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How bad are yanks fans?? [/QUOTE]
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It has been so nice to watch yankee stadium empty before the game is over two nights in a row. Hopefully the rangers can end the series tonight so it can happen again.
[QUOTE=yankeegurl93;215212]As an obvious Yankee fan, I can say that this is not our year.[/QUOTE]
Clearly you didn't spend enough this year.
Your team only doled out $44,000,000 more than the next closest team and $151,000,000 more than the Rangers...
I'm sure they'll rectify that in the off season with a quarter of a billion dollar deal for Cliff Lee.
[QUOTE=Bacchus;215214]Clearly you didn't spend enough this year.
Your team only doled out $44,000,000 more than the next closest team and $151,000,000 more than the Rangers...
I'm sure they'll rectify that in the off season with a quarter of a billion dollar deal for Cliff Lee.[/QUOTE]
$151,000,000 more than the rangers wow!! The billion dollar team is about to get taken out by the bankrupt team.
[QUOTE=Lionsfan780;215215]The billion dollar team is about to get taken out by the bankrupt team.[/QUOTE]
Yikes, I'd never say something like that as there is still baseball to be played. Haven't you ever seen Scream? You don't say something that could in effect be famous last words!
Case in point, I can specifically remember a friend of mine back in 2004, with the Sox down 3-0, jeering me with "NINETEEN EIGHTEEN" and "There's always next year...to get whooped by the Yankees again - tehehehe" - and then suddenly, he disappeared. Gone from the face of the earth!
Heck, I thought he was dead, but strangely enough he emerged from a 5 year slumber last October, back to saying all sorts of stupid s#!t...
The point I am trying to make is, it's always best to be on the conservative side with such remarks, until play on the field has concluded. :D
p.s. That said, my fingers are crossed.
[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times][FONT=Verdana][COLOR=#333333][B]Q: J.D. Drew reminds me of my ex-wife after she started with the Prozac. No highs, no lows, no ***, tight hammies.
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[COLOR=#333333]SG: That was the winner of the "Funniest But Most Secretly Depressing E-Mail I Received During the 2010 Red Sox Season" award.[/COLOR]
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[QUOTE=Bacchus;215214]Clearly you didn't spend enough this year.
Your team only doled out $44,000,000 more than the next closest team and $151,000,000 more than the Rangers...
I'm sure they'll rectify that in the off season with a quarter of a billion dollar deal for Cliff Lee.[/QUOTE]
I simply love when redsox fans complain about payroll. How much more the red sox put spend the rays? Its okay though because the Sox are going to be signing Crawford and i doubt you'll complain once they do.
[QUOTE=jbo29j;216057]Its okay though because the Sox are going to be signing Crawford and i doubt you'll complain once they do.[/QUOTE]
Well, being it would take paying Crawford AND [B]picking up the tab for the entire San Diego Padre roster[/B] to even begin to approach what the Yankees are spending, I doubt I'll stop complaining anytime soon.
The Yankee payroll disparity is the biggest in all of sports. They have no peers globally when it comes to accelerating the cost of the game and it only gets worse year by year. Eventually they will stop calling those without a contract "Free Agents" and just call them "Yankee big payday hopefuls in waiting."
Sadly, this spending spree ends up pricing regular fans out of the ballpark, being in order to compete with the Yankees you have to spend and to spend you need to raise ticket prices (which is why Fenway always has some of the highest ticket prices in the game.)
As for the Rays, I have no sympathy. They play in an oversized gym with fake grass and the taxpayers don't want to spend another dime. They can barely get the gym half full even though they have some of the cheapest ticket prices in the league and recently went to the world series. The fans don't support them and half their payroll is picked up by fans like me going to games at Fenway and Yankee Stadium via revenue sharing. They turn a profit BECAUSE of revenue sharing.
How about instead of taking the money and running, the Rays ownership take the money they get from other teams and put it toward players?
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Sadly, this spending spree ends up pricing regular fans out of the ballpark, being in order to compete with the Yankees you have to spend and to spend you need to raise ticket prices (which is why Fenway always has some of the highest ticket prices in the game.)[/quote]
So the fact their stadium has such a small capacity has nothing to do with it? That wouldn't explain why the the Red sox payroll has gone down this season despite their payroll going up either. Their payroll will probably go up again this season as well with them needing to sign V-mart, a third baseman a closer, Crawford and if they pick up ortiz's option which they shouldn't. The yankees payroll on the other hand is going to down as Jeter is no longer going to get 20 million, and Lee's only rumored as an option if Pettitte leaves.
AS FOR your rays comment i couldnt agree more it's pathetic that there's more Yankee fans in that stadium when they come to play than Rays fans and they had to give away tickets to sell out a game that didnt innolve Arod's 600.
