bjournal::juxtapoz

Ummm… the foremost guy for the Yankees, Hank Steinbrenner, chimed in on the Devil Rays/Yankees controversy, and subsequently pissed off every small-market teams (and probably some of the bigger ones he lumped in with the Yankees in some sort of unholy baseball alliance) by saying the following:

“I don’t want these teams in general to forget who subsidizes a lot of them, and it’s the Yankees, the Red Sox, Dodgers, Mets… I would prefer if teams want to target the Yankees that they at least start giving some of that revenue sharing and luxury tax money back. From an owner’s point of view, that’s my point.”

Sorry, what is your point? Since you seem pretty dim, Hank, I’ll explain it to you: the Yankees, as an organization, knowingly and consistently break the rules (spend beyond the salary cap, or slide spikes up), duly pay the price for them (pay the luxury tax, or get ejected), and ask the the teams that play by the rules also pay the price (give the luxury-tax money back, or have the player getting spiked be ejected).

That’s the most ridiculous statement you could possibly make. Much, MUCH worse than making no statement at all.

I used to be pretty neutral concerning your organization, merely focusing my hatred on Pay-Rod, but I now understand that the sickness is deep and that Pay-Rod is simply complicit in worst thing that ever happened to professional baseball: The Overspending New York Yankees. Until that changes, I will never watch a game featuring the Yankees without contempt for the organization as a whole. I am also really looking forward to watching the team fail to live up to expectations this year.

Note to Derek Jeter: get out while you can.