Why do they have to keep dumping this $kankee $hit in this forum?

:grr:

[TK421]

59. They're obligated to n/t ............

just kidding...I'm not supposed to tell you this but they're on $teinbrenner$ payroll

[madinmaryland]

60. It's pretty obviou$. It's just one big vast $kankee Conspiracy.

[TK421]

62. Hold on....I have to grab a calendar here...we're agreeing on something

this is monu-fucking-mental

[madinmaryland]

64. Yeah. Agreeing with an Eaglet fan scares the fucking shit out of me!

:hi:

[TK421]

66. I can't imagine ever sharing the same sentiment with a Cowpies fan, myself!!

:hi:

[madinmaryland]

68. All "bets" are off tomorrow. BTW, didn't Pete Rose take the Phillies to the

World $eries?

Hmmm. Wonder who he bet on to win?

:hide:

[TK421]

70. How much you wanna bet Pete Rose is still gambling?

Oh....all bets are off on Sunday....you're dead meat.....





DEAD MEAT

[El Supremo]

63. When you are moderator you can delete them all.

So when does that happen?

[madinmaryland]

65. Damn straight, El!!!

:D

[Auggie]

67. +1

[madinmaryland]

69. I wonder when the chief $kankee apologist, trumad, will tell us all to

stop whining about the $kankees.

[TK421]

71. Too many other Yankee threads to cover....this IS a hostile takeover

after all....

[Auggie]

72. When it's time to start whining about the New England Patriots?

:)

[madinmaryland]

73. *snort*

You owe me a new keyboard!

:spray:

[Yavin4]

74. For the Haters

27

[bigwillq]

77. kick

:bounce: