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Amazin' Avenue: Joe Posnanski On The Yankees' Glut And Baseball's Illusion Of Parity
Brew Crew Ball: Friday's Brisket Carving Station.
Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke?: Hermida musings and minor league miscellanea
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More Yankee payroll bashing: http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2009/11/05/the-yankees-payroll/ 18 days ago |
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Why no one talks about the thing everyone used to talk about. Flawless logic from J.Posnanski on the Yankee death star: http://bit.ly/2PNlKM 19 days ago |
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Excellent essay on Yankees' giant payroll & why it's not that big a deal b/c baseball is a unique sport. http://tinyurl.com/ygalcbd #fb 20 days ago |
Joe Posnanski On The Yankees' Glut And Baseball's Illusion Of Parity
Amazin' Avenue —
... fan in the past twenty-four hours and found your "They spend more money than anyone!" justification quickly rebuffed, go read Joe Posnanski's latest blog entry and arm yourself for the next encounter. ...
Friday's Brisket Carving Station.
Brew Crew Ball —
... I'm putting Joe Posnanski's post on the Yankees' payroll in the clean-up slot because, as per usual, Pos knocks it out of the park. (To paraphrase Pos: while everybody else is playing "Contra" with the standard allotment of three lives, the Yanks have gone UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A START. Is it within the rules of the game? Sure. Does that make it any easier to swallow? Hells no.) ...
Hermida musings and minor league miscellanea
Where Have You Gone, Andy Van Slyke? —
... Finally, Joe Posnanski has a good post about the Yankees' payroll. I have something to say about this and how it relates to the Pirates, but I don't really know exactly how I want to say it. It's something along the lines of, "It really sucks how unfair baseball is, but it's not going to change any time soon and spending time wallowing in self-pity is only going to make things worse." Only if I write the post, it'll be 1500 words long and include several nerdy pop-culture references. ...
Recommended reading
U.S.S. Mariner —
... Joe Posnanski on the frustration of the Yankees, a topic that leads people like me to only half -jokingly propose they be forced to eat other teams’ bad contracts. Check it out. ...
Pickoff Moves
6-4-2 — an Angels/Dodgers double play blog —
... Wolf and Hudson are both Type A free agents. Type B free agents are Belliard, Padilla, Garland, Mota and Ohman.
The Yankees' Payroll Sucks
Joe Posnanski says so: ...
Links around the Web, since the league didn't do much for me this week
Cycle like the Sedins —
... Vance from Bangin Panger brought a great blog post by Joe Posnanski to my attention ... it accurately captures my feelings of unrest. Even Chicago Blackhawks fans should be glad the NHL went with a salary cap after reading a piece like that. Although ESPN the Magazine is at best the ugly stepchild of Sports Illustrated, they had an offer for a $3/year subscription so I thought, "Why not?" I'm not sure if you'll be able to read these because they're "Insider" stories (let me know in the comments), but ...
The After-Met: Baseball 2009...From the Ridiculous to the Surreal
It's Mets For Me: Off-Beat, Tangentially Relevant Mets Ruminations —
... (warning: link is suitable for work, or at least it was produced at work, but there is nudity). Scholar-bloggers expressed their disappointment/resignation as to what the latest Yankees business acquisition means for baseball in other ways. ...
On Payrolls
Twinkie Town —
... . And then the great Joe Posnanski got in on the act, pointing out that baseball has a tendency to hide dominance - that even if you put together a team made up of the best players in baseball, that team still might lose 45-50 games during the season, and still might not win the World Series. That's just the way it's set up. ...
Things to Read: 11/9
Tremendous Upside Potential —
... Big League Stew: Sammy Sosa's skin explained. I guess. Joe Posnanski: Putting the Yankees' payroll in perspective. The Blowtorch: In case you forgot how bad the Hornets are... Deadspin: Donald Sterling is an awful, awful person. Free Darko: The cautionary tale of Jeremy Tyler. And a music video. After the jump... ...
This Post Will Not Win Me Any Friends Among My FJayM Colleagues and Our Loyal Readers
Fire Jay Mariotti —
... I know most of you (especially Larry and Jack) have strong feelings about. b.) It is a rip of an article by Joe Posnanski, a guy who is my favorite sportswriter living today not named Bill James--and I'm sure a favorite of a number of yours since the readers of this site generally seem like non-idiots. c.) It's not a particularly new article. Baseball's over right? It's basketball (bleh) and football (Fire Lovie Smith!) season. Nevertheless. Here goes. Here’s the thing about the New York Yankees huge payroll: It has been talked about so ...
Money Complaints
baseballmusings.com —
... Joe Posnanski complains about the Yankees payroll. One way around this without making any new rules is simply to force the Steinbrenners to sell the team. One of the strengths of the Yankees franchise is the family holding the team for a very long time, approaching 40 years. The long term holding allowed the Yankees to deleverage. Imagine paying $1000 a month on a mortgage for 20 years, then paying it off. Suddenly, your cash flow looks a lot better. On top of that, your home probably appreciated a good deal. If you neighbor moved in just two years ago, and makes the same ...
The Hosken Powell Memorial Offseason/Hot Stove Linkdump II
Twinkie Town —
... Item: Buster Olney thinks Joe Mauer's contract negotiations might be the most important story of the offseason.
Nobody asked me, but: well, duh. Obviously, this is a big story for Twins fans. But, as Olney notes, the question of parity and the gulf between the haves and the have-lesses (or, if you'd rather, the Yankees and everyone else) is a big story everywhere. (See also: Joe Posnanski, Jon Marthaler.) One thing that I can guarantee: whatever changes are or are not made to the ...
