Happy happy, joy joy, Yankees close out season in defeat to modest Texas Rangers

It is no secret how I feel about the New York Yankees.

It was not enjoyable watching the Yankees head towards the American League playoffs as the season closed out, though I did take comfort in their poor September performance. After the Bronx entry in the American League of Professional Baseball Clubs crushed the Minnesota Twins, the prospects of another Yankee appearance in the World Series loomed large.

My hope for Yankee elimination dimmed when the Rangers blew a 5-1 lead in the first game of the American League championship Series.

Thankfully the Rangers got it together and not only defeated the Yankees, but humiliated them in the process.

The Rangers opening day payroll was 27th at $55,250,545, the SF Giants were 10th at $97,828,833.

The Yankees were tops of course at $206,333,389, almost 50% more than  the payroll of the 3rd ranked Chicago Cubs, who cannot win no matter what they try.

There is justice.

Dollars spent per regular season win:

Yankees $2,172,000

Rangers:  $614,000

Cubs: $1,958,000 (sorry Zweifel)

Comments

[Davin Pickell]

Paul,

You will make my father a very happy man when he is informed that you are an avid Yankees-hater, too. He and I are Red Sox fans, and also fans of whichever team is playing the Yankees that day.

Thank you, sir, for helping bring him joy even in a less-than-stellar Sox season.

[Ex-pat Cheesehead]

As a displaced Cheesehead here in Yankeeville (though I grew up a Cubs fan, thank you Ernie Banks for being a classy guy who led me to a life of despair...) the best line I've heard about teh Yankees / Rangers series was:

"Well, it took a few years, but at least A-Rod finally helped the Rangers make it to the World Series."

[Davin Pickell]

Brilliant, Ex-pat, brilliant!!

I was a Cubs fan for a stint in my youth, having spent a few childhood years living in Chicagoland. My father had instilled in me a Red Sox thing from infancy, so that love still beats strong in my heart.

I do have fond memories, though, of watching Cubs games from the Wrigley bleachers as a high school student, and yelling very loud obscene things at Darryl Strawberry in right field. I can't repeat those obscene things here. ;)