Yankees vs Red Sox ALCS
 

I really am keeping my eye on the Skins, but on Tuesday night in NY all hell is about to break loose! :FIREdevil This series will not be for the faint of heart if you're a fan of either team.

Just glad the Yanks closed the deal today, so I can fully enjoy the Skins/Ravens game tommorrow!

I cant freaking wait for the games. I'm going to the series if the Yank's win it. I'm a Cardinals fan myself, but if your a baseball fan, you have to be jakked for this series. I cant wait.

Well I'll be pulling for whoever comes out of the NL to win the World Series.

I don't care for the Red Sox at all, I'll be pulling for the Yankees in the AL

I'm not a big baseball fan, but that pitcher has a midget helper dude, so I gotta pull for him!

I'm gonna be having a heart attack tonight. The Cardinals and Redskins are on at the same time. I'll be watching the skins for sure, but I'll flip to the cards game every few mintues to hopefully watch the Cardinals advance to the NLCS.

As some of you may know, I'm a big Yanks fan. I think whoever wins this series is winning the whole damn thing. Go Yankees. F**k Boston!!!

certified yankee hater (R)

its so unfair its not even funny...

MLB needs a salary cap. Teams that only have 200 people showing up to their games don't have a fighting chance to get the players people will pay to see.

I absolutely HATE the Yankees! They are the Dallas Cowboys of baseball.
Go Red Sox!!!

[QUOTE=That Guy]certified yankee hater (R)

its so unfair its not even funny...[/QUOTE]

Hey, Boston has the 2nd highest payroll in MLB. So it's not only the Yankees. Yes, they started that trend, but everyone else is following.

[QUOTE=SkinsRock]I absolutely HATE the Yankees! They are the Dallas Cowboys of baseball.
Go Red Sox!!![/QUOTE]

No way are they the Cowboys of Baseball. You're just a hater. Boston hasn't won a world series since 1918, so keep on waiting and hating my friend......

Don't hate the player, hate the game....Yankees have done nothing wrong

[QUOTE=smootsmack]Don't hate the player, hate the game....Yankees have done nothing wrong[/QUOTE]


Thank you Smootsmack....

This series is going to be so intense. I freaking love it. Curt Schilling is a freaking animal, I'm pulling for the Yanks, but I really like this guy. He's a warrior. Whoever wins is just gonna get smacked by my Cardinals anyways.

The Dallas Cowboys of baseball? Sorry but the boys don't have 26 titles.

[QUOTE=redrock-skins]The Dallas Cowboys of baseball? Sorry but the boys don't have 26 titles.[/QUOTE]
He means that he hates the Yankees in the same way he hates the Cowboys. I'm right there with him. Dallas is my #1 hatred, but NYY are a close second.

That's cool. Bring on the haters! I consider it respect for my team!

By the way, I was wondering if any of my fellow Yankee fans are members over at this great Yankee Fan site?

P.S. You have to use you ISP-based email address to get in. No Yahoo or Hotmail accounts allowed.

[url]http://www.nyyfans.com/[/url]

[quote=smootsmack]Don't hate the player, hate the game....Yankees have done nothing wrong[/quote]

except ruin the game...

[QUOTE=That Guy]except ruin the game...[/QUOTE]

The Yankees have done nothing to ruin the game. They haven't broken any rules. It's not their fault that MLB doesn't have a salary cap.

STOP HATING!


WHO'S YOUR DADDY!!!! GO YANKEES!!!

The yankees have done such zealous overspending that there's a total of one club that's even remotely competitive, no, that's not hurting baseball when no one gives a crap cause they know the yankees will just win anyways...

[QUOTE=That Guy]The yankees have done such zealous overspending that there's a total of one club that's even remotely competitive, no, that's not hurting baseball when no one gives a crap cause they know the yankees will just win anyways...[/QUOTE]

Don't our beloved Redskins do a lot of overspending also? If we were winning like the Yankees then everyone would hate us too. Thats the difference.

Yes the Yankees have done a lot of overspending, but hey they haven't won the World Series since 2000. Every club spends.......it just depends on the owner. Steinbrenner spends more than any other owner, but look at the Red Sox they have the 2nd highest payroll no one says anything about that. The Orioles went out and spent alot this year also.

