People here bash the shit out of the Yankees (because they win)

[DainBramaged]

How come NY celebrates World Championships without drama?

[TomClash]

1. We have a parade

Every time a team wins.

[Upton]

2. No..

the Yankees get the shit bashed out of them because they try to buy championships.

[DainBramaged]

4. Every fucking team would if they knew how to make money like the Yankees......

[Upton]

5. So?

Oh, and the Yankees have only won 2 titles in the new century...so they're not getting bashed for winning, because they're not. Deal with it.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

8. Yep.

And before someone returns with "27 World Series Wins", all that matters is this season. The Cardinals have eleven in a relatively tiny market, that's much more impressive.

People bash the Yankees because of their obnoxious fan base.

[Scuba]

6. "Knew how"? Well the Yankee's do "know how" to be in the largest market. Some "know how".

[TomClash]

15. There is A LOT of competition in the NY market

For entertainment dollars.

NY metropolitan area has at least two of every major sports teams, and that is just for starters.

[Barack_America]

19. And 10X the population of many other markets.

[TomClash]

20. And 20x the competition nt

[Barack_America]

22. You mean 2X. NYC has 20 MLB teams?

Sorry, but NYC simply has a larger market per team. And let's not get started on standard of living and what people are able/willing to pay for tickets (also much higher in NYC).

The secret to their success is largely due to geography.

[TomClash]

26. The competition . . .

. . . for entertainment dollars is not simply limited to baseball.

Their success has to do with many things, not just "geography."

And I'm no Yankee fan.

[mythology]

36. That doesn't actually explain anything

None of the other New York based teams have been anywhere near as successful over such a long period of time. The Yankees have been willing to spend in recent years, but so have the Red Sox and that hasn't gotten them as many titles and this year's team was pretty bad from what I understand (I'm not a baseball fan but my boss was forlorn over the Red Sox this year).

[Barack_America]

39. It explains why they have the money to buy. And why they've done such a poor job with...

...their farm teams. Which, ironically, also explains their current predicament of numerous overpaid, underperforming players. But being able to scoop up the best free agents and trade prospects worked well for them for many years.

[Barack_America]

14. The Yankees BUILT THAT!

[neverforget]

44. ROFL!

[proud2BlibKansan]

46. Market size also helps.

[KamaAina]

34. Which explains why so many people across the country have thrown in their lot with the Red Sox

who only have the second-highest payroll in baseball.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

3. Go 9ers!

[Angry Dragon]

7. The Yankees are the Cowboys of baseball

[Egalitarian Thug]

28. Only in the fantasies of Texans.

And even if there were some basis for comparison, the cowboys would be the Yankees of football.

[Iggo]

9. It's not because they win. It's because they're assholes about it.

Do you live in a city other than New York? Have you experienced Yankee fans at your ballpark? Same with Red Wings fans, and I hear its the same with Lakers fans. People don't hate those teams because they win. They hate them because they're dicks.

[Earth_First]

11. Ever watch Jeter chew bubble gum?

I get so verbally angry over the on base shots of Jeter chewing bubble gum.

Even something as innocent as chewing bubble gum is done with such arrogance and conceeded will.

Makes me want to puke every time.

[Iggo]

13. Yeah, that gum. Always chewing, chewing, chewing.

And with every smack he's probably saying, "I hate Iggo. I hate Iggo. I hate Iggo..."

Arrogant bastard.

[baldguy]

30. ^^ This ^^

[titaniumsalute]

10. They win...oops wait. Who's in the World Series?? N/T

[Motown_Johnny]

12. No, we bash the Yankees because they try to buy winning teams

instead of developing them.

[Populist_Prole]

27. Bingo. That's why we never liked them from the 70's on

I'm not a sports fan anymore but I see nothing changed in that regard.

[CANDO]

43. Don't develop players?

What? Munson, Mattingly, Righetti, Williams, Jeter, Rivera, Pettitte, Posada, Cano. Whatchubeensmokin?

[trumad]

16. Flame Bait.

LOL

[madinmaryland]

31. Heh! I am just going to sit back and watch a Sports Forum thread in GD!!

Should go well!!

[msanthrope]

17. 'Cause with 27 of 'em we know how to handle ourselves. nt

[FSogol]

18. Fail. With all the money they spend & resources they have, why don't they win more

championships? Only 27? Bah!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. I was a big Yankees fan when I was a little kid in the 1950s

Yogi Berra and Mickey Mantle were heroes. But when I moved to Oakland in the late 60s I became a big A's fan. When their dynasty in the early 70s came to an end because of free agency, it was the Yankees covetous ways that lured Reggie Jackson and Catfish Hunter away. Charlie Finley had a real eye for home-grown talent and building teams from scratch. George Steinbrenner's bank account had a real eye for store bought talent. It didn't help the Yankees' image that their owner from 1973 was a real abrasive dickhead who decided to try to buy his way to championships.

[Bake]

23. Did the Yankees make the Series?

I thought it was over and the Giants won ...

Bake

[HangOnKids]

25. The Yanks Got Swept By The Team That Just Got Swept

Someone is very bitter about the Tiger ass kicking. WAAAAAHHHHHH.

[hifiguy]

24. The Yanks aren't as much fun to hate since

George Steinbrenner shuffled off this mortal coil. He was truly the Trump of the sports world - a self-aggrandizing blowhard who thought the rules applied to everybody but him. And Derek Jeter has way too much skill, dignity and class for any real baseball fan to dislike him. A-Rod is another story entirely. He's whiny, a post-season failure and an admitted cheater.

What is so frustrating is that the fans of most teams accept the up-and-down cycles of their teams as a part of the game. There are good years and bad years. We accept that. My Twins had a good decade for the most part but the last two years have been brutal. They will be good again. Yankees fans expect a World Series every year. They're like five-year-olds.

[liberalhistorian]

29. Because they win?

You mean like how they trounced the Tigers to make it to the World Series, where they made a clean sweep of the Giants???????

[madinmaryland]

32. Can someone please fucking explain this...

[KamaAina]

35. It's a throwback

Apparently the Squealers actually wore those many, many years ago (before TV, one hopes).

[madinmaryland]

38. 1934. The Squealing Bumble Bees!!

[tabasco]

42. Ahhhh, aren't you a cute

little pussy.

[KamaAina]

45. Ever been in the Sports group?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1204

Derisive faux team names like "Squealers", "Cowpies", "Natinals" (after the infamous misspelled unies) and, yes, "Forty-Whiners" are everyday currency there.

[tabasco]

40. A Pittsburgh Steeler celebrating the history of one of the NFL's oldest franchises.

Get out much?

[whistler162]

33. No the Yankees are bashed because they are the Yankees.

GO Dodgers, Brooklyn that is!

[cherokeeprogressive]

37. I don't bash 'em because they win... I bash 'em because I fuckin' hate 'em. It's that simple. n/t

[yawnmaster]

41. Because they lose with drama?? eom

[DiverDave]

47. Because freaking stienbriener (sp,who cares?) is the cause of the

mega salaries.
By BUYING the best team money could buy, every athlete in professional sports saw a way to get more money.
If a 2nd baseman makes x and is y important to a team, I am also y and deserve x too.
See how that worked?
So now I cannot afford a baseball game, football game with my kids.
Thanks georgie, you rich ahole.
THATS why I will NEVER like the freaking yankees

[Capt. Obvious]

48. They moved the Sports forum