In the books

Susan:
Congratulations to the 2009 New York Yankees.

 

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Susan:
World Series Champions!

 

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Susan:
May you all get cancah of the balls.

 

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Comments

[PawsoxPop]

Don't Walk Away HB! It would seriously cut into everyone's Daily Adult Requirement of belly laughs!

"At least youse guys didn't have to ride on the commuter train into NYC today with a bunch of Yankee fans going to the parade. Thank God my company is in midtown now so I didn't have to ride the subway downtown also like I did in the '90s. That was truly revolting.

On the economic front, I like this analysis from SI.com today:

The Yankees are not a big-market team. They DWARF big-market teams. They are quantitatively different from every other team in baseball and every other team in American sports. They don't just spend more money than every other team. They spend A LOT more money than every other team. The Boston Red Sox spend $50 million more than the Kansas City Royals? Who cares? The Yankees spend $80 million more than the Boston Red Sox.

The Yankees have a pat hand."

Or to parphrase Rick Reilly on espn.com: So George Clooney got a girl. Paris Hilton slept in silk sheets. Bill Gates went to the bank. The Yankees won the World Series. Let's have a parade!

[h.b.]

LOL.

I do think it's true though that for me each year I get older I have less interest in pro sports.

And if the sport in question is made up of 5-6 teams that have money (and that includes the Red Sox) and the rest that don't, it just makes it that much easier to say, meh.

I've been feeling this for years actually. I just happen to be typing it into the comments today.

The dirty little secret (or perhaps it's not that much of a secret) is that the only remaining thread that connects me to the Red Sox and baseball is this creepy site.

I do the site because it makes me feel good (most of the time) and satisfies a creative need (most of the time).

That the site is about the Red Sox is just a coincidence for the most part these days.

To that end, then, I'm pretty sure I could do a site like "woodworkingaholix" and it'd probably be just as cathartic.

Though it'd also be undoubtedly more difficult. And as things go, I always take the lazy/easy path.

[Jeff in NC]

Rob - I think I like John better. Is that going to bother you as much as the fact that some people like the Red Sox more than the Yankees? Will John be able to say "I'm a Yankee Fan and proud of it" or will he have to cry like you when others like us don't declare the Yankees to be as lilly white as you need us to believe.

Good lord. Stop your bellyaching. The Yankees won. We still don't like them. Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

[Kaz]

John, I understand that the 90's were happier days for Yankees fans, but please, join us in the new millennium, would you? Boggs? Clemens? The *least* you could have done is mention Manny if you're going to talk about "run out of town" players. Yeesh.

[Jason O.]

Walk Away Renee by The Left Banke, what a great fucking song.

[Jason O.]

Walk Away Renee by the Left Banke, a great song.

[h.b.]

Or I could become a band wagon Yankees fan and start a new site.

I think I'd call it "reacharoundaholix.com"

[Rob]

Ha! "7 of 8 teams this post-season had a closer who didn't get the job done"

[Rob]

Kaz - I'm just waiting for the Sox to develop just one HOF player in the time it took the Yankees to develop Four. But who needs to develop players when you can just buy them? The Sox certainly didn't develop Manny and Pedro.

Problem is, your owner likes his money too much to even buy them any more. Your season could have been much different if he had. They had the money.

[h.b.]

Rob,

That argument has actually been presented by various Soxaholix characters oh, I dunno, 6-7 times this season alone.

And our fave pessimist commentator, Paddy24, probably said it a dozen times or more.

So if you really want to give us Sox fans shit, it might be helpful to be original and not parrot the same stuff we've said already.

Just trying to help you out, guy. I know big ideas can be tough for Yankees fans and all.

[Rob in CT]

um, EFF U, Rob. Ya frinckin' tool...

That is all.

[Jim]

When are these smug mfy fans going to realize that rational teams have limitations that are more than "what a rich owner" wants to spend? So what if John Henry has more money than God? That doesn't mean he's going to SPEND it all. Many owners buy a sports franchise or a restaurant or a pub for the enjoyment of it. But here's a little secret: they all want to make money, and lots of it. Face it mfy fans: since the days of Catfish Hunter, the yanks have been primarily building teams around high priced free agents, and less concerned with the development of their farm system players. Fact. They have by far the most resources to (market size) and justify spending the most however they like.

I agree with HB - it's getting a bit depressing when I think about the MLB haves and have nots. Of course this year's champs are above both of those categories.

One other thing - I'll bet Bob Kraft makes plenty of money as owner of the Pats, so don't worry about the owners in a salary cap environment. That would be a good thing for baseball, as it has been for football.

[Kaz]

New York Yankee fans: The only fans who can win it all...and still get butthurt.

[Natalie]

Oh Christ, there is nothing more insufferable than a fan of any team not acknowledging his own team's very human and corporate foibles. I always like to think the Sox and Yanks have more in common than they have differences (mostly because my awesome little brother is a Yanks fan), but when I see Rob/John come to this site and act like a total ignorant prat, my tolerance diminishes. Get a hobby? This asshole is on a Sox site posting? Who needs to get a hobby? And as for competitive balance, any retard on the short bus knows that the MLB is the least balanced sport right now. I don't begrudge the Yanks for money; we have it too. Fair win to them. I'd personally like to see a salary cap ala the NFL so it becomes a level playing field where you have limited resources to field a team within dictated parameters.

hb- take a break but don't be disallusioned. We are in hot stove. Potential is ripe. See you in the spring, hopefully.

