Amazing but true! The Yanks, Red Sox and MARLINS account for EIGHT WS titles since '94 strike!

[charlie and algernon]

That's 8 out of the 14 World Series since the 1994 strike!

[TZ]

1. And only one of those teams

Isn't loathsomely sucky....;)

[Chan790]

2. Irony...

is when a Nats fan calls another baseball franchise "loathsomely sucky".

[TZ]

7. there is a difference

between plain old suckitude (Nats) and LOATHESOMELY sucky...translation obnoxious..Yanks and Sox...

[bigwillq]

3. And two of the three bought their teams.

Go Yanks! :bounce: :P ;) :)

[Chan790]

4. The Yanks haven't won a WS in this millennium.

Not surprisingly, neither have the Cubs.

[SoxFan]

5. "Bought their teams"?

Drafted and developed by the Red Sox:
Dustin Pedroia (you know, the reigning MVP and 2007 rookie of the year)
Kevin Youkilis
Justin Masterson
Jonathan Papelbon
Manny Delcarmen
Jacoby Ellsbury
George Kottaras


Accquired as a minor leaguer and developed by the Sox system:
Jason Varitek


Scrap-heap reclamation projects:
David Ortiz (waived by the Twins)
Tim Wakefield (cut by the Pirates)

Accquired via trade

Josh Beckett
Mike Lowell
Jason Bay

Only J.D. Drew, Julio Lugo and Dice-K qualify as expensive free agent pick-ups, and Lugo has been a bust.

[TZ]

8. So the second largest payroll behind the Yankees...

ISN'T buying a team? Okay....:rofl: Yanks and Soxs are mirror images of each other....

[SoxFan]

9. A lot of that salary is Manny Ramirez

Still on the books from a contract signed by the old ownership. They overpayed on Matsuzaka, but a lot of the key players on this Sox team aren't making huge dollars for their ability level. Papelbon, Pedroia, and Youkilis, all legitimate MVP candidates, are not even close to the top salaries for their respective positions.

[flvegan]

11. 2008 MVP Pedroia made what, $450k last year? I'm outraged

at how Boston bought their team.

:eyes:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. The 2003 Marlins weren't bought.

1997, that's another story.

You do remember the 2003 Marlins, right?

[SoxFan]

10. True

The rap is that they dumped good players to save money. Fortunately for them, when they gave up Beckett and Lowell, they received some good, young talent (Hanley Ramirez, Anibal Sanchez) in return.

[crimsonblue]

16. you might want to use a sarcasm emoticon...

Because surely you don't believe that the yankees develop their own talent. Unlike the Marlins, who have a sub $50 million payroll every year... or in other words, the Marlins have a payroll roughly 1/4 that of the Yankees, but yet have more WS titles this century. It must suck to be a silver spooned yankee fan these days, especially since the team cursed themselves by destroying the cathedral of baseball... is it any coincidence that the yankees haven't won a title since the new ballpark plans were finalized?

[KamaAina]

12. Proof positive that the '94 strike was when baseball jumped the shark

or in this case, the marlin.

I mean, really, two World Series for an expansion team?? Expansion teams are supposed to suck great big green rocks for a full generation before joining the ranks of legitimate teams (see under Seattle Mariners). Even the Blue Jays, with (almost) an entire country behind them, suffered through a full decade of abject suckitude.

Actually the worst offenders in this regard would be the Arizona upstarts, who not only built their team entirely of rent-a-players, but did so in 2001, just when everyone had turned their NY hatred down to Simmer, and get extra demerits for playing in a park with a swimming pool built into it. What would Kenesaw Mountain Landis have said? :eyes:

[charlie and algernon]

13. and the Marlins seem to built themselves a contender for a THIRD World series

[KamaAina]

14. That didn't come out quite right

"Third World Series" sounds like a FReeper's description of the World Baseball Classic. :P

[crimsonblue]

17. I remember the 01 WS like it was yesterday...

Didn't Rivera, the most fantastic pitcher to ever play baseball, blowing a 1 run lead in the 9th inning by giving up 3 hits and 2 runs, including the winning bloop single by Juan Gonzalez over the out-stretched hand of Derek Jeter. I guess you could say my Yankee's hatred simmered, but only because the douchebag team of baseball lost.

[KitchenWitch]

15. Go Fish!

:D