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I'm not. The Yankees have missed the playoffs one time in fourteen years and, have won 5 World Series titles in that time.
It's not a Yankee hater thing. They have great players who got them to the playoffs all but one time since '96. I just find that every since they ballooned their lineup salary, compared to the 25 teams that cannot spend that kind of money, it's been like putting a squad of seniors against a squad of freshman - a majority of the time, the more skilled players are going to win to make the playoffs - they may not win the championship every time, because typically, they play series that are either 5 or 7 games in the playoffs - but they get there because of that money differential. The Phillies spent a whopping $111 million on players this year - but the Yanks outspent them by nearly $100 million.
It destroys the parity of the game and makes the playoffs boring - I thought I'd give baseball a try this post-season after about 4 years of ignoring it - it's still rather boring, so back to football I put my interest after this night. That sucks for me, because I used to love baseball - but, you can only watch the unfair way it's setup and put up with seeing the same faces in the playoffs -
Top 8 NYY Players 2009 Salary 1. Alex Rodriguez 33,000,000 2. Derek Jeter 21,600,000 3. Mark Teixeira 20,625,000 4. A.J. Burnett 16,500,000 5. CC Sabathia 15,285,714 6. Mariano Rivera 15,000,000 7. Jorge Posada 13,100,000 8 a. Johnny Damon 13,000,000 8 b. Hideki Matsui 13,000,000
The 3 highest paid Yankees combined make more than each of these teams entire lineups -
17. Cincinnati 73,558,500 18. Arizona 73,516,666 19. Texas 73,439,238 20. Toronto 72,563,200 21. Colorado 72,428,000 22. Tampa Bay 68,230,934 23. Minnesota 67,634,766 24. Cleveland 66,757,366 25. Washington 62,001,000 26. Baltimore 61,885,566 27. Oakland 56,089,250 28. San Diego 37,800,800 29. Florida 35,774,000 30. Pittsburgh 25,197,000
And seriously, since the Yankees make the playoffs repeatedly - one can only stomach seeing RUDY Giuliani's ugly mug behind the on deck circle so many times before you just turn it off.
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