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Originally posted by Carl Childress
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Originally posted by Rich Fronheiser
With a true salary cap like one that now exists in every other major professional sports in the United States, the Yankees would be a second division team EVERY YEAR.
Is Cashman a great GM? Who the heck knows? Someone with a team that has THAT track record and there are whispers from Phillies fans and writers that maybe Cashman wouldn't be a good choice for the vacancy.
Is Torre a good manager? Again, who knows? His pre-Yankees teams had a .471 winning percentage. Did he magically become the sage everyone seems to think he is? (Put Phil Jackson of the Bulls in the same category.)
The thing that always drives me nuts are the "national" fans -- the ones who have never even seen a Yankees game in person, live somewhere like South Texas, and are diehard fans of the team. Would these people be fans of the team if it didn't buy pennants every other season? How many closet Philadelphia Phillies fans are there in South Texas? (And let's put the Dallas Cowboys in the same category while we're at it)
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Two points:
(1) Unless you're psychic, how can you know that the Yankees would always be second division with a salary cap?
(2) I lived in New York City in 1957, when you could get into the grandstands for 75 cents. I imagine I've seen more Yankee games than you have seen major league baseball.
One thing I know: There are always poor souls around, like you, who can't stand that someone else wins.
Concerning your knock of the Cowboys: You live in Wisconsin. Super Bowls: Green Bay won the first two - but nothing since. Minnesota (near you) lost four. Tennessee never won. Seattle never went. Pittsburg won four, the last one in 1980. Oh, the last time they went, they lost to - gasp - Dallas.
Dallas won five (tied for most): 72, 78, 93, 94, 96.
Do you dislike Dallas because:
(a) they win and your teams don't?
(b) they're in Texas?
(c) they're the world's favorite football team (based on sales of NFL products)?
(d) all of the above?
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I've only found one article talking about team sales, and it suggests the Raiders are #1, which is equally ludicrous:
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfranci...10/story2.html
Dallas hasn't won a playoff game in 10 seasons. But most of the people who follow "America's Team" are people who latched on in the 1970s or the 1990s when the Cowboys were winning. I've talked to Cowboys fans who have never been to Texas, have never been to a game, etc. I HATE fair-weather, band-wagon fans. It's easy to be a fan when the team wins.
You lived in New York (which I didn't know), so enjoy your Yankees. It has nothing to do with Texas, Carl -- I am rooting for the Astros to win it all.
And I live in Wisconsin, but I've been an Eagles fan since I've been walking. I grew up in PA. I could send you a cheesehead, though, if you are interested.
--Rich