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Even with one of baseball’s highest payrolls, the Yankees once again proved that money can’t buy October glory. Sixteen years without a championship, Gerrit Cole’s $324 million still yielding nothing, and now the Blue Jays have joined the long list of teams exposing New York’s gilded mediocrity. iPINIONS can probably do no better than quote… Read more.
The Oklahoma City Thunder just won their first NBA Championship — and barely anyone noticed. iPINIONS breaks down how the league’s Moneyball era delivered competitive balance but lost the cultural spark that made NBA Finals must-see TV. Read more on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/thunder-win-first-nba-championship Read more.
Truth be told, this title does not do justice to the groundhog-day nature of what has become the New York Yankees’ fall classic of futility. But you don’t have to be a baseball fan to marvel at this curious thing: Never before in the field of professional sports has a team paid so much to… Read more.
With unbridled schadenfreude, I ridiculed the Yankees for failing to make it to the World Series again. Most notably, I pointed out the folly of continuing to spend so much for so little. In “October Woes Continue for the Yankees. Time to Play ‘Moneyball,’ October 24, 2019, I quoted the following to highlight this recurring… Read more.
Trust me, you don’t have to like baseball to marvel at this curious thing: never before in the field of professional sports has a team paid so much to win so little. New York’s season-ending defeat to the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series on Saturday means that for the first time since… Read more.
The New York Yankees have replaced the Dallas Cowboys as the “America’s Team” people love to hate. Of course, Yankees fans would be reveling in this hate if their team were still playing the way it did between 1996 and 2000, when the Yankees won four World Series championships. Instead, they’ve played like such losers since… Read more.
On Friday night, the New York Yankees (with a team payroll of $206 million) showed themselves once again to be the biggest and most expensive losers in the history of professional sports. On this occasion, their fabled quest for another World Series title was foiled by the lowly Texas Rangers (with a team payroll of… Read more.
