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[TruffleShuffle]

Outside of New York who gives a rat's ass the Yankess ended their nine year "drought" and won the WS?

 

nobody.

 

that's a big reason why people hate the yankees; they have this sense of arrogance and entitlement about winning the championship. i guess it's kind of like michael bloomberg - when you wildly outspend everyone you expect to win.

[jersey cubs fan]

Outside of New York who gives a rat's ass the Yankess ended their nine year "drought" and won the WS?

 

nobody.

 

that's a big reason why people hate the yankees; they have this sense of arrogance and entitlement about winning the championship. i guess it's kind of like michael bloomberg - when you wildly outspend everyone you expect to win.

 

 

In NY people don't really seem to care either.

[TruffleShuffle]

the phillies really needed cole hamels to be cole hamels in this series. if he had pitched like he did the past two seasons, that would have given the phils a #1/2 that was better than the yankees' top 2, and they would have been able to go with two top pitchers in four of their games. instead hamels has been lousy this year, esp. in the playoffs, and they had to start past-his-prime pedro twice.

 

can't really account for that sort of thing - i thought the phillies did well to build a team that was set up to repeat, but when your ace turns into an average pitcher, it's hard to do that.

[gflore34]

the phillies really needed cole hamels to be cole hamels in this series. if he had pitched like he did the past two seasons, that would have given the phils a #1/2 that was better than the yankees' top 2, and they would have been able to go with two top pitchers in four of their games. instead hamels has been lousy this year, esp. in the playoffs, and they had to start past-his-prime pedro twice.

 

can't really account for that sort of thing - i thought the phillies did well to build a team that was set up to repeat, but when your ace turns into an average pitcher, it's hard to do that.

 

Ryan Howard taking an o-fer didn't help either.

[TruffleShuffle]

the phillies really needed cole hamels to be cole hamels in this series. if he had pitched like he did the past two seasons, that would have given the phils a #1/2 that was better than the yankees' top 2, and they would have been able to go with two top pitchers in four of their games. instead hamels has been lousy this year, esp. in the playoffs, and they had to start past-his-prime pedro twice.

 

can't really account for that sort of thing - i thought the phillies did well to build a team that was set up to repeat, but when your ace turns into an average pitcher, it's hard to do that.

 

Ryan Howard taking an o-fer didn't help either.

 

yeah, he was always going to struggle in this series with all the LHP the yankees threw out there. his line against lhp was .207/.298//.356/.653. charlie manuel is generally a good manager, but i have no idea why he still hits howard in the cleanup spot against lefties. he's awful against them whereas werth destroys them.

 

letting hideki matsui look like babe ruth kinda hurt too.

[Keener98]

the phillies really needed cole hamels to be cole hamels in this series. if he had pitched like he did the past two seasons, that would have given the phils a #1/2 that was better than the yankees' top 2, and they would have been able to go with two top pitchers in four of their games. instead hamels has been lousy this year, esp. in the playoffs, and they had to start past-his-prime pedro twice.

 

can't really account for that sort of thing - i thought the phillies did well to build a team that was set up to repeat, but when your ace turns into an average pitcher, it's hard to do that.

 

Ryan Howard taking an o-fer didn't help either.

 

yeah, he was always going to struggle in this series with all the LHP the yankees threw out there. his line against lhp was .207/.298//.356/.653. charlie manuel is generally a good manager, but i have no idea why he still hits howard in the cleanup spot against lefties. he's awful against them whereas werth destroys them.

 

letting hideki matsui look like babe ruth kinda hurt too.

 

Howard is a "star", you don't move your star players down in the order. Howard is a cleanup hitter dude!

[RedFlash]

who changed the thread title? when i become president it will become legal - nay, mandatory - for john sterling to be karate kicked in the throat anytime he launches into that awful call.

 

Something we can agree on. Whoever changed the title you should Brandon Spikes'd.

[J.R.]

Outside of New York who gives a rat's ass the Yankess ended their nine year "drought" and won the WS?

 

I don't necessarily see any significance in the "drought" being over. I do however think it's very interesting that for the first time in recent memory you had a significant number of key players from a "dynasty" that was long past - Jeter, Posada, Rivera and Pettite - winning another title in the same uniform.

 

Imagine parts of the '76 Reds - say Rose, Concepcion and Perez - remaining competitive into their twilight years and winning the 1985 Series for Cincinnati. It would be the stuff of legend, and I think the '09 Yankees would be regarded as such if not for the jealousy and hatred directed their way.

[Derwood]

ratings up 40% from last year. this is why baseball won't do anything to prevent the yankees overspending.

 

what's amazing is that the numbers can't touch ratings from the pre-cable era. The 1975 World Series (Reds vs. Red Sox) averaged 76 million viewers

[Sammy Sofa]

ratings up 40% from last year. this is why baseball won't do anything to prevent the yankees overspending.

 

what's amazing is that the numbers can't touch ratings from the pre-cable era. The 1975 World Series (Reds vs. Red Sox) averaged 76 million viewers

 

What's amazing about that? Most people didn't have cable then. There was far less to watch.

[Derwood]

ratings up 40% from last year. this is why baseball won't do anything to prevent the yankees overspending.

 

what's amazing is that the numbers can't touch ratings from the pre-cable era. The 1975 World Series (Reds vs. Red Sox) averaged 76 million viewers

 

What's amazing about that? Most people didn't have cable then. There was far less to watch.

 

It just marks the difference in eras. There is nothing that will approach that kind of viewership again.

[Soul]

Black is white. Up is down. Evil triumphs in the end. Yankees win.