HOW is it POSSIBLE the YANKEES lost?

[dolo amber]

:o

They have more MONEY that anyone!! That's the only way they ever WIN, y'see? I'm so confused!!

Please, all you people who constantly rag on the Yankees due to their budget: Explain this to me. Or otherwise NEVER. MAKE. THAT. ARGUMENT. AGAIN. :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[Oeditpus Rex]

1. Because it's a round ball and a round bat

And all the money on the planet can't change that.

[Sanity Claws]

2. ARod is overrated and Randy Johnson is over the hill

Both are highly paid and not worth it.

[qnr]

3. They don't expect Yankee haters to be consistent, do you? n/t

[qnr]

27. ^--- Obviously, I had two thoughts running through what passes for a mind

simultaneously. "They" ???

[GOPisEvil]

4. It's not the money you spend, it's on whom it is spent.

[ComerPerro]

34. Usually it is the money you spend

The Yanks need a new manager

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Tigers played better ball than the Yankees????

:shrug:

Ilove when a Midwestern team does well in baseball playoffs. D)

Just wish it could have been the beleaguered Cubs. :cry:

[driver8]

40. The Tigers definitely hit the ball better than the Yankees.

I love nothing more than to watch the Yankees get beat. Even better, I love to watch them get their asses kicked.

Saturday was a sweet, sweet day.

All of those high paid "superstars" sitting their watching their team go down...and not a damned thing they could do about it.

Buh Bye, Yankees!! See you next year!!

[Susang]

6. Go Tigers!

Roooaaaaaarrrrr! :P

[bigwillq]

7. They lost because they have no balls.

And because Detroit's pitching was better.

It has nothing to do with money.
It's what you do on the field.

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. As my father says, Good pitching beats good hitting any day of the week.

He's a baseball fan since the days before the Braves played in Atlanta. As a little boy he would stand at the stadium fence with his autograph book stuffed through the slats...never knowing who would walk down, the clacking of their cleats thrilling, stop and sign his book. That was how he got the great Hank Aaron's autograph when he was just a boy himself.

I tend to agree with him. Zoom Zoom lit a fire the other night that Rogers and Bonderman relayed on.

[bigwillq]

9. I have to agree with him.

:)

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. I STILL think of that team as the Milwaukee Braves....

:hi:

But I still think the DC team should be called the Senators. And are they now not the Brewers??? :eyes:

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Hehehe... My father was angry the day the Braves left...and madder

still when the Senators came to town as the Brewers...playing in the *gasp* American League... It took him a long time to come around. And then they left the AL. :D :hi:

[Sanity Claws]

26. DC team is the Nationals

and they play in the National League. The old Senators were an American League team.
My dear, we're showing our age.

[TheMightyFavog]

29. The Brewers weren't ther Senators, they were the Seattle Pilots.

End of Line.

[CatholicEdHead]

43. Washington Senators are now the Minnesota Twins

Not sure how the Brewers started.

[JackDragna]

37. Bah. I hate the old "defense is everything" arguments..

..people break out about baseball. If good pitching beat good hitting consistently, the Twins wouldn't have gotten whipped like dogs. Balance is critical and the Yankees didn't have it.

[ScreamingMeemie]

42. Good pitching (i.e. strikeouts) cannot be beat. Hate the truth all

you wish.

[Blue-Jay]

10. Because Wankies fans suck.

That's how.

[bigwillq]

11. Excuse me?

WTF? :wtf:

[Blue-Jay]

16. Don't mind me. I was just teasing Dolo.

[ComerPerro]

31. its true. Yankees fans do suck

Its the easiest thing in the world to be a Yankees fan.


Except for maybe on days like today, when you get your ass handed to you by some midwest team...

[dolo amber]

13. That has something to do with something, I'm sure

:eyes:

Blow it out your sax. :grr:

[Blue-Jay]

19. I invested many dollars with Enron. Why am I broke?

:shrug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

15. I'm going to have to disagree. If that were so than Tigers fans

suck worse. I wanted the Tigers to win...but last week their fans made me sick to my stomach. They got up in the sixth inning and started walking out...then in the 9th, they left in droves. This is a city where the majority of the fans are only fans when their team is winning. I yelled at a 60 (ish) year old man last week as we were leaving after they lost. He was saying they didn't deserve a thing in the post season. I told him that this was a team that wasn't picked to come in any higher than 4th in their division, and that even if their post season ended in a sweep by the Yankees...he should be proud of them. I then predicted that they would beat the Yankees. He then told me to "fuck off". That's how "great" a lot of Tigers fans are.

