Comments on: For the sixth year in a row, the Yankees are the most expensive team in history not to win a World Series. http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/ Media, Baseball, Boston, the Red Sox, Music, Literature, and Mnookins Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:46:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: jterran http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1152 jterran Mon, 09 Oct 2006 14:43:21 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1152 <b>SEEING THE YANKEES LOSE TO TIGERS - PRICELESS.</b> SEEING THE YANKEES LOSE TO TIGERS - PRICELESS.

]]> By: Nordberg http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1146 Nordberg Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:44:07 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1146 One more note: I loved the NY Daily News covers today. Yanks on front, Mets on back. Unfold it and it makes a nice package, IN & OUT. Great photo coices, too. The layout editor who designed it gets a big kudo. http://www.nydailynews.com/front/covers/ One more note:

I loved the NY Daily News covers today.
Yanks on front, Mets on back. Unfold it and it makes a nice package, IN & OUT. Great photo coices, too. The layout editor who designed it gets a big kudo.

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/covers/

]]> By: Nordberg http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1145 Nordberg Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:05:18 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1145 Lots of quick thoughts here: * Since beating the Red Sox in Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS, the Yankees have a 3-10 postseason record. (That is soooooo delicious!) * The Tigers reminded me a lot of the 2005 White Sox. They fumbled down the stretch, but got hot again as doon as the postseason began. * That old addage stands: Good pitching beats good hitting. The thing I kept saying (although admittedly not loudly because the NYY offense IS impressive), is the the NYY pitching was not good enough to carry them far. Period. Paragraph. * And because NYY (and Boston, too) has little to expect from the farm in the way of pitching that will help them next year, and because there isn't much available that will come cheaply via free-agency, don't be surprised if this happens again. This isn't Torre's fault. But he might have to take the fall. By the way, Seth, disappointed you haven't weight in on the Foley-Hastert scandal. (But maybe that's smarter.) Lots of quick thoughts here:

* Since beating the Red Sox in Game 3 of the 2004 ALCS, the Yankees have a 3-10 postseason record. (That is soooooo delicious!)

* The Tigers reminded me a lot of the 2005 White Sox. They fumbled down the stretch, but got hot again as doon as the postseason began.

* That old addage stands: Good pitching beats good hitting. The thing I kept saying (although admittedly not loudly because the NYY offense IS impressive), is the the NYY pitching was not good enough to carry them far. Period. Paragraph.

* And because NYY (and Boston, too) has little to expect from the farm in the way of pitching that will help them next year, and because there isn’t much available that will come cheaply via free-agency, don’t be surprised if this happens again.

This isn’t Torre’s fault. But he might have to take the fall.

By the way, Seth, disappointed you haven’t weight in on the Foley-Hastert scandal. (But maybe that’s smarter.)

]]> By: HFXBOB http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1143 HFXBOB Sun, 08 Oct 2006 14:14:45 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1143 Baseball is an amazing game. The Tigers finish the season blowing the division against the worst team in the league, then follow that up by stunning the world. All the talk about the Yankees focussed on their great batting lineup, but overlooked was the fact that their pitching staff, especially the starters, was well short of great. Wang was solid but Johnson, Mussina and Wright all showed serious signs of shakiness during the season. The Yankees starting rotation has been weak since 2004 and Steinbrenner/Cashman haven't been able to fix it. They thought they could get around it by adding more offence but the old principle, pitching beats hitting, never changes. Sox fans learned that a long time ago. Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS goes down as the dagger to the destiny of A-Rod. If the Sox don't score in that ninth inning, Yankees sweep, almost certainly win World Series, A-Rod has pretty good looking post season numbers and a ring. Since that game, well those astonishingly bad numbers are being recited everywhere today. Those were some nice sentiments Steve Lyons had about how A-Rod should be back with the Yankees next year, but he was wrong. The man with the monster contract and monster stats should be in his fourth uniform next year. Baseball is an amazing game. The Tigers finish the season blowing the division against the worst team in the league, then follow that up by stunning the world. All the talk about the Yankees focussed on their great batting lineup, but overlooked was the fact that their pitching staff, especially the starters, was well short of great. Wang was solid but Johnson, Mussina and Wright all showed serious signs of shakiness during the season. The Yankees starting rotation has been weak since 2004 and Steinbrenner/Cashman haven’t been able to fix it. They thought they could get around it by adding more offence but the old principle, pitching beats hitting, never changes.
Sox fans learned that a long time ago.

Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS goes down as the dagger to the destiny of A-Rod. If the Sox don’t score in that ninth inning, Yankees sweep, almost certainly win World Series, A-Rod has pretty good looking post season numbers and a ring. Since that game, well those astonishingly bad numbers are being recited everywhere today. Those were some nice sentiments Steve Lyons had about how A-Rod should be back with the Yankees next year, but he was wrong. The man with the monster contract and monster stats should be in his fourth uniform next year.

]]> By: Mr. Furious http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1142 Mr. Furious Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:58:38 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1142 As a Sox transplant here in Michigan, I am having a blast going along for the ride. Following along on the previous comment, (with your indulgence, Seth) I'd like to offer a link to my thoughts on this Series... <a href="http://misterfurious.blogspot.com/2006/10/and-whoevers-playing-yankees.html" rel="nofollow">"...And Whoever's Playing the Yankees"</a> Adíos, Yankees! Go Tigers! As a Sox transplant here in Michigan, I am having a blast going along for the ride. Following along on the previous comment, (with your indulgence, Seth) I’d like to offer a link to my thoughts on this Series…

“…And Whoever’s Playing the Yankees”

Adíos, Yankees! Go Tigers!

]]> By: mtalinm http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1141 mtalinm Sun, 08 Oct 2006 03:25:53 +0000 http://www.sethmnookin.com/blog/2006/10/07/for-the-sixth-year-in-a-row-the-yankees-are-the-most-expensive-team-in-history-not-to-win-a-world-series/#comment-1141 you just gotta love the Wild Card: got us into the playoffs in 2004 to win it all... got us back in last year as well this year, gets the Tigers into the postseason so they can take a good whack at the Yankees. seeing Rogers' shutout yesterday afternoon was almost as good as winning it ourselves! (shallow, I know, but I'll take what I can get at this point :) you just gotta love the Wild Card:

got us into the playoffs in 2004 to win it all…

got us back in last year as well

this year, gets the Tigers into the postseason so they can take a good whack at the Yankees. seeing Rogers’ shutout yesterday afternoon was almost as good as winning it ourselves!

(shallow, I know, but I’ll take what I can get at this point :)

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