Sox/Yankee fans

[KnightsRule]

This is off of one of the many Sox hate Yanks sites.

Reasons why the YANKEE$ $UCK:  

The Yankee$ don't $uck because they have a bad baseball team they $uck because they are located in the largest U.S. city (8 million citizens, over twice as large as #2 L.A.) and by default enjoy an enormous financial advantage over other teams. They $uck because they leverage their financial advantage so successfully.

Of course the worse example of their financial strength occurred on January 3, 1920 when the Yankee$ bought Babe Ruth from the Red Sox for $125,000 and a $350,000 loan against the mortgage on Fenway Park. It wasn't hard work that started their success but $$$$$.

On November 21, 1934 the Yankee$ bought Joe DiMaggio from the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League for $50,000.

In April 2003 the Yankee$ imposed a tax on up to 3 million New York metro area homes when their YES cable network began to charge $2 per month to each Cablevion cable subscriber. This should result in an estimated $200 million dollars in revenue to the Yankee$ from cable operators and advertising versus a league wide average of $22 million per team.

The Yankee$ have always had more money than other teams but the advent of free-agency and cable television subscription revenue has allowed the Yankee$ to buy just about any player they want.

Year

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

Payroll (millions)

$48

$58

$62

$73

$74

$92

$113

$110

$133

$155

$185

League Standing

1st

1st

1st

1st

2nd

1st

1st

1st

1st

1st

1st

The players the Yankee$ have bought is long but starts with the first ever free-agent signing on December 31, 1974 when the Yankee$ bought Catfish Hunter for a then record 5 year $3.5 million contract. Their ability to pay any amount of salary has

allowed them to sign players directly in free agency or by trading for players others teams could not afford and then signing them to long-term contracts.

Their late 1970 and early 1980 success was achieved by buying:  Catfish Hunter,

Reggie Jackson, Tommy John, Goose Gossage, Lou Pinella, Greg Nettles, Chris Chambliss, Mickey Rivers, Jim Katt, Louis Tiant, Don Gullett, Ken Holtzman, Paul

Blair and Dave Winfield.

Their more recent success has been achieved by buying:  Paul O'Neil, Rickey Henderson, Jeff Nelson, John Wetteland, Tino Martinez, Darryl Strawberry, Hideki Irabu, Mike Stanton, David Cone, Jimmy Key, Tim Raines, Cecil Fielder, Wade Boggs, Orlando Hernandez, Scott Brosius, Roger Clemens, Chuck Knoblauch, Dwight Gooden, Denny Neagle, Jose Canseco, Luis Polonia, David Justice, Mike Mussina, Mark Wholers, David Wells, Jason Giambi, Robin Ventura, Jeff Weaver, Raul Mondesi, Hideki Matsui, Jose Contreras, Ruben Sierra, Armando Benitez and Aaron Boone.

For 2004 they have bought: Gary Sheffield, Kevin Brown, Tom Gordon, Paul Quantrill, Jon Lieber, Kenny Lofton, Travis Lee and of course A-ROD (Alex Rodriguez).

One last reason the Yankee$ $uck is the New York media. Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941 and won the triple-crown in 1942 and again in 1947 but in neither of those

years did he win the AL MVP Award. In each of those years the New York media handed the award to a Yankee, Joe DiMaggio in 1941 and 1947 and to Joe Gordon (who?)  in 1942. Gordon led the AL in only one offensive category in 1942, most STRIKEOUTS! While Teddy Ballgame led the AL in SIX OFFENSIVE CATEGORIES!  

Of course, George King of the New York Post omitted Pedro Martinez from his ballot

in the 1999 MVP voting costing Pedro the MVP to Ivan Rodriguez of Texas.

Career Lowlights of Convicted Felon George Steinbrenner III:

Ironic isn't it that Boston was plagued by another George III (King of England -

1700's), hopefully we'll have as much success overthrowing this one as we did

with the last one.

BUY's YANKEE$ - January 1973 - A limited partnership, headed by

George M. Steinbrenner III purchases the Yankees from CBS for $10

million. He stated: "I won't be active in the day-to-day operations of the

club at all." This hands-off owner then changed managers 21 times from

1973 to 1996.

RICH KID from DADDY'S MONEY - $teinbrenner made his fortune in

shipbuilding from the company his great-great grandfather started in the

1840's (typical rich kid living off of his family's money).

OUR TAX DOLLARS PAID to $teinbrenner

As CEO of American Ship Building Company he built the company

with the aid of U.S. taxpayer dollars and protectionist measures

passed by our National politicians in Washington D.C. $teinbrenner

has had numerous instances of making legal and ILLEGAL

contributions to politicians and has received well over $100 million in federal contracts, loans and in one instance his company received a

$58 million federal bailout courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

He has received with lax oversight in anti-trust reviews of corporate acquisitions.

The City of New York paid $24 million to renovate Yankee Stadium

for him.

WATERGATE & ILLEGAL CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS - According to Watergate Senate testimony, George $teinbrenner in April 1970 met with his company's secretary and treasurer and set up a bonus plan under which employees would be told to convert the bonus funds into illegal  campaign contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign fund.

FELON - In 1974, a grand jury in Cleveland indicted him on 14 counts,

including making illegal political contributions to Richard Nixon's 1972

re-election campaign. $teinbrenner later pleaded guilty to one felony count

as well as a misdemeanor charge and was fined only $15,000.

BANNED from BASEBALL - Three months later, Baseball Commissioner

Bowie Kuhn banned him for two years for illegal actions that "undermine the public's confidence in our game." Kuhn later reduced the ban to only 15

months.

WATERGATE SNITCH - In October 1973 before he was indicted for making illegal campaign contributions to Richard Nixon, $teinbrenner considered

singing for some leniency by snitching on others who also made illegal

campaign contributions. According to this memo prepared by lawyers with

the Watergate special prosecutor, $teinbrenner attorney Edward Bennett Williams said that his client had information on other illegal contributions, not

to mention the sale of ambassadorships and a Teamsters slush fund. $teinbrenner's offer was rejected forcing him to eventually pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy count as well as a misdemeanor charge. http://www.thesmokinggun.com/

PRESIDENTIAL PARDON for his FELONY - On his next to last day in office

in 1989, President Ronald Reagan pardoned $teinbrenner for illegally funneling money to Nixon's 1972 presidential campaign. There is no documented

evidence to suggest that Reagan pardoned the felon $teinbrenner to get

back at Massachusetts residents for being the only State in 1972 to vote

against Nixon.

"LIFETIME" BAN - Fay Vincent, spurred on by a 1990 Daily News report, slapped a "lifetime ban" on $teinbrenner because he paid a gambler named Howie Spira $40,000 for information he could use to discredit Yankee Dave Winfield. Yankee fans greeted the announcement with a standing ovation at Yankee Stadium. Vincent lifted the ban only three years later (paid off?).

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