From the frequently ridiculous Jeff Pearlman:
This offseason, the Yankees purchased the two best pitchers on the market (C.C. Sabathia and A.J. Burnett), then went out and bought Mark Texiera, the in-his-prime, top-of-the-league first baseman superdooper stud. In other words, how can anyone with a human head actually attend, say, a Yankees-Royals or Yankees-Orioles or Yankees-Rays or Yankees-A’s or Yankees-Mariners or Yankees-Rangers or Yankees-Twins or Yankees-Anybody Except The Red Sox or Mets game and truly, strongly, lovingly, audibly root for the Yankees to win?
Really, it makes no emotional sense……
You go to pick up your kid at school. There’s a fight in the playground. The bully lives next door to you. You like his parents, have attended BBQs at their house, remember when he was just a baby. However, now he’s a snarling 6-foot monster. His opponent is Richie Cunningham, the early high school years. Do you root for the thug, just because he’s familiar? Just because, once upon a time, he was likable?
Hells no.
If I’m a Yankee fan, I’m bored and unamused. Wow. Oh, wow. We won a game. With A-Rod at third, Jeter at short, Cano at second and Tex at first. Amazing. Whooie! Hee-haw. Zzzz.
Firstly, apparently most Yankees fans do not agree with Pearlman, seeing how the team leads the league in attendance on a regular basis. The fans are enthralled and amused, as they shell out plenty of their hard fought cash to watch the team play. I am not sure where Pearlman gets off telling Yankees fans that they should not be enjoying their team’s success.
Secondly, this is just trite bellyaching from a writer who reveled in the Yankees failures of 2008, and picked them to finish 3rd in 2009 because “Penny and Smoltz could easily win more games than Sabathia and Burnett.” Every time the Yankees spend on a free agent, we are told that we are not allowed to enjoy it, yet we have to sit through mockery and derision should the player fail. Where was this article last year, when the Yankees had the same bloated payroll? Oh, right, the Yankees missed the playoffs, so we were allowed to root for them.
Finally, I root for the underdog Green Bay Packers and the big bad Yankees, and I can tell you that neither provides a more satisfying fan experience than the other. I enjoy watching a team play the sport well, and rarely think of economics when watching a game. Does anyone really watch a game winning homer from A-Rod and think, “Eh, not so exciting, he makes a lot of money?” I highly doubt it.
The Yankees are 76-45. Amazing!!! Whooie!!! I do not know about you, but I am anything but bored and unamused.
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Great stuff, Mo! What a hypocritical buttfaced loon. How can he possibly pick the Yankees to finish 3rd in the AL East, yet now claim that victory has been a fait accompli since they acquired the 3 free agents? It’s amazing that someone that dumb can actually use a keyboard well enough to make actual words appear.
Great Great article. It appears the Pearlmann (who claims he is a Yankee fan) and Mike Lupica are on the same page when it comes to Yankee brass. In fact last month I had a small debate on Lohud regarding another Mike Lupica rip job on the Yankees GM and ownership during the Omar Minaya fiasco. Here is what I posted.
“This was definitely another negative shot at Cash. I find it funny how this is Cash first year under his new contract and now that he has complete autonomy and he has stated he wants to make the farm a big priority he still gets knocked. Well compared to Omar, coincidentally Mike Lupica handles with kid gloves, he has done just that. I’ve never seen Lupica ever rip Omar. There were 6 articles covering Omar’s reign of terribleness but not one by Lupica. Maybe Lupica should stick to politics. Maybe with the Yankees it is all about Politics. It is apparent that Lupica leans towards the left with his political views which is fine. Mike Lupica is a leftist radical liberal in the same circle as Keith Olbermann and Bill Mair who craves the chance to share his political views with his readers and makes sure they know the college he attended (coincidentally which honers socialist thinking) and his views on baseball politics. Well according to him the big bad Yankees are evil for baseball. Mike, “Baseball is capitalism”. One day there will be a salary cap fitting the socialist brand of baseball that Lupica desires. But until than he should be a bit more partial and rip the other GM who has completely dropped the ball and has shown nothing to deserve not being fired after this season. Perhaps he won’t do that because that ownership and GM lean towards the left as well. Maybe he is not fair and balanced!”
well a fellow blogger debated with me and stated:
“Ah, Salary Caps are more Capitalism which is for big corporations and not the employee which is more in line with the Republican’s.
Lupica is trying to find a base. He appeals to the anti-Yankees (Mets) and he riles enough Yankees that they rip him. In his line of work both cases are good business.”
To which I replied:
Now I must completely disagree with your comment. Without getting into politics, please understand the real message about capitalism and socialism and do not be blinded by the big money hungry corporations and the radical leftist thinking folk that love to spend everyone else money. Capitalism is all about companies big and small making a profit. The Dolan’s whom happen to be far left attempted to monopolize cable TV by pushing out Verizon. That does not make them Republican’s or Conservatives. Cablevision attempted to get the government to block Verizon from competing with them. This is a form of fascism. When talking about baseball we are talking about millionaires on both ends, players and owners. Socialism is about parity. Keeping everyone equal and having big government determine how much they can make while big government profits. A salary cap is exactly that as the players would be capped and the big owners would be like the government. That is not Capitalism. Capitalism has no caps. It’s about no caps and a free market to determine what and how much you want to spend. You will have cheap owners refusing to spend under capitalism but those owners will not compete with the Yankees. Capitalism is also not about monopolizing, it is about free Markets! Capitalism is not about capping what employers make, ex; Mark Texiera can go to a team that is willing pay him more (AKA the Yankees)!
Lupica is wrong anyway you spin it! And Pearlmann seems to be apologizing for the Yankee’s winning. Isn’t it funny how noone seems to commend the Yankees logic. Recently an ex Red Sox pitcher by the name of Bronson Aroyo stated “the only Owner in baseball that cares more about winning than making a profit and is willing to put back everything he earns into the team on the field is the Steinbrenners”. It’s too bad that more people with common sense do not understand this!
great article, keep it up!
Forget about Lupica’s politics. These are terrible times for him. I was waiting for him to rip Minaya about his colleague Adam Rubin…silence. It kills him to see the Yankees successful and the Mets out of it. It kills him to not have George as his punching bag anymore.
Signing free agents doesn’t always mean winning. The Yankees in the 80′s a perfect example. The Baltmore Orioles in the late 90′s.
Salary caps are the most ridiculous things in sports. If a team can’t compete they should fold. Contraction means better quality of play anyway.
I live in Houston as I have said before and it infuriating for Astros fans because the owner will not spend money because he knows the stadium is going to fill up whether they win or not… It’s a shame, they put making money over winning and when you win you make money.
OH MY GOD THE YANKEES NEEDED A PITCHER AND A FIRSTBASEMAN SO THEY SIGN TWO PITCHERS AND A FIRSTBASEMAN THAT MEANS THEY WILL WIN THE WORLD SERIES EVERY OTHER TEAM SHOULD QUIT IT’S NOT FAIR QQ CRY CRY I HATE LIFE What BS this guy is.
Spoken like a true Yankee hater. If Perlman’s really a fan, he’s a self-loathing fan.