"Just like the Yankees"
Whenever someone says that the Red Sox have turned into the Yankees, I'll remember the 7th inning of the 7th game of the 2007 ALCS, when cheap reliever Okajima saved the game, rookie call-up Ellsbury reached second on a hard-hit grounder, and rookie second baseman Pedroia hit a 2-run homer.
Yep, just like the Yankees.
Yep, just like the Yankees.
posted by Josh at
Sunday, October 21, 2007
4 Comments:
Why are you still obsessing over the Yankees, two weeks after they played their last game of the season?
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ed002d, at 11:53 PM
Right, and let's not forget the starting pitcher with the $52M contract (that cost $50M to print); the $17M/year left fielder who got the first RBI; the gimpy right fielder, earning $14.4M this year, who scored and drove in a run; the third baseman who was a $9M SALARY DUMP they swallowed to get Josh Beckett; or the $11M/year catcher who went 3 for 4.
Forget that the late-90s Yankees got key contributions from guys like Luis Sojo, Ramiro Mendoza, Shane Spencer, Ricky Ledee and the hollowed-out shell of Darryl Strawberry. Who cares that in 1998, the year the Yankees won 114 games and the World Series, Derek Jeter, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera and El Duque made a total of 2.5M dollars, which translates to roughly $3.1M 2007 dollars -- about as much as the Red Sox are paying Julian Tavarez.
The Red Sox deserve credit for drafting and scouting well. But the Yankees and the Red Sox both have the wherewithal to (a) take on contracts in exchange for talent and (b) make financial mistakes and cover them up. Perhaps more than this, these teams and their fans seem to share an overwhelming sense of entitlement, which turns off fans who actually need some luck.
Two hits and a save do not make you the Minnesota Twins.
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Jason Hammersla, at 10:33 AM
Didn't say we are the Twins. I said we're not the Yankees.
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Josh, at 2:20 PM
I'm not sure where the idea of entitlement comes from, either.
Dating back to 1997, Fenway attendance has increased every single season.
Compare this record Arizona, where attendance increased by 5000 a game after they won the 2001 World Series, and then fell for three consecutive years, interested dropping off sharply and immediately to the point that they drew significantly fewer fans in 2004 than 2001. Now there were fans who felt entitled to win.
Or Atlanta, where first-round playoff games pretty much never sold out.
Or Cleveland, where they drew fewer than 30,000 fans a game despite a really cool stadium and a really cool team that was in the thick of the pennant race all summer.
Who feels entitled? I'd venture to guess that no one enjoys and appreciates winning like Sox fans do. In the words of the great poets, "Good times never seemed so good."
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Josh, at 2:47 PM
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