[QUOTE=jbo29j;216085] AS FOR your rays comment i couldnt agree more it's pathetic that there's more Yankee fans in that stadium when they come to play than Rays fans and they had to give away tickets to sell out a game that didnt innolve Arod's 600.[/QUOTE]
Watching Red Sox @ Rays games and not looking directly at the television can be confusing. You'll hear the crowd cheer and have no idea what happened being half the crowd cheers when something good happens for the Rays and the other half cheers when something good happens for the Red Sox. :D
Rangers 2010 American League Champs, god that sounds so sweet. It makes it so much better that they took out 2 teams from th a.l east. Very fitting that arod was the last out because we are still paying him a s*** load of money. The giants or phils better be ready for a fight in the world series. Cliff Lee can pitch 3 times if need be.
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Hmm, maybe I should pick a different security question as this might be a little obvious. :wink2:
[QUOTE=Aereas;216160]I feel like we won the WS at this point. The rest of the games yet to be played don't even matter. [/QUOTE]
Exactly.
There are only two outcomes that matter in Red Sox nation.
The best case scenario, we win it all.
The only other acceptable scenario, the Yankees don't.
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Too bad the Rangers couldnt win the world series but the Giants were just alot better than them. The Giants pitching did an incredible job, the Rangers offense was very good the first two series but did nothing in the world series. But it was still by far the best season in Rangers history. They won the american league by beating the team with the best record in the a.l and then beat the **** out of the yankees.
[QUOTE=Lionsfan780;217810] it was still by far the best season in Rangers history. They won the american league by beating the team with the best record in the a.l and then beat the **** out of the yankees.[/QUOTE]
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Watching the parade, and it couldn't be a more perfect day to celebrate my beloved Giants! FINALLY! So proud of my hometown. Many of us have been waiting for this moment our whole lives! Especially after 2002, which I can [I]finally[/I] LOL about! Hopefully the animals don't ruin it for us...
Also, CONGRATS to the Rangers. Nothing should be taken away from them, they did a fantastic job and they are now added to my fave non-Giants list. I'll be rooting for them next year behind the Giants. (Still love my Yankees too, though, as NYC was my "other" home for a while.) But really Lee, you shoulda pitched [I]around[/I] Renteria... What a class act to win MVP!
[QUOTE=Matty;218050]But really Lee, you shoulda pitched [I]around[/I] Renteria... [/QUOTE]
Blah...that is ridiculous. You have one of the best fastball pitchers in baseball throwing to a reserve, bottom of the order 35 year old SS who averages 2 home runs a year. I mean, Edgar Renteria is suddenly Babe Ruth or Barry Bonds on steroids?
It was a lucky stroke with a misplaced ball.
He's going to be lucky to even find a roster next season and if he does, he definitely won't be starting.
[QUOTE]Blah...that is ridiculous. You have one of the best fastball pitchers in baseball throwing to a reserve, bottom of the order 35 year old SS who averages 2 home runs a year. I mean, Edgar Renteria is suddenly Babe Ruth or Barry Bonds on steroids?[/QUOTE]
:) No, but Renteria had a hot bat post-season going into this game, Rowan was not hitting as well, and first base was open. The Giants and Renteria were on a whole other level postseason. What they had been doing during regular season didn't touch what was happening in the play-offs and World Series. So I do think this all should have been taken into consideration at that point in the game, and Lee should have taken his chances with Rowan. (As did Molina, per his own tactfully worded interview.)
But we can agree to disagree. :) Nothing can take me off my high right now.
[url=http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5764168]Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson dies - ESPN[/url]
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[QUOTE]Get used to the idea of playoff expansion in 2012. At this point it's not a matter of if it happens, it's what the format will be. The general sense is there would be five teams in each league with the wild card winners playing for the right to face the top seed. That could be a three-game series.[/QUOTE][[URL="http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/extra_bases/2010/11/orlando_after_d.html"]via[/URL]]
A gift to the AL East. If this system was historically in effect, the Red Sox would not have missed the playoffs since 1997. They should name the new playoff system, "We want to see the Yankees and Red Sox in the playoffs every year, Wildcard series." Or the WWTSTYARSITPEY Wildcard Series, for short.
That said, I'm not a fan. It dilutes the value of the regular season even further and the fact that the division winners have to sit idle while waiting for this extra round to unfold could end up being a major disadvantage in a sport where timing is everything.
[url=http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/11/26/madness-derek-jeter-wants-six-years-150-million/]Madness: Derek Jeter wants six years, $150 million[/url]
The guy has lost it. Forget the past. Right now he is a middle of the road, injury prone shortstop and in 6 years he will be lucky to even be playing...
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