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Originally Posted by ashantewarrier
Waahh 
...I remember the 1980's and the long 18 year drought between championships. It's not always easy street for the Yanks. Heck it was 9 years until they won their last championship.
BTW- The Sox are not too far behind the so-called "evil empire" with a $180M payroll. ...
Why you're complaining tell the small market teams to stop hoarding all that luxury tax money for themselves and invest it into their teams. |
I agree that teams shouldn't hoard the luxury tax money. Also, I DID include Boston in my comment if you read it again.
No championship for a whole 18 years? None in the last 9? Waahh! My team hasn't had a winning season in 18 years!!! In that 18 year "drought", the Yanks had just 5 losing seasons (one of which resulted in the Yanks getting the 6th draft pick and took a guy named Jeter), a tragic 97 win season w/no playoff appearance, and 3 playoff seasons. Sorry, but losing in the playoffs isn't a bad season.
You will NEVER make anyone sorry for a team that has been in the playoffs 15 of the last 16 years, would have been 16 of the last 17 w/o the strike, and they still are in position to continue for the foreseeable future.
Strings of success that long have less to do with great drafting, great coaching, or great developing of talent, and more to do with money. Nice if your favorite team has it, but don't expect the other 75% of baseball fans whose teams are poor in comparison like your team. To the rest of us most of your playoff appearances feel rather cheap, your crying about not winning a championship is annoying, and seeing a third of the daily news articles be about your team frustrate us as well. There is MUCH more to the major leagues than Boston and New York.
Not being a fan of either team I am just VERY tired of hearing so much about those teams and I'm sick of losing players to those teams. Hard being a fan when few stay on the team for more than 5 1/2 years. In my view, that's largely a result of the massive contracts which BOS & NY have helped make so common, thus my dislike for those teams.