Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
February 04, 2007
Double Standard

WasWatching notes a double standard involving the Yankees.


Posted by David Pinto at 11:10 AM | Attendance | TrackBack (0)
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So why shouldn't the Rockies be able to bitch about it? MLB could have said "Hell No!"...but they didn't......So let's shed a tear for Yankees nation? Puh-leaze.......Gimme a break...Who would you rather face if you are the Yanks? Peavy or one of those crappy Rockie pitchers? How, exactly, does this screw the Yankees? Old Boy never really explains that from what I read.....This is business, same crap the Yankees say when people bitch about their payroll, so they need to live with that and not whine...If they didn't have the TV contract they do, they'd be the friggin Mets......A team with good, but not great, success.....

Posted by: Booyakasha at February 4, 2007 08:06 PM

That isn't a double-standard.

Making the best out of a unfair situation isn't a double-standard.

I'm just waiting for the time when Steinbrenner walks down to the visiting team's dugout, writes a check, and puts that player in the lineup.

Posted by: dave at February 4, 2007 09:12 PM

I think you might wait a while there dave.

Posted by: BryanK at February 4, 2007 10:10 PM

Now, why do the Yankees draw so well? Because they've boosted their product sexiness by spending a gazillion dollars. So I don't see the double standard here.

Posted by: Morris L. T. at February 4, 2007 10:11 PM

To be fair, Steve never mentions "double standard". Nor does the article he linked to.

Other teams want to bitch about spending, fine. But don't go crying to the league when they Yankees aren't scheduled to play in your stadium this year. Do the other 29 teams get to pick who comes to their town as well?

Posted by: Jen at February 4, 2007 11:28 PM

I'm just waiting for the time when Steinbrenner walks down to the visiting team's dugout, writes a check, and puts that player in the lineup.

This was possibly one of the silliest things I've seen in a while. I mean, who spent more money this off-season? The Cubs and the Red Sox or the Yankees? Gimme a break.

Posted by: Benjamin Kabak at February 5, 2007 12:19 AM

Assuming this is a three game series. The Yanks used their influence to almost assure 2 of 3 games in colorado, facing sub-par pitching, instead of roughing out 2 of 3 games in San Diego.

But I agree - where is the double standard?

Posted by: chris at February 5, 2007 05:36 AM
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