These overpaid pathetic losers just lost the effing ALDS, 2006
What a joke. A f***ing embarrassment. 200 million dollar payroll to go 20 innings without scoring a run. To completely and totally fold for three straight games against a team that lost over 100 games three years ago. This mighty line up of all stars, the greatest team in history, totally shut down by a post season joke camera beating 40-something year old and a guy who almost lost 20 games a couple of years ago. And to make it worse, I had to listen to Jon Miller and Joe Morgan, two guys who wear three piece suits with pocket squares who think the 4 hours is about them. And to make it EVEN worse, they rolled out some corps the other day and talked about things that happened in 1918 instead of calling the f***ing game.
I don’t care so much that this team lost. Losing in the post season comes with having a team good enough to make it to the playoffs. But I am more frustrated this year than I can ever remember being.
1995. Great post season and classic game against Seattle.
1996. Stunning Yankees victory.
1997. Still hung over from 1996 so I don’t care so much when they lose against Cleveland. The Indians go on to blow a late inning victory against the Marlins.
1998-2000. All Yankee wins.
2001. The Series against the Diamondbacks was one of the greatest sequence of games I have ever seen. I remember pacing in my apartment in David Square waiting to call my friends when Rivera threw the ball away to second. The late inning come backs against BK made losing less painful.
2002. They lost against the Angels but at the time it felt like a fluke.
2003. The excitement of the Grady Little Pedro Martinez game 7 Yankee win made the World Series a non event.
2004. Bad year.
2005. Another early exit against the Angels.
2006. The most frustrating I can remember.
The reason this year is so bad is because of payroll. It’s bad enough to have Red Sox yahoos sound off on the salary thing when the Yankees WIN. It is unbearable when they lose. In 1996, the Yankees opening day payroll was 52 mil. And it went up but still remained under 100 million through the 2000 season. They were still winning championships. But from 2001 (112M) to 2005 (208M) it doubled while the Yankees did not win a single World Series. This year, 2006, opening day payroll was 194 million and it went above 200 million by the time the season was over.
Even I, a diehard Yankee fan, am starting to get fed up with the huge payroll. The Yankees need to spend more money in the farm system, hiring great coaches to work with their young players, spend on great scouts and build young talent. If they keep buying All Star teams, I’m not sure if they are going to win any time soon.
If the Yankees actually played great ball, hit well, played good defense, pitched perfectly, and still lost, then so be it. The Tigers do have a good young team. But the Yanks were swinging at first pitches (39 pitches to get through 5 INNINGS??? What the …???!!! The pitcher should throw 39 pitches to get through the line up ONCE), they played terrible defense and the pitching was what we all knew it would be – suspect.
Anyway, I am now rooting for the Tigers. I still hold firm to the belief that I want the team that beat my team to go on and win it all. Then I could say we lost to the best.
Ugh. What a fiasco this post season turned out to be. Torre is going to lose his job, they are going to let Sheffield go to the Red Sox and ARod MUST go. That fool sealed his own fate by going 1-240 this post season with a .0000301 batting average. And please take Randy Johnson out to pasture and either shoot him or let him stud. His days are over. Mussina, it was nice knowing you. Glad you helped out. Bernie, yesterday was not your fault. Torre should have known better. You will be back some day as a coach.
I’ll write more on another day after I get to read through the NY papers. I can’t wait to hear what the Daily News and Post have to say. If the Mets were not still in it, the Yankees would get beat like an Iraqi prisoner.
Later.