The difference is is that the Yankees win. That's all.

If we were the Yankee's ( and dont get me wrong I root for the Yankee's and dont think they ruined the game ) , but if we were the Yanks, Manning would be our QB, Owens and Holt would be our WR's, Arrington, Lewis and Urlacher would be our LBs... and so on and so on.

[QUOTE=Gmanc711]If we were the Yankee's ( and dont get me wrong I root for the Yankee's and dont think they ruined the game ) , but if we were the Yanks, Manning would be our QB, Owens and Holt would be our WR's, Arrington, Lewis and Urlacher would be our LBs... and so on and so on.[/QUOTE]

I hear ya Gman, but what I meant was the Yankees have highest payroll like the Skins.......

The Yankees are an easy target. But as has been said here already they haven't played outside the rules and other teams spend as well. It's not their fault if other teams don't spend wisely and it's not their fault if other teams don't spend enough. Take the Royals for example, you figure they make around $20 million from revenue sharing. Plus roughly $25 million in national tv, radio money. They draw around 1.6 million fans to their stadium. Let's say that brings in another $50 million or so. Well now the Royals have $100 million dollars in revenue. Yet their major league payroll is only $46 million. Where's the rest of that money going then? It can pretty much go anywhere the owner wants it to go-stadium renovations, advertising, the team's minor league system.

In theory, because of revenue sharing and the luxury tax the more money teams like the Yankees spend the more money funnels down to teams like KC who complain they don't have enough money to compete (which isn't true). If there is no rule in place to enforce that this money is spent on the major league roster that's not the Yankees fault.

[QUOTE=smootsmack]The Yankees are an easy target. But as has been said here already they haven't played outside the rules and other teams spend as well. It's not their fault if other teams don't spend wisely and it's not their fault if other teams don't spend enough. Take the Royals for example, you figure they make around $20 million from revenue sharing. Plus roughly $25 million in national tv, radio money. They draw around 1.6 million fans to their stadium. Let's say that brings in another $50 million or so. Well now the Royals have $100 million dollars in revenue. Yet their major league payroll is only $46 million. Where's the rest of that money going then? It can pretty much go anywhere the owner wants it to go-stadium renovations, advertising, the team's minor league system.

In theory, because of revenue sharing and the luxury tax the more money teams like the Yankees spend the more money funnels down to teams like KC who complain they don't have enough money to compete (which isn't true). If there is no rule in place to enforce that this money is spent on the major league roster that's not the Yankees fault.[/QUOTE]


The owner of the Royals is also one of the wealthiest of the owners also. Nice post.

What a game....Yanks up 2-0. No one expected this to happen. Lieber out-pitched Pedro.

[QUOTE=redrock-skins]By the way, I was wondering if any of my fellow Yankee fans are members over at this great Yankee Fan site?

P.S. You have to use you ISP-based email address to get in. No Yahoo or Hotmail accounts allowed.

[url]http://www.nyyfans.com/[/url][/QUOTE]


Everytime I try to join the website won't let me. But I'll keep on trying. Once I get on, I'll let you know.

Lieber was Pedro's "daddy" tonight. Meanwhile the Cardinals exploded for a 6 run inning to win Game 1 of the NLCS 10-7.

[QUOTE=smootsmack]Lieber was Pedro's "daddy" tonight. Meanwhile the Cardinals exploded for a 6 run inning to win Game 1 of the NLCS 10-7.[/QUOTE]


Yeah I kept on switching during commercials. It looks like besides Clemens, and Oswalt the Astros don't have much pitching.

I'm shocked at the ALCS, I really hope ( and I'm rootin for the Yanks ) that Boston wins a couple games this weekend, so this thing gets interesting again, right now it stinks.

This series is still far from over and Boston is more than capable of making it a series. That said, I am very relieved after these 1st two games. Pedro pitched very well, but the Yankees do what they always do against him, keep the game close enough that they have a chance to win.

[QUOTE=Redskins_P]Everytime I try to join the website won't let me. But I'll keep on trying. Once I get on, I'll let you know.[/QUOTE]

Why don't they let you join? When I signed up 6 months ago, they email you a link or something for you to be able to join the forums. You are using your internet provider's email for your email address correct?

