it will be fun to see who you go out and buy this offseason to go for your WS number 28*. Also, i hope you guys realize that once a cap is installed, no one will take your world titles seriously.

I quit doing that back in the late 70's, when they introduced checkbook baseball into what was the greatest game on the planet. That's ok - when we trot out our team of young studs, watch NYY start drooling.

Rrrrrrrrrrraptorman

They may drool but they will be looking to sign them away as soon as free agency comes up. Let's face it as long as there is a joke of a salary cap the Yankees will continue to trot an all-star team day in day out. Baseball needs a real salary cap like baskeball. Then we'll see how good the Yanks are.

Realistically given what they spend on their roster anything less than a W/C should be considered a failure.

SCREW THE YANKEES!
On paper they should win the World Series every year.
MATSUI IS GOING TO THE A'S!

GODZILLA IS COMING TO OAKLAND!

Love,

BLUE OYSTER CULT

(oh $$hit....... that band is from New York!)

AROID wants his "Soft White Underbelly" rubbed while Jeter rubs a peacock feather upon his pink bubblegum lips.

I'm gonna puke.

As long as MLB has a Commissioner like Bud Selig, this nonsense of rich teams getting richer will only continue. As a New Yorker, I was watching all their fans whooping it up during the parade. I then got a thought of a Monty Python sketch where a boxer climbed into a ring and beat his opponent, a 10 year old girl.

The real story wasn't the Yankees winning, after spending a quarter of a billion dollars on just 3 players, what other outcome could there be? The real story would have been if they hadn't won (like in 2003 with the roster that they had). Watching a team like the Yankees steamroll over opponents was as exciting (ho-hum) and unpredictable (not) as watching a professional wrestling match.

If an owner is to continue running this game, then there should be a panel of three: one representing the owner, the players and the umpires ( which is unrealistic anyway).

Bud just wants to collect $$$$ (granted every businessman wants to)and the interests of the fans is secondary. He just wants to leave behind some legacy, like contracting teams, when he finally retires.

Regrettably, I don't see a solution in the foreseeable future.

As an A's fan, and more importantly, a baseball fan, I would offer my congratulations to Matsui, Gerardi, and maybe only a handful more.

But it's difficult to congratulate a team that in general, resembles a team filled with "ringers" or better yet "mercinaries"

Here's something interesting--

For those who think Arod is a class act....

I know a high ranking NYPD official (Captain) who worked the ticker tape parade and festivities at City Hall in NYC.

The Yankees met at the Stadium this morning and rode down to lower Manhattan (with family and other team officials) aboard 23 buses.

At the conclusion of the cermonies, the players were ushered back aboard the buses to return to the Stadium (possibly to start cleaning out their lockers, or just getting their cars). Arod walked with a pretty brunette (as described by the NYPD Capt) in the opposite direction, away from the buses. When the Capt asked him to stop and turn around ( to help keep control of the crowd), Arod had the nerve to request a Police car to take him to a neighborhood north of City Hall, SoHo (miles, upon miles short of the Stadium). Even officials representing Yankee Security were dumfounded by Arod's request (one calling him an a-h0le).

Here's a guy making $20+ million (or whatever the amount) demanding a Police car to take him somewhere. I guess he doesn't carry bills smaller that $1000 to ride a NYC cab.

Over the past few seasons, I have started losing respect for him (slapping the ball out of a pitcher's hand in the 2004 ALCS, distracting a Jays infielder causing him to drop an infield pop-up, and his constant whining if pitcher throws inside on him as he crowds the plate). Then there was the lying earlier this year about his cousin and the HGH.

Maybe he should look to his left when he's at third base and emulate a player with a a heck of a lot more class, Jeter.

I don't have any particular hatred for the Yanks. I'd rather have them win than the Red Sox. I respect them as an organization in that they expect professionalism from their players. But I don't respect the way they buy their talent.

But like you said there probably isn't going to be any changes anytime soon. Maybe baseball fans across the country should start boycotting whenever the Yanks come to town. That would send a message that without the rest of the league the Yanks would have nothing. But of course all the fair weather Yanks fans across the country will show up to claim allegiance even though the only reason they root for the Yanks is because they win. No sense of fair play...

As for A-Rod. I can almost see his point though. It's not the money factor. I think the true Yankee fans can be too fanatical and hold their players to god standards and would probably not let me get by in a cab much like Princess Di's unfortunate last escape attempt.

I remember a few years ago when Kansas City Royals fans would attend a Royals-Yankees game and as a form of protest, stand and turn their backs to the Yankees while batting. While this would be conceived as a highly visible and dignified form of protesting, it would lead to a big risk of getting hit by a line drive hit into the stands (OUCH!).

You're right about fair weather fans. Not so long ago, seemingly everyone was a Chicago Bulls fan (wearing their memorabilia), and I wonder how many of these Yankee "fans" actually wore their jerseys and caps during the Stump Merrill, Ron Kittle, Wayne Tollison, Butch Wynegar days (let alone remember more than a handful of names from the mid 1980's to the early '90's roster). BTW, George Costanza doesn't count.

Well, they haven't won the WS since 2000,so for all the money they spent, they shouldn't be jumping up and down too much. I think we've done much better, for a fraction of the cost.

Rrrrrrrrrrraptorman

I like that form of protest. The only possible improvement would be to mass-moon the Yankmees when they're up. Of course, ther are some occupational hazards involved,but I'd do it

2009 World Champions of baseball...New York Yankees!!

5 WS Championships in 14 years.

Eat it, Oakland!!

I'm not going to sit here and complain about salary caps and monopolizing. I'm just going to tell you that I don't like the yanks because your not bigger than the game itself. It's gross. I ate it and barfed! Hope you guys can live with ruining the game.

It takes money to make money, and the Steinbrenners realize that. They are also smart enough businessmen to know that baseball is supposed to be entertainment. Nobody has the right to tell anyone on how to spend THEIR own money.