Podcast Episode 94 Football replaced baseball as America’s favorite sport long ago. But, try as the Dallas Cowboy have, they have yet to replace the New York Yankees as the team Americans most love to hate. The way their season played out this year explains why. Listen.
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MLB Suspends Josh Donaldson for Calling Tim Anderson ‘Jackie’
A racist incident blew up at Yankee Stadium on Saturday between Josh Donaldson of the Yankees and Tim Anderson of the White Sox. It threw into stark relief why football has replaced baseball as America’s favorite pastime. Not to mention the perfectly compelling reasons I provided recently in “Another Baseball Lockout as Pecan Pie Dethrones… Read more.
Redux: October Woes Continue for the Yankees. Time to Play ‘Moneyball’
Truth be told, this title does not do justice to the groundhog-day nature of what has become the New York Yankees’ fall classic of futility. But you don’t have to be a baseball fan to marvel at this curious thing: Never before in the field of professional sports has a team paid so much to… Read more.
October Woes Continue for the Yankees. Time to Play ‘Moneyball.’
Trust me, you don’t have to like baseball to marvel at this curious thing: never before in the field of professional sports has a team paid so much to win so little. New York’s season-ending defeat to the Houston Astros in the American League Championship Series on Saturday means that for the first time since… Read more.
Forget World Series, Yankees Can’t Even Win/Buy Birth into Playoffs
The New York Yankees have replaced the Dallas Cowboys as the “America’s Team” people love to hate. Of course, Yankees fans would be reveling in this hate if their team were still playing the way it did between 1996 and 2000, when the Yankees won four World Series championships. Instead, they’ve played like such losers since… Read more.
Baseball Suspends A-Rod, Its Half Billion-Dollar Man
After months of suspense, Major League Baseball finally announced yesterday that Alex Rodriquez (aka A-Rod) is headlining a list of 13 players being suspended for violating the league’s drug policy. They were all ensnared by their illicit association with Biogenesis – a steroids lab in Miami masquerading as an anti-aging clinic. All of the players… Read more.
Tigers Sweep Yankees Out of Playoffs
Last night the New York Yankees (with a team payroll of almost $200 million) showed themselves, once again, to be the biggest and most expensive losers in the history of professional sports. Specifically, they failed in their quest to win another World Series in humiliating fashion when the Detroit Tigers (with a team payroll of less… Read more.