[QUOTE=redrock-skins]Why don't they let you join? When I signed up 6 months ago, they email you a link or something for you to be able to join the forums. You are using your internet provider's email for your email address correct?[/QUOTE]

It says that new registration has been temporarily disabled. Its all good. I'll keep on trying. For now, I'll post here on this thread.

It's good to post here since there are so many Yankee haters and we can go back and forth with them (in a friendly way).

[QUOTE=redrock-skins]This series is still far from over and Boston is more than capable of making it a series. That said, I am very relieved after these 1st two games. Pedro pitched very well, but the Yankees do what they always do against him, keep the game close enough that they have a chance to win.[/QUOTE]

Nobody expected the Yanks to be up 2-0. But I do agree that this series is no where near from over. Boston could've won game 1 and if it wasn't for Mariano last night the series could be tied. At least we have some momentum going in to Boston.

The Yankees can't get comfortable though. Boston is more than capable of tying this thing back up. We have to play like we're down 2-0. Hopefully Brown can handle Fenway and all those fans.

[QUOTE=Redskins_P]It says that new registration has been temporarily disabled. Its all good. I'll keep on trying. For now, I'll post here on this thread.

It's good to post here since there are so many Yankee haters and we can go back and forth with them (in a friendly way).[/QUOTE]

I bet they are not taking any new registrations until the Boston series is over. That way it prevents a bunch of flamers from Boston or even NY coming in. Every Boston series this year brought a bunch of newbies and flame wars begin.

[quote]Don't our beloved Redskins do a lot of overspending also? If we were winning like the Yankees then everyone would hate us too. Thats the difference.

Yes the Yankees have done a lot of overspending, but hey they haven't won the World Series since 2000. Every club spends.......it just depends on the owner. Steinbrenner spends more than any other owner, but look at the Red Sox they have the 2nd highest payroll no one says anything about that. The Orioles went out and spent alot this year also.

The difference is is that the Yankees win. That's all.[/quote]
uhh... maybe you didn't notice that the NFL has a salary cap and while not all owners use it as effectively, there's a limit... the yankees have no limit and smaller clubs just can't compete in any way (AT ALL) because of the vast differences in economies and the way the leagues profit-sharing etc work out... (the NFL sharing a much higher %, has a hard limit and team totals are reasonable compared to the shared profit and financial standings of even the small market teams).

the red sox, like i said, are the only competitive club to the yankees, and i wouldn't bother saying anything if there were more clubs closer to the yankees payroll, but there aren't and there haven't been... if they could beat equal monied clubs night in and night out, that'd be fine by me... but if you start an NFL game where one team always starts 27 points behind... well, that's not exactly exciting/worthwhile/fair...

Well like I, and I think others, have said in earlier posts the Yankees are not to blame if other teams aren't spending more money

but the league set it up that way, and the financial problems of other teams limit their ability, i'm not saying its the yankees fault that that system is in place, but the fact that over 2 teams really overspend like that really ruins the entire game for me, because if its not competitive, there's not much reason for me to watch...

[QUOTE=That Guy]uhh... maybe you didn't notice that the NFL has a salary cap and while not all owners use it as effectively, there's a limit... the yankees have no limit and smaller clubs just can't compete in any way (AT ALL) because of the vast differences in economies and the way the leagues profit-sharing etc work out... (the NFL sharing a much higher %, has a hard limit and team totals are reasonable compared to the shared profit and financial standings of even the small market teams).

the red sox, like i said, are the only competitive club to the yankees, and i wouldn't bother saying anything if there were more clubs closer to the yankees payroll, but there aren't and there haven't been... if they could beat equal monied clubs night in and night out, that'd be fine by me... but if you start an NFL game where one team always starts 27 points behind... well, that's not exactly exciting/worthwhile/fair...[/QUOTE]


Uhhh yeah I did notice that. You'd have to be real stupid to not notice that. All I'm trying to say is, the Redskins like the Yankees have an owner who's committed to winning and will spend as much as he can to win. You can't appreciate that?

Look man, I respect your opinion and I'll leave it alone. All I want is for my Redskins to start winning and my Yanks to continue winning. I'm just a fan, thats it. I'm no expert in payrolls or economies or profit-sharing. That's the way the league is set up. And it doesn't look like it's changing anytime soon.