Are you implying that someone interviewing
POSADA about
HIS World Series
win and
experiences should mention other teams and ask him about them? What exactly are you getting at?
And to everyone who rants about money, I have one question:
Are you a communist?
If you're answer is no, guess what: TOO BAD!!!!
WE, the Yankees' Fans, PAY a lot of money to this organization through ticket sales, concessions, gear, memorablia, etc... Good for us for having an ownership family which turns a lot of that money right back to us, by building the best team possible.
If you are happy with your ownership keeping the money and getting cheap players (see Kansas City for a big example...), then that's your problem!
I would be PISSSED if next year the Steinbrenners changed thier mission to one of "Profits first, quality second".
That money comes from the fans and we got it back 27 times! No shame there baby! We gave him enough money to buy us one next year, and he better do his best to do it again!!!
Look WAY BACK to the last time one of your teams won the WS and ask yourself, "did I get in my car at 12am and drive up and down the main streets of my town waving flags, beeping my horn, and cheering with tons of other people, even though I had to wake up for work in 5 hours?" Well I did last night! and this diehard fan is happy as hell that his owners pay him back for it!!!
Not sure if this was intended toward my comment above but that was in reply to the other statement saying you could not buy a World Series win (good team) and I disagreed with that to some degree. You can buy the best players if you have the money and anyone that thinks a team of the best players has no advantage is wrong IMO.
You say good for you that your fans can support a winning team by hiring the best players in baseball for your team. Thing there is NY is a BIG city with a huge population, big enough there are often 2 teams locally. Some cities have none. I know fans in north NJ are generally NY sports fans and south NJ are generally Philly fans. Even there the population in north NJ is way larger than SJ. So yes, you have one of the biggest fan populations and the money goes into your team and you build good teams. No argument there but that was the point I guess.
Notice for example Pittsburgh (Pirates) are #60, NY is #1. Can't help but see a trend with some of the ones on the top. Some cities probably put more into one sport than another like Pittsburgh. NJ devils? Really a NY team.
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