[Blue-Jay]

20. Yeah, that post was too long for me to actually read.

I guess that shows what kind of attention span I HEY LOOK! SOMETHING SHINY!

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. In a nutshell, a lot of Tigers fans are shitheads. All or nothing for them

[ComerPerro]

33. I could say the same thing about Yankees fans

since they don't know what its like to back a losing team.

They honestly don't.

When you back a loser for so long, things like leaving in the sixth to beat traffic are normal. I'm not saying its right, but its expected.

More often, they are leaving because it really hurts to watch your team get completely owned. Add that to being accustomed to disappointment, and no wonder they wanted to leave.

Hell, I was nervous as hell last year during the playoffs and World Series, all the way up to the very last out of game four.

I kept thinking, "Fuck, this is when the Sox blow it", because I am so used to that happening.

[driver8]

39. You are right -- it sucks to watch your team get beat. Yankees' fans

haven't had to show much loyalty in the past...their team is always in the thick of things. What about when they start having years when they don't make the playoffs?? How loyal will they be, then? It's kind of like the Chicago Bulls' fans of the nineties -- every other kid I saw had a Bulls' jersey or hat or jacket. How many of those do you see now??

[ComerPerro]

44. The owners of the Bulls pissed off Chicago

its not that the Bulls fans (in Chicago) were fairweather fans.

In one year, the owners let the coach and a very large majority of the championship teams go. Then, when people stopped going to games in protest, they had the audacity to start airing radio ads calling everyone "fair weather fans". After they unloaded their talent, got cheaper players, and apparently pocketed the difference (cause ticket prices sure as hell didn't go down. Who wants to pay $80 or more to see a shadow of a once great team?)

[ScreamingMeemie]

41. Then leave the tickets for me and my daughter to buy.

Don't say you've been a diehard fan your whole life, and then leave. :hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

22. Pssschaaaw....

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

[NNadir]

14. They must have gotten a call from Donald Rumsfeld. Cakewalk.

Everybody was saying it would be a cakewalk.

[Zavulon]

18. Correct. The Yankees would be greeted as liberators in Detroit.

Funny thing, though - it didn't happen. ;)

[NNadir]

23. It was surprising that the citizens of Detroit weren't strewing flowers.

That was probably the biggest surprise of the series.

[Zavulon]

24. Well, we can expect Joe Torre to land on an aircraft carrier and

declare that major operations are over. ;)

[NNadir]

25. Mission accomplished.

[Reverend_Smitty]

28. I've always said...Money can't buy chemistry

On paper the 06 Yankees are much better than the 96 Yankees, they don't have enough (any?) players like Paul O'Neil who are role players that win the rings

[jobycom]

30. Blame it on Texas

We gave you guys A-Rod. It was a dirty trick. We did know what we were doing.

[Blue_Tires]

32. it all happened in that Seinfeld episode

GEORGE: "Attention Steinbrenner and front-office morons! Your triumphs mean nothing. You all stink. You can sit on it, and rotate! This is George Costanza. I fear no reprisal. Extension five-one-seven-oh."

[mvd]

35. Well, I thought they would win

But all my series picks have not gone well. I just think Detroit's pitching rose to the occasion, and Yankee hitters like A-Rod came up small.

[JackDragna]

36. Answers.

Well, only one, really..

1. Baseball is an incredibly competitive sport, possibly moreso than any other of the major leagues. I know the NFL has good partiy, but I think it may even be easier for NFL teams to keep a decent team year after year. The Yankees have spent a lot of money, but they've tended to spend it on win-now, aged talent. The problem with those people is now just how they break down, but their lack of zeal to win. Like the White Sox last year, the Tigers wanted it more.

[Mendocino]

38. Heck of a job Torre

said King George.

And there is joy in Mudville tonight, because the mighty Yankees are out.

[matcom]

45. because we Red Sox fans got together in every bar in New England

and held a massive Yankees Suck Mind-Meld.

blame us ;)