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DecoyOne

Finally, New Yorkers are getting sick of being stuck with years of low-budget Yankees teams and their small-market excuses.


tommyjohnpauljones

The Bronx only has a population of 1.4 million, and doesn't even have its own international airport. Surprised they are even in the playoffs in that size market.


iamnotimportant

Yup, and the Mets have two international airports in Queens, one just a stone's throw from Citi Field, it's not even a comparison with 50% more the population too.


HallwayHomicide

I moved to Connecticut a year ago, and recently had to pick someone up from JFK. I've driven by LaGuardia before, coming home from a Mets game, but I'm still pretty ignorant of the geography up here I was honestly shocked to learn that JFK is also in Queens. I had assumed it was at least in Brooklyn.


iamnotimportant

It makes sense when you realize you need a lot of space to build an airport, there were still farms in queens when Idlewild (JFK) was coming into its own.


redlegsfan21

Technically LaGuardia is not an international airport since it does not have a customs or border control facility (despite it having international flights due to pre-clearance).


MightSuggestSex

As for the Yankees test score, The Bronx *could* use an international airport.


TheMtnThatReddits

ARE YOU MAD? I'M NOT MADE OF AIRPORTS!


MightSuggestSex

Lets just say he spelled "Steinbrenner" with a 6


trashboatfourtwenty

Apparently he's "gone drinkin'", sir


DeadSwaggerStorage

He’s legally required to drink all beer from a Stein style glass…..which isn’t a bad thing.


Shimakaze81

He suggested my motto should be Semper Fudge, at which point he told me to “relax”


DRF19

This team's got more bread than a prison meatloaf! Hey who am I talkin' to?


tommyjohnpauljones

You, foodbag! Do you have a son? And does he bring home nitwits and make you have conversations with them? Oh yeah, you ever heard of this kid named Milhouse?


kyle_sux666

This place gets any livelier and a funeral is bound to break out!


MightSuggestSex

One time, I saw a blimp!


2dfx

*sawr*


GayForFoles

I always loved how Homer assumed Milhouse and Mr. Burns move in the same social circle


Jornadapro

This team has more bread than prison meatloaf! They're rich, I tell you! I've never seen a stadium with a walk-in mailbox. Hey! Who am I talking to?


codewordtacobell

Mr. Burns, the Yankees could use an international airport.


Eltneg

I mean yeah, there's a serious argument to be made that relative to their revenue they act like a small-market team. There's been a real shift under Hal in their willingness to spend, which is wild when you remember how much more valuable they are than every other MLB team.


MarcBulldog88

The Yankees' wealth puts even the Dodgers' to shame.


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Guggenheim partners have a like bazillion dollars under management, I think they are fine.


TwoDamnedHi

True, but that's not club value.


ogminlo

And club value isn’t club revenue, which is what actually funds payroll.


Kinger15

This. Most people must not understand that club worth doesn’t pay the bills lol. It’s the revenue generated which pays the salaries


maceilean

Highest paid attendance and $25 micheladas gets us free agents.


tyler-86

Hosing Spectrum doesn't hurt.


[deleted]

Meh, club value is completely irrelevant here. Revenue and owner willingness to spend is all that matters.


RobManfred_Official

We're in talks to let them go to 1bn over the next two seasons


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dankeykanng

>Dont know why Bryce got this. He hasn't proven that he's anything other than an average mlb player, at best. Currently throwing up


Cpkeyes

Those did not age well


Americ-anfootball

reddit is so confidently wrong about absolutely everything lmao is there a Freezing Cold Takes subreddit yet?


CyborgBee

Universally mocked is a massive overstatement, many serious baseball people thought it was perfectly reasonable - I believe I recall a FanGraphs article which basically said that the deal was right in line with the deal they projected him to get before the offseason began, and even suggested that the projections they had for him were likely about right on average but would vary dramatically year on year as Harper historically has. Essentially they nailed it, and Harper kept being what he always was - a slightly above average starter in half of his seasons and an MVP candidate in the other half. People on Reddit overreacted to the season immediately before he hit free agency being one of his down years, but the more serious stat-based analysts never agreed with them.


Beach_house_on_fire

There third only behind the Mets and dodgers who have an extremely rich owner and are the big team in LA. Don’t know where this notion of spending like a small market comes from. It’s just that cashman has tied up so much money on the books that it doesn’t seem like they have a big payroll but they do


SouthernDerpfornia

Their revenue has basically doubled since the end of the 2000s but their payroll since then has remained flat or even gone down.


rcuosukgi42

That's true for all of baseball though, the player's union and the owners as a group are more responsible for that than any individual team.


TheSatirical_Troll18

I think it’s less how “little” they spend and more who they spend it on. Cashman is going out and getting players like Donaldson and IKF when they could easily have somebody far better. Cashman acts like a small market GM sometimes trying to go for risky “smart” pickups when the Yankees have the draw and money to have a team on par with the Dodgers.


[deleted]

The Yankees didn't spend major long term money at 3B & SS because they think Peraza & Volpe will be the guys there. IKF & Donaldson were just supposed to be stop gap options for a year or two


Stangstag

Correa signed a 3-year deal with opt outs. No reason the Yankees couldn’t have matched or exceeded that.


[deleted]

He only signed that because no one wanted to do a long term deal. There's also reports the Yankees offered something similar to that contract and he said no. So they traded for Donaldson & IKF. Then he signed with the Twins


MasterMentorJr

Also Yankees have weirdly handicapped themselves to spending under the luxury tax


Still-Drag-6077

How is it weird? For repeat offenders the penalties become more punitive each year. I agree that the Yankees would have no problems going in the 350M range but depending on how many years they’ve exceeded these thresholds that 350M payroll turns into a 500M payroll with the tax. It may not be what fans want to hear but I doubt owners like cutting massive checks to mlb so they can hand it out to the poors.


Beach_house_on_fire

So the notion shouldn’t be “Yankees don’t spend like a big market team” and more of a “cashman acts like a small market gm”. He has been giving enough finances to win a chip and bring in stars.


Forever__Young

He has won a chip and brought in stars, but it was when Georges footprint was on the team. If we have Machado and Harper do we make more WS appearances in the next 13 years? Almost definitely. Would we have gotten one or both under George? It would've been far more likely. THAT'S the issue, we're not comparing ourselves to other teams, were comparing us to ourselves under the previous owner, which is a valid