6 1 All drrubb Re: Did I mention how much I hate the Yankees? 3/6/05, 6:21pm (Last Edited: 3/6/05, 6:30pm) On second thought, let me get into it just incase you don't know who I am on this message board. When George Stienbrenner dies, I want to urinate & possibly even take a big fat dump on his grave. I feel like I am a very patriotic person towards my country, but if the Taliban had a baseball team & they played the New York Yankees, I would pull for the Taliban baseball team. No, I'm not a terrorist. I just mean if it were a baseball game. The media glorifies the Yankees like they are God's gift to baseball. What have they done that is so special? Anyone could win if they had the Yankees money & spending power, which is why there needs to be a salary cap in baseball, but that is another subject. I can't stand the Yankee arrogance. The only reason they get more coverage than any other baseball team, or sports team for that matter is because they are in the biggest market so the media always has their nose up the Yankees' ass. Every major league team should have as much coverage as the Yankees. If the media has it there way, the Yankees will always be on top because they just don't get it! Why don't teams like the Royals or Tigers, or Padres get as much attention as the Yankees? It's a trickle down effect. First, they are not big market teams. If they are not a big market team, they get very little press coverage. If they get very little press coverage, no one knows who they are. If you don't know who they are, no one is going to really care. If no one really cares & they are not recognized, no one will buy their product, thus keeping them small market. There are a bunch of naive bandwagon Yankees fans out there who are deceived by the main stream media. The main stream media makes the Yankees look very GQ, very sexy. Sex sales. Charisma sales. It's mainly the media's fault. What would happen if the media quit giving the Yankees so much attention & started pumping the Royals up the butt over a period of time. Let's say 10 years. If the media somehow made the Royals look like a sexy team or a popular team & completely shut off the Yankees, maybe the Royals' stature in major league baseball society would rise. Maybe people would go out & buy Royals merchandise & maybe it would lead them out of the small market hell hole that exist today only for the big market team's amusement. The small market teams are all just Yankees farm systems aren't they? Stienbrenner just goes to the grocery store when he seeks out the free agency market with what seems to be his bottomless checking account. The Yankees will never be special for any reason in my eyes. It's not hard to be a dynasty when you have endless spending power. When they win World Series titles, they aren't really doing anything special or great. When you have twice as much, if not more than twice as much money as the next richest team to them, they are not accomplishing anything great when they win championships because they are supposed to with all the luxuries & riches they have. In fact, they are nothing but failures if they don't atleast get to the World Series every year given today's baseball economics & salary structure. The media will unfortunately never turn their attention & coverage from the Yankees because to them unfortunately, that would be TV ratings suicide & that is unfortunate. Have I said the word unfortunate enough? Think about it, New York is the biggest market(which really really sucks). This is because a shitload of people live in New York City & the surrounding areas. ESPN for instance, is going to cater to the largest market because they want the ratings & the TV viewers to watch Sportscenter, especially in the big market areas like New York City. It's a monopoly & they monopolize on each other. This leads to great revenue generated for the Yankees because the average person sees the Yankees this & the Yankees that on Sportscenter so they hop on that Yankee bandwagon. They get very familiarized with the New York Yankees. All this does is continue to feed the monster, therefore the Yankees will always generate a great deal of money because of the stupid ass media who generates the interest in them. It's a never ending cycle! I can't f@#king stand it! The Yankees will always have a big unfair advantage. A salary cap in baseball would help the situation somewhat. The Yankees can go to hell as far as I'm concerned! The media is a big part of the Yankees success if you sit down & really think about it. I can't stand the media either! What about the Devil Rays? What about the Royals? What about the Tigers? What about the Padres? There needs to be more equal time & attention to all of the other teams in baseball by the media. There needs to be more of a level playing field. There needs to be ways to effectively promote & market all of the other major league teams instead of just hearing about the damn Yankees all of the damn God for saken time! This is what's wrong with baseball, although I still love the game. [drrubb from Panama City Beach/Florida] Replies: 3 11 21