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DownFromNJ said:The 2005 Yankee team has the potential to be the best team in baseball history.
Randy Johnson Mike Mussina Carl Pavano Jaret Wright Kevin Brown - if all of them are on their A games, that is the game's best rotation ever. Rivera/Gordon/Karsay/Quantrill/F-Rodrigez/Stanton/Koo/Sturtze is the best bullpen ever and the lineup (with or without Beltran) could be the best murders row ever.
Are our memories that short?
No question that the Yankees will be favorites to win it all going into 2005. But they were the best team going into the the last four years. On paper means ZIP. NADA. Just ask the NY Rangers, 1998-2004.
One wants to get excited and ahead of yourself based on the HYPE of offseason acquisitions, no one is stopping you. Point is, big names and the spending of big money guarantees nothing. But that won't stop some from exaggerating the correlation between big payrolls and championships. (There is, in fact, a correlation, just not nearly as severe as some would suggest.)
trentmccleary said:The Yankees might win 1 of every 3 World Series championships for the next 50 years, but that's more than enough reason to fix this mess.
What "mess"? (In baseball). Please be specific.
And, if 1 out of 3 World Series championships is unexceptable, what would be OK by you? How would you like to re-engineer it? would 1 out of 4 be acceptable? And who do we want to wee in the intervening years? Joking with you, but you get the point. Geremandering is geremandering, period. And for all the fretting with the mess in bball, the sport has had four different champions the last four seasons...none from NY.
(And I am not a Yankee fan.)
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