EagerBeaver wrote :
"It should be noted that the Yankees of Horace Clarke, et al were not owned by George Streinbrenner who took over in 1973 after the Yankees had already started to hit rock bottom. And it is noteworthy that the Yankees did not go to World Series between 1981 and 1996, despite having some good teams in that period, mainly because of bad free agent pitching acquisitions like Eddie Whitson, Dave LaPointe, Andy Hawkins and Steve Trout, just to name a few."
Thanks for pointing that out E.B. If i recall correctly those were the C.B.S years. The network bought the team and basically
let the veterans retire and replaced them with subpar players
from the farm system. I 'm not versed in the particulars of manager picther relations on the hill but it seems to me that something so drastic should have elicited a request from Pedro
to be taking out of the game for the good of the team and all the
loyal Redsox fans. I'm sure if he said he had nothing left Little
would of been forced to remove him from the game. I think that
Pedro was so determined to finally beat the Yanks that it cost
his team a world series appearance. Pedro was the best pitcher
in the game and is still one of the top 3,but that doesn't justify
throwing away a season in which the Redsox had the best all around team in the game. I really hated the Boston teams of the
seventies and it was easy. But with guys like Nixon,Veritek you
got to respect this new team. The other thing that really infuriates me is the idea that A-rod being a Yankee is bad for baseball. But its O.k. for the Redsox to get Schilling(best free agent pitcher) , Foulke(Best free agent closer) and at the time
A-ROD(Best all around player). No one says a word. Now the Yankees get 1/3 of the trio and all of a sudden it's bad for baseball? And I love it when people say the Yankees buy championships. What team were they watching from 96-2000?
It was comprised of players nobody wanted and players indivually meant nothing. Trough good couching and management
they adopted the never say die attitude that made the chemistry
on the team so special. I mean come on (KEY,COHEN,GOODEN ,HERNANDEZ,HAYES,REINES,CURTIS,SEIRRA,GIRRADI,Boggs) Not much of an all-star team. Then add in the new additions (MARTINEZ,BROCIOUS) and something magical happens. Lets face it the big name acquisitions the Yanks have
made in the last 30 years were all dead ends except for Jackson
& Clemens. Names like (tartabull,Winfield, messena,giambi) all
great players but all have come up short. Yes the team has the highest payroll in baseball but a good amount is spent on good ole home grown talent. Even the well tooled baseball machine
like the '04 Yankees will find it almost impossible to duplicate
the feats of a bunch of journey men and home grown talent did
in those recent magical years of 96-2000. Really sorry for the ramblings and I apologize for my attitude in the former post
but I can't read this thread 100 times and just not comment
on some of the stuff that was said.