[Rob]

And yet h.b. you still come back to beating the $ drum. In fact, I'd love to see how much Mahty and his big ole dollar sign have appeared relative to characters actually blaming your ownership. Then, of course, there are the knuckle draggers that frequent this joint. They've been reeeealll tough on ownership the last few days. There's one reason, and one reason only, the Sox lost this year. Their roster was horrid.

Guess, I know how you got to school, Natalie. Thanks for sharing! How about you name the number of different teams that have won championships (and made the playoffs) over the last 20 years in each of the three major sports? You'll learn something, if, you know, you're not retahded.

Great comeback, Kaz! See, it must burn, doesn't it? The Yankees not only outspend your team. They also do a much better job of developing talent.

Poor, poor, sad Sox fans. You complain about money when it's the Yankees cause that's all you got. You have nothing else.

[Rob]

And Jim, perhaps you can tell me why the 2009 Sox spent $40 million LESS than the 2007 version? Especially when the Sox clear $200 million in ticket sales alone?

[BigBri]

It's pronounced CankERRRRRRR! And we accept your congrats from the bottom of our swollen balls.

[madraider]

I'm gonna thank Allah for the two mass shootings that cycled the MFY world title purchase straight out of the mainstream media.

[h.b.]

// In fact, I'd love to see how much Mahty and his big ole dollar sign have appeared relative to characters actually blaming your ownership.//

Well, just for fun, and to prove I know my own site and my own characters better than anyone else in the world (just a hunch that), let's take a look at April of this year.

22 total strips in April

2 strips featured Marty (9%)

1 strip featured Marty with dollar sign building (5%)

5 strips feature characters disrespecting some facet of the Red Sox ballclub (23%)

Now where I went to school 23% is greater than 5%. And I'd be willing to bet a month's salary that those percentages will be roughly equal for any given month over the past 6 years.

So there you have it, a little thing we like to call quod erat demonstrandum, bitches.

Meanwhile, go ahead and continue to pile it on about any and all aspects of Red Sox suckitude.

But never ever presume that any reader, let alone an occasional pink Yankee hat passerby, knows the Soxaholix site better than its creepy omniscient overlord.

[louclinton]

fuck that rob guy. i'd say fuck bigbri, but he's already fuckt. Plus, I know his real name

[Jeff in NC]

Rob appears to be one of the dickheads that shows up at your gathering of friends and just won't leave. everyone hates the fucker. He is completely loud and obnoxious and full of his own shit but keeps hanging around. I hate guys like that.

At least BigBri actually plays WITH us and we have some fun. Rob is just a damn hemorhoid.

[Rob]

That solves it! April only! When every fan is complaining about what their team didn't do! Awesome analysis!

h.b. - you're better than that. The plain fact is, you guys want to piss all over the Yankees when you could have had a happier season had your owner actually acted in the interests of the team. $40 million extra in his pocket and you're still complaining about the Yankee payroll?

More to the point, your off-season is fucked because they didn't sign Teixeira. Sure, trade half the farm for a lesser player in A-Gon. He really was a no-brainer for Beantown and your owner fucked it up out of greed. Choke on that!

[madraider]

May I interject that Teixeira was going to join the All-Massengill team even if the Sox topped Massengill's offer because his wife has his balls in her purse and she and her family are Massengill fans.

[Rob]

Ah, yes, the standby that Teixeira only wanted to play for the Yankees.

Bullshit. Money talks. And the Sox walked away from the table in huff. Once they did, they made it EASY for the Yankees. Who's to say how much more the Sox would have had to bid, but they needed Teixiera more and so they should have bid accordingly.

None of you have told me yet where the extra $40 million went...

[h.b.]

Like I said, take any month.

Here is July 2009.

Total posts 24.

Posts with characters dissing Red Sox 9.

Posts with Marty 1.

Posts with Marty and dollar sign building 0.

And the 1 Marty post doesn't count because he gets in the better zingers.

So for those of you scoring this at home that is 38% to zero.

2009.07.30 Characters disrespect Red Sox
2009.07.29 Characters disrespect Red Sox, particularly the front office
2009.07.28 Characters disrespect Red Sox, particularly the front office
2009.07.27 Characters disrespect Red Sox, particularly the front office re Smoltz
2009.07.24 Doug and Arturo diss Red Sox offense
2009.07.23 Characterd dis front office over LaRoche acquistion
2009.07.22 Characters dis fronto office over Dice-K
2009.07.21 Chacters dis Theo mercillessly
2009.07.20 Marty appears, no dollar sign building, and Marty gets in better zingers than Bill
2009.07.10 Characters dis Red Sox for losing to bad teams

So the percentages in case you missed them.

38% vs 0%

QED. Again.

You may now genuflect in at the feet of the omniscient author and creator who knows the site and characters better than any being on the planet.

Let it be written, let it be said.

I may start referring to myself as Ramses.

[louclinton]

I haven't like the Ramses since Kurt Warner sopped playing for them. Now I root for the Patriotses

[buckner was framed]

I never liked Ramses either. More of a Trojans or Lifestyles man myself

[Rob]

Rames -

You need more loyal followers. They worship false idols.

May they find your true word.

Yahweh

[h.b.]

buckner,

I figured one of you creepy regulars would go that direction with it. Too funny.

[buckner was framed]

glad I didn't disappoint ;-)

[buckner was framed]

and besides, screw Ramses- if I were you, I'd call myself Ditka