Comments on: Yankees Win? Like It Never Happened. http://www.thelosscolumn.com/2009/yankees-win-like-it-never-happened/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:00:08 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dan the man http://www.thelosscolumn.com/2009/yankees-win-like-it-never-happened/comment-page-1/#comment-32205 dan the man Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:37:01 +0000 http://www.thelosscolumn.com/?p=5594#comment-32205 <a href='#comment-32202' rel="nofollow">@Andrew</a> - The Yankees aren't all of the problem. We need to field a non-retarded starting staff, for one. If I recall, our 2008 record against the Yanks was pretty even. Yeah, I see the bigger problems in baseball. We can do nothing about it. So... why get ourselves frustrated talking so much about it? We all know the problems. Yes, we need to play well against the Yankees and Red Sox, but our overall road record in '09 was fucking dismal. I think we won one game in Toronto. Toronto! Come on. .500 first, then we can worry about fixing the game of baseball.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('32205','dan the man'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('32205','dan the man','<a href=\'#comment-32202\' rel=\"nofollow\">@Andrew<\/a> - The Yankees aren\'t all of the problem. We need to field a non-retarded starting staff, for one. If I recall, our 2008 record against the Yanks was pretty even.\r\n\r\nYeah, I see the bigger problems in baseball. We can do nothing about it. So... why get ourselves frustrated talking so much about it? We all know the problems. Yes, we need to play well against the Yankees and Red Sox, but our overall road record in \'09 was fucking dismal. I think we won one game in Toronto. Toronto! Come on. .500 first, then we can worry about fixing the game of baseball.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Andrew – The Yankees aren’t all of the problem. We need to field a non-retarded starting staff, for one. If I recall, our 2008 record against the Yanks was pretty even.

Yeah, I see the bigger problems in baseball. We can do nothing about it. So… why get ourselves frustrated talking so much about it? We all know the problems. Yes, we need to play well against the Yankees and Red Sox, but our overall road record in ‘09 was fucking dismal. I think we won one game in Toronto. Toronto! Come on. .500 first, then we can worry about fixing the game of baseball.

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]]> By: Tomás http://www.thelosscolumn.com/2009/yankees-win-like-it-never-happened/comment-page-1/#comment-32203 Tomás Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:03:14 +0000 http://www.thelosscolumn.com/?p=5594#comment-32203 Get rid of the unbalanced schedule and, believe it or not, profit sharing, as it just helps many small clubs' ownership stay mediocre to collect money, see: Pittsburgh Pirates. If there was an actual risk from poor performance (like the team folding or moving), there would be better performance, not all problems would be fixed, but it would at least solve the problem of teams losing with a profit to get more money.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('32203','Tomás'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('32203','Tomás','Get rid of the unbalanced schedule and, believe it or not, profit sharing, as it just helps many small clubs\' ownership stay mediocre to collect money, see: Pittsburgh Pirates.\r\n\r\nIf there was an actual risk from poor performance (like the team folding or moving), there would be better performance, not all problems would be fixed, but it would at least solve the problem of teams losing with a profit to get more money.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Get rid of the unbalanced schedule and, believe it or not, profit sharing, as it just helps many small clubs’ ownership stay mediocre to collect money, see: Pittsburgh Pirates.

If there was an actual risk from poor performance (like the team folding or moving), there would be better performance, not all problems would be fixed, but it would at least solve the problem of teams losing with a profit to get more money.

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]]> By: Andrew http://www.thelosscolumn.com/2009/yankees-win-like-it-never-happened/comment-page-1/#comment-32202 Andrew Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:54:18 +0000 http://www.thelosscolumn.com/?p=5594#comment-32202 <a href='#comment-32201' rel="nofollow">@dan the man</a> - Winning the World Series is not the point. Nobody in their right mind would have called the 2001-2008 Yankees a failure. They were easily one of the very, very best teams over that period and they will most likely continue to be one of the very, very best teams into the foreseeable future, and a lot of that is because of their inherent financial advantage and because they have basic common sense enough to know that "Mark Teixeria good. CC Sabathia good. Danys Baez bad! Jason Marquis bad!". And so, because of this and the unbalanced schedule, if the Orioles are EVER going to smell .500 baseball again they will need to get past New York. And I hope you are starting to see the real problem.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('32202','Andrew'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('32202','Andrew','<a href=\'#comment-32201\' rel=\"nofollow\">@dan the man<\/a> - Winning the World Series is not the point. Nobody in their right mind would have called the 2001-2008 Yankees a failure. They were easily one of the very, very best teams over that period and they will most likely continue to be one of the very, very best teams into the foreseeable future, and a lot of that is because of their inherent financial advantage and because they have basic common sense enough to know that \"Mark Teixeria good. CC Sabathia good. Danys Baez bad! Jason Marquis bad!\".\r\n\r\nAnd so, because of this and the unbalanced schedule, if the Orioles are EVER going to smell .500 baseball again they will need to get past New York. And I hope you are starting to see the real problem.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @dan the man – Winning the World Series is not the point. Nobody in their right mind would have called the 2001-2008 Yankees a failure. They were easily one of the very, very best teams over that period and they will most likely continue to be one of the very, very best teams into the foreseeable future, and a lot of that is because of their inherent financial advantage and because they have basic common sense enough to know that “Mark Teixeria good. CC Sabathia good. Danys Baez bad! Jason Marquis bad!”.

