Yankees and the will to lose.

[grasshopper]

Im ok with 5 years for Sabathia and maybe 5 for Texeira, but 8 and 8 and 5 for Burnett. Burnett has never proven himself at all. He starts going and gets hurt every time. Havent they learned that they have to deal with ARod when he is 41?

I dont know where to start. If Phillip Hughes were on Pittsburg he would start every day so he could get experience no matter an ERA of 6.57 or whatever. The next year, he would get better.

The Yankees have spent over a BILLION dollars since ARod became a Yank and nothing to show. When will they ****ing learn to promote players they already have? Why dont they just get rid of their minor league system altogether to save a buck. Man I am pissed off at the state of the MLB.

[HoustonGM]

The "state of MLB"?

It sounds more like you're just pissed off at the Yankees signing high-priced free agents.

Who do the Yankees have besides Phil Hughes (who was bad in the minors last year too) that you think they should give shots instead of signing more stable (and better) options like Tex, Sabathia, and Burnett?

[grasshopper]

I would rather give some young guys a shot and sign lesser players.

I am a Yankees fan. We have a new stadium paid with NY taxpayer money. Prices have gone up 20-30% from the already highest cost ticket team. I can choose a family of 4 for 1 game at the stadium or a trip to Florida . Seriously getting closer in price.

Damn right I am pissed off.

[HoustonGM]

I would rather give some young guys a shot and sign lesser players.

So you'd rather the Yankees be a worse team?

I am a Yankees fan. We have a new stadium paid with NY taxpayer money. Prices have gone up 20-30% from the already highest cost ticket team. I can choose a family of 4 for 1 game at the stadium or a trip to Florida . Seriously getting closer in price.

Damn right I am pissed off.

You have it backwards. The Yankees signing these players aren't why the prices are so high. The prices being so high and the fans still gobbling it up is what gave them the money and enabled them to spend it.

[michaelg123789]

Take the trip to Florida imo.

[HoustonGM]

Take the trip to Florida imo.

If you're truly pissed about the Yankees signing great players, that'd be the best option, along with not paying for anything Yankee-related again. It's your support that gives them the money to sign these players. If you are pissed about it, your only option to show that is to stop supporting the team monetarily.

[200tang]

If you are pissed about it, your only option to show that is to stop supporting the team monetarily.

Houston is putting his grand plan in to motion I see

[HoustonGM]

lol, what grand plan would that be?

[200tang]

Stage 1 of Operation Diamondback

[HoustonGM]

Hah.. not so much

[michaelg123789]

I'm not pissed about them signing players, as much as the cost of tickets.

But it's a supply and demand thing, so not much anyone can do about it.

[JayC]

Im ok with 5 years for Sabathia and maybe 5 for Texeira, but 8 and 8 and 5 for Burnett. Burnett has never proven himself at all. He starts going and gets hurt every time. Havent they learned that they have to deal with ARod when he is 41?

And... so what? Haven't you learned anything from being a Yankees fan?

Suppose Burnett flames out after this season. Yeah the Yankees get stuck paying him. That doesn't change anything at all about how they approach everything else. Look at the Pavano experience, what does that teach you? Did having to pay him while he basically never played impact at all on anything else the team did?

The Yankees aren't going to steer away from spending money on any player they can get just because they have some other payroll obligations. I don't really understand why some Yankee fans and NY journalists complain about them getting tied to whatever contract it happens to be at the time. Look, it doesn't matter. They have the money.

And like HoustonGM said, it's completely backwards to think that the team's payroll is the reasons tickets cost what they do. The team spends money because it makes money. Do you think that if they didn't sign Sabathia, Texiera, and Burnett during this off season they would have cut ticket prices because they didn't need all that cash?

[filihok]

And like HoustonGM said, it's completely backwards to think that the team's payroll is the reasons tickets cost what they do. The team spends money because it makes money. Do you think that if they didn't sign Sabathia, Texiera, and Burnett during this off season they would have cut ticket prices because they didn't need all that cash?

Is it backwards or is it forward thinking. A team COULD set ticket prices to more accurately reflect their expenses and to get less profit.

Baseball, as much as I love it, is just another institution designed to concentrate money in the hands of fewer people.