Oct 07 2011

2011 AL Playoffs- Tigers at Yankees Game 5

It’s kind of easy to dump on the Yankees because they are the most expensive team in the biggest market.

The problem with that kind of thinking is that it doesn’t recognize the most important part of professional athletics which is that these teams are not businesses in the traditional sense (profits, losses, dividends, shareholders) but rather gigantic masturbatory ego advertisements for billionaires like Lamborghinis and yachts, the next best thing to Potlach bonfires of cash.

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Say what you like about George and the machine he built, at least he put his money where his mouth was and invested in producing winners instead of milking every last dime he could out of gullible rubes.

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  1. Coverage on TBS at 8 pm ET.

  11. I don’t know why they’re showing pictures of Times Square.  It’s miles from the Stadium.

  15. Sturm und Drang.

  16. I have no idea what good this does.  If he was a Tiger killer he would have won his game instead of losing it.

  17. Brilliant!

  19. Sabathia as ineffective and unintimidating as he’s always been.

  24. You can skip this part.

  25. Barely on key. Terrible

  30. You don’t need a Grand Slam here.  A 2 RBI Single would do quite nicely (bases loaded 1 out down 2).

  31. What was it I said about Freshwater Economists?

  35. Perhaps it would be crass to point out there are a mere 6 outs left.

  36. We can confidently expect Mariano to start the 9th.

  38. What did I tell you?

  39. Freshwater Economists.

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