Yankees' Bank Finally Defeats the System

We're all tired of talking about NY payroll, but it stifles baseball hope

By Will McCahill, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 5, 2009 10:12 PM CST

(Newser) – Yes, writing about the New York Yankees’ ginormous payroll is “like writing about the heat in Phoenix. We all know it’s there, and we don’t really want to talk about it anymore,” Joe Ponanski says in what he admits is a “screed.” And though baseball’s playoffs are designed to add volatility, when you can spend $52 million more than the next-biggest spender, you’re eventually going to buy a(nother) World Series.

“That team that spent $50 million more than any other team, that team with three sure Hall of Famers and as many as four others, that team that bought Milwaukee’s best pitcher and Anaheim’s best hitter and Toronto’s No. 2 starter and Boston’s favorite Idiot and the most expensive player in the history of baseball and so on,” the SI.com columnist adds in his personal blog. “And then, if you are a not a Yankees fan, you will want to throw up. If you are not a Yankees fan, you are left hoping that next year the randomness of a short playoff series will get the Yankees and allow some other team to win so we can celebrate the hope of Opening Day. And that’s baseball.”

CC Sabathia celebrates the New York Yankees' championship last night. (AP Photo)

Hideki Matsui, of the 2009 World Series-champion New York Yankees, carries the World Series trophy onto the set of "Late Show with David Letterman" tonight. (AP Photo)

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AClotfelter

Nov 8, 2009 8:53 AM CST

Sorry, partial, but Chitrix has a point...

partialobserver

Nov 6, 2009 12:23 PM CST

So jay makes a perfectly reasonable comment and gets buried in thumb-downs, but chitrix makes a completely condescending and really unnecessary comment and people love it. I may not agree with a lot of what is said from jay's camp on this site, but the double standards held by left-leaning users of this site gets old.

Jeebus

Nov 6, 2009 6:25 AM CST

Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Bill Gates to win the power ball lottery, it's just god damn sickening.

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