The Yankees are the Mets
And the Yanks, after all this half-assedry, actually had to nerve to jack ticket prices again. The ghosts of the Boss and the Colonels must be rolling in their graves.
posted by Kalel9 @ 10:07 AM
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Monday, February 23, 2015
And the Yanks, after all this half-assedry, actually had to nerve to jack ticket prices again. The ghosts of the Boss and the Colonels must be rolling in their graves.
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It's better if they implode. It hurts to say it, but it's true.
No hope unless and until Hal sells the team (and even then it depends on who buys).
What we don't know is what are the baseball people saying.
Are they telling Hal/Levine that no one wants to see aging veterans at the expense of young kids with upside, or are they selling the idea that veterans are the way to go?
Whatever advice he his offering, what Cashman said was the truth:
1) No perfect beast
2) No rebuild
3) No trading veterans for prospects at the deadline
It's a cut and paste roster.
That's why they have to implode.
It would force Hal to sit on the fans middle finger.
Someone on NYYFans said it best: The Yankees are a marketing organization, not a baseball team.
They suck at marketing too. Attendance and viewership have been trending down.
The irony is that the A-Rod freak show they claim to hate might change that.
A-Rod is the perfect deflection right now. All eyes on him, while distracting everyone from the awful ownership.
“We made a heckuva offer and it wasn’t good enough,’’ Hal Steinbrenner told The Post Monday morning at George M. Steinbrenner Field.
Go f*** yourself, Hal.
Alvaro Espinoza, Ken Phelps, Games on WPIX in front of 20k or less fans here we come!!!!
This post from NYYFans sums it up perfectly. The difference between what the Yankees were reportedly willing to spend — $27M ($54M total) — to what the Sox actually spent, $31M ($62M total), was a mere $8M difference. In other words, almost entirely meaningless.
"What mattered is that they didn't realize that all of their moves (starting last July 2nd) pointed towards this signing, and that if they did not get it done, it would invalidate the moves to some degree. They can't sign IFA for the next 2 years. By the time they are back, there may be an international draft. They are eschewing big FA signings, meaning they need to build from within.
Holding to a firm line that amounts to a few million dollars difference (a single digit percentage point when it comes to their budget) is meaningless. There's a premium to the asset when you consider that signing him would have also kept him away from a division rival... probably worth millions of dollars on its own. Whoever decided to hold "firm" on the budget made a serious mistake."
While there is a high rate of risk with Moncada, any BUSINESSMAN knows that investing in veterans has similar risks involved. I believe the investing slogan "Past Performance Does NOT Guarantee Future Returns" applies to veterans, specifically FA, as your buying the end of their prime and start of their decline.
While Moncada is risky for the fact that he needs some seasoning in the minors, you're buying his entire PRIME at a cheap cost. God fucking damnit, I'm still so livid over this shit.
Seriously, I hate to say this but I cannot wait to see Moncada rake for the Sox and shove it down Hal's throat.
There is no sensible plan. Throw an absurd amount of money at Ellsbury. Reup Gardner immediately after. Sign Mcann for a pile of dough and block your best farm position. I'm baffled. Its not cheap. Its clueless. A huge ship with no rudder.
From the same NYYFans poster (username Jace):
"There's a big chance he amounts to nothing and another chance that he helps the Sox but not by very much, and nobody cares. But it's more the implications of the non-signing. It shows they don't understand why what they did last July was smart, and thus, it actually wasn't smart, it was semi-blindly striking on a good path."
This is why I stopped posting at larger sites. I don't want to be negative, but the way they have been run since after the 2009 season has spelled trouble:
From the AJack/IPK trade (I thought that was the time to start getting younger with Jeter and A-Rod getting old) to the Montero trade (failing to understand that offense was about to get in short supply) to the throw shit against the wall offseason (Wells, Youk, Hafner).
Fans want to believe they root for a well run team. I understand that, and believe it or not, so do I.
I mean, if someone was negative in 1998, it would have been laughable because of the foundation that Stick and Buck laid.
But they have lost their way, and it has to be faced.
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