Yankees having a bad season........I love it

The only thing stopping the other teams from boosting payroll are their pinchpenny owners.

Fun Fact: the Yankees had the lowest operating income of all teams in 2007.

While owners of teams like the Pirates emphasize turning a profit, the Steinbrenners say "screw the cost, let's just win".

If your favorite team was like that and had a bunch of money to spend on players, I guarntee you wouldn't have a problem with it.

i so overcome with joy that i can watch a postseason with no pin-stripes in sight
LMAO....
o its so perfect
i'm a die hard mariners fan we may be the first team with $100+ million payroll with 100+ losses
but i feel sooooo much better when i see the standings and yankees in third place and out of the playoffs!!!!!
LMAO...
o.....perfect!!!!GC4ever

Not as perfect as you may wish. The Yankees have a future, and always will. The Mariners are utter garbage and only God knows how long it will take them to rebuild. You can laugh all you want at the Yankees and pretend to feel better, but they competed until the end, something the Mariners weren't even doing half way through the season when a lot of analysts picked the Mariners to win the West (lol). The Yankees will be competing next year and are expected to improve their rotation and our players coming off the DL, namely Wang and Posada will be more than enough to get the Yankees back on track.

2008 was a bump in the road for the Yankees. For the Mariners that same road led to a cliff they drove straight off of. :lol:

I do shed a tear for Ichiro though. Such a waste of good talent...

i so overcome with joy that i can watch a postseason with no pin-stripes in sight
LMAO....
o its so perfect
i'm a die hard mariners fan we may be the first team with $100+ million payroll with 100+ losses
but i feel sooooo much better when i see the standings and yankees in third place and out of the playoffs!!!!!
LMAO...
o.....perfect!!!!GC4ever

LMAO YOUR A MARINER FAN! No other reason, your a Mariner fan and thats hysterical enough.

Listen, I'm a HUGE Yankee fan, but we didn't have a bad season. The Rays came out of nowhere, and honestly, I think its awesome they got in. To bad they play in a waste of a baseball market, but still awesome for them none the less.

Also, the last Yankee Dynasty we watched wasn't built by "buying players." It was built by acquiring all the right pieces. A lot of trades were made for guys their former teams thought was done (Scott Brosius is a great example of this). And lets not forget who built that Dynasty, Bob Watson, who doesn't seem to ever get mentioned when talking about the Dynasty.

The Yankees have a great future coming. We're going to be shedding a ton of pay roll, our farm players have played very well, Wang will be back, Chamberlain is an ace in the making, and we have the best closer of all time.

The Yankees this year also had some GREAT moments, including that incredible ceremony to close out Yankee Stadium.