Comments on: Mark Teixeira Was Born a Yankee

By: Andrew in Rochester

Andrew in Rochester — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:50:05 +0000

Also don’t compare a baseball front office to a serial killer. That’s absolutely pathetic.

By: neal s

neal s — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:22:19 +0000

For once and for all, Drew, try to address the point I’ve made time and again: there is no direct correlation between payroll and wins. I haven’t seen you offer anything close to a cogent argument refuting that statement.

Prove me wrong. Prove that a high payroll year after year translates into winning records, playoff appearances, and championships. As soon as you can do that, you’ll have some ground to stand on. That would be the point where the conversation you want to have can start. Until then, you’re not even playing.

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:24:43 +0000

Neal you sly dog.

You got a mention on Roch’s blog. You might have to start getting moderators…

*whistles*

By: df1570

df1570 — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:36:19 +0000

If you have cable and they carry MASN, you HAVE to pay for it, Dan. If you think the team being dishonest to the fans is “funny”, you should read the book on the life of The Son of Sam…you might find that funny too, then.

Trust me, I wouldn’t be hoodwinked out of $2.65 every month if I didn’t have to pay it by force. You keep forgetting – or you just don’t want to lay blame in the right area – that the team launched MASN strictly in an effort to “compete with the Yankees and Red Sox and their revenue streams” – and, of course, they’ve reneged on that promise.

So, I’d rather take that $2.65 I’m shelling out and spend it on bottle liners for Ethan.

And then, I’d go see the games using my press pass (for free) until the team’s Director of Communications was unprofessional to me, which took about 3 games last season — and then, I’d stop going. Again. Like most of the fans have done, of course.

But, I’ll always talk about the team, write about the team and be honest about the progress (insert joke here) of the team because, well, that’s my job, for one, and because I long for the days when the city has as much fervor and excitement for baseball as they do right now for football.

By: dan the man

dan the man — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:42:08 +0000

I love the $2 MASN thing. Makes me laugh every time. I don’t have cable, so it’s not like you HAVE to pay for MASN. There are other ways to see the O’s play for free.

And I disagree about MacPhail automatically being NOT smart if he’s working for the O’s. So what? An opportunity presented itself, his father worked here, he’s had success with other teams that were bad. On the contrary, I think it says a lot about him and his character to come here and try to get this franchise off the ground. I’m glad there’s someone with a brain up there for once.

Nice of Roch to plug the site on his latest post.