And so, because of this and the unbalanced schedule, if the Orioles are EVER going to smell .500 baseball again they will need to get past New York. And I hope you are starting to see the real problem.

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]]> By: dan the man http://www.thelosscolumn.com/2009/yankees-win-like-it-never-happened/comment-page-1/#comment-32201 dan the man Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:32:53 +0000 http://www.thelosscolumn.com/?p=5594#comment-32201 Meh, on to the hot stove season. As long as the Orioles' goal is simply getting to fucking .500, I really could care less who wins the World Series every year. When we're a contender and the Yanks are still screwing up baseball, that's when it will really hit home. Until then (that is, when we are contending), nobody that the Yanks spend a gazillion dollars to sign would have come here anyway. Maybe that's a skewed way to think about it, or a way to avoid the situation, but that's the way I see it.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('32201','dan the man'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('32201','dan the man','Meh, on to the hot stove season. As long as the Orioles\' goal is simply getting to fucking .500, I really could care less who wins the World Series every year. When we\'re a contender and the Yanks are still screwing up baseball, that\'s when it will really hit home. Until then (that is, when we are contending), nobody that the Yanks spend a gazillion dollars to sign would have come here anyway. Maybe that\'s a skewed way to think about it, or a way to avoid the situation, but that\'s the way I see it.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Meh, on to the hot stove season. As long as the Orioles’ goal is simply getting to fucking .500, I really could care less who wins the World Series every year. When we’re a contender and the Yanks are still screwing up baseball, that’s when it will really hit home. Until then (that is, when we are contending), nobody that the Yanks spend a gazillion dollars to sign would have come here anyway. Maybe that’s a skewed way to think about it, or a way to avoid the situation, but that’s the way I see it.
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]]> By: Andrew http://www.thelosscolumn.com/2009/yankees-win-like-it-never-happened/comment-page-1/#comment-32200 Andrew Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:59:29 +0000 http://www.thelosscolumn.com/?p=5594#comment-32200 My alma mater just did a weird stage play which featured a Mamet spoof, which I think sums up Baseball (capital B) in many ways this week: "Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuckity fuck fuck" (Works better loud and while smoking a ridiculously big cigar and fondling yourself) Seriously though, I can't really explain how disheartened I am at the whole thing. Somewhere BBM is laughing at me...I will say this: if the Yankees finally winning it all (as if they have had bad or unsuccessful seasons previously) finally wakes everyone up to a serious dialogue about the uneven playing field then it will ultimately be a good thing. Oh, wait. Selig is still the commish? Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuckity fuck fuck.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('32200','Andrew'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('32200','Andrew','My alma mater just did a weird stage play which featured a Mamet spoof, which I think sums up Baseball (capital B) in many ways this week:\r\n\r\n\"Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuckity fuck fuck\"\r\n\r\n(Works better loud and while smoking a ridiculously big cigar and fondling yourself)\r\n\r\nSeriously though, I can\'t really explain how disheartened I am at the whole thing. Somewhere BBM is laughing at me...I will say this: if the Yankees finally winning it all (as if they have had bad or unsuccessful seasons previously) finally wakes everyone up to a serious dialogue about the uneven playing field then it will ultimately be a good thing.\r\n\r\nOh, wait. Selig is still the commish? Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuckity fuck fuck.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> My alma mater just did a weird stage play which featured a Mamet spoof, which I think sums up Baseball (capital B) in many ways this week:

“Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuckity fuck fuck”

(Works better loud and while smoking a ridiculously big cigar and fondling yourself)

Seriously though, I can’t really explain how disheartened I am at the whole thing. Somewhere BBM is laughing at me…I will say this: if the Yankees finally winning it all (as if they have had bad or unsuccessful seasons previously) finally wakes everyone up to a serious dialogue about the uneven playing field then it will ultimately be a good thing.

Oh, wait. Selig is still the commish? Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuckity fuckity fuck fuck.

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