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The Yankees have spent 17 years proving that money can’t buy championships, though the Steinbrenners seem determined to keep testing that theory. After another humiliating playoff sweep, even my schadenfreude has given way to pity. iPINIONS laments that baseball’s richest perennial losers have stopped being funny and started being pathetic. See my full take on… Read more.
A racist incident blew up at Yankee Stadium on Saturday between Josh Donaldson of the Yankees and Tim Anderson of the White Sox. It threw into stark relief why football has replaced baseball as America’s favorite pastime. Not to mention the perfectly compelling reasons I provided recently in “Another Baseball Lockout as Pecan Pie Dethrones… 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.
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.
After months of suspense, Major League Baseball finally announced yesterday that Alex Rodriquez (aka A-Rod) is headlining a list of 13 players being suspended for violating the league’s drug policy. They were all ensnared by their illicit association with Biogenesis – a steroids lab in Miami masquerading as an anti-aging clinic. All of the players… Read more.
Last night the New York Yankees (with a team payroll of almost $200 million) showed themselves, once again, to be the biggest and most expensive losers in the history of professional sports. Specifically, they failed in their quest to win another World Series in humiliating fashion when the Detroit Tigers (with a team payroll of less… Read more.
