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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 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.
It is rare in professional sports for a coach to become a bigger star than any of the players he coaches. Indeed, it is arguable that only Vince Lombardi achieved such stardom as coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967. But it is rarer still for an owner to become a bigger… Read more.
Last night, in the house that Jeter built, the New York Yankees won a long-awaited berth into the World Series by defeating the Los Angeles Angels 5-2 to win the American League Championship Series, four games to two. Of course, any team would be happy to brag about winning 40 league pennants and 26 World Series championships – as the… Read more.
