Mens Journal just lost a whole bunch of subscribers for life… What a douche bag

What was it that former Red Sox pitcher Bronson Arroyo said recently? Oh, yeah:

“If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there’s only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else.”

But go ahead and hate the Yankees while you cheer for the teams who get $30m in revenue sharing and then field a $26m team-–and that’s before the TV money comes in; before they sell a seat or even a hot dog–-to ensure they make a profit. Who cares if they sell false hope to their team’s fans? Losing seasons? So what? At least their books aren’t in the red. Right?

That’s what baseball needs. Not owners willing to spend to give their fans a championship. Suckers. Why waste money on trying to win, when selling false hope and suffering is way cheaper?

Time to chow down on some crow, Matt.

Hey Taibbi – maybe taking huge financial gambles and betting you’re right is what made the Yankees (and America) great. Sure beats letting self-procliaimed small-dick experts like you make the call in the name of sustainability or self-esteem boosting or whatever red crap you’re in love with this week.

By the way, that burning smell is your flaming jacknifed trailer on the Cross-Bronx Expwy exploding after it crashed into the idiot barrier. Yankee fans are taking up a collection and willingly paying a luxury tax to pour gasline on the smoldering embers.

Take your socialist-loving BS and choke on it. For the rest of you Yankee haters – keep telling yourselves that it was all a dream. We’ll be back to steal your lunch money, kick your ass and kidnap your women next year, too. After all, it’s the American way.

don’t think so, buddy.

if you know anything about baseball and the yankees, you will know that Cashman is never going to let the farm system get stripped down to nothingness ever again.

that’s the difference.

the Yankees have learned how to draft. so now they can draft, develop prospects to trade or to play, sign international FA’s, and sign big money FA’s.

Cashman is building a MONSTER of an organization, and anyone who knows anything about baseball (Matt Taibbi, that’s not you) can see that the yankees are going to be a force for a long time.

they won’t win it every year, that’s not realistic, but you will never see another stretch like 2004-2007 with old, unathletic players and no pitching.

not gonna happen.

Cashman now has 4 rings. the only ring Taibbi has is the one he puts on his flaccid…oh, you know.

since this team was supposed to crash and burn under the weight of their stars’ egos, doesn’t that mean Girardi is Manager of the Year?

eat sh*t moron.

The reality is that Cashman spends much more money than any other team, therefore the Yankees are expected to win the whole shebang EVERY YEAR — they can’t argue they don’t have the right tools. Yet this is their first win since 2000, giving them a batting average of .111. That’s worse than Mario Mendoza would hit NOW — even against A.J. Burnett.

So enjoy your victory today, Yankees fans. Lord knows you bought it for 10 straight years. Congrats on finally getting a return on your money pit.

See you back there in a decade!

On behalf of Yankee fans across the world..one big single finger NY salute to you and your article from a few months back about the Yankees. feel free to whie about it..id rather enjoy success. Keep writing and showing us all you “know” about sports! Doh

Mike M Long Island NY

GO YANKEEEEEES!!!! Muahahahahahahahahaha….

You seem to have a great knack for writing. However, it may be in your best interest to write about something else besides Major League Baseball. Before I dissect your laughable article in hindsight, let me first feed you some facts about what Brian Cashman has done before the 2009 Yankees took over the sports world.

In case you forgot, or chose to ignore the fact, Brian Cashman and his Yankees made the playoffs and won more games than any other team in MLB with their “lets sign the best available free agents and add them to our farm kids” mentality every season from 1995 through 2007. 2008 was a year that included injuries to their Ace pitcher, best up-and-coming pitcher, DH, catcher, and two hall-of-fame infielders. And on top of all of those injuries, they still won 89 games! In fact, since they ran off 4 World Series Championships in 5 years from 1996 to 2000, no team has won more regular season games than the Yankees! (See 2001-2008). Forget the fact that the Yankees have already proved everything you wrote about for the 2009 season absolutely wrong, but even if they bombed this year, your theory would still be bogus. Spending money, and spending if wisely has done nothing but good for the Yankees. Check out their dynasty of the late 90′s. They signed, and traded for vets in the prime of their careers and added them to a home-grown core of Jeter, Williams, Pettitte, Rivera etc.

Now, what were you saying about this year’s Yankee free agent class? CC, AJ and Tex have done nothing but dominate thus far in 2009. These signings were all pulled off by Cashman. Yes, for the most part he had a blank check, but he did end up maxing out his “budget” and had to convince CC, AJ and tex that this was the best place for their families and career. Cashman even made under-the-radar acquisitions like Nick Swisher and Jerry Harriston Jr. that have paid huge dividends already in October. So please, do all of us a favor and drum-up and apology article that takes back everything that you so wrongly published about thie team.

And in the future, maybe try writing about anything in the world besides the Yankees, and stop trying to act like Brian Cashman doesn’t know what he’s doing. Every GM makes their fair share of bad signings and trades, but he has actually been dead on for the last 5 or so seasons.

Maybe you can publish something on the Red Sox and their old, overpaid, battered down, injury-plagued, steroid abusing roster that was swept out of the first round this year? But that wouldn’t provide much flair now would it?

Fucking moronic.

Stick to politics, Matt. You sound like another bitter Mets/Red Sox fan who would be indicted for fraudulent accosting if you had really tried to pass yourself off as a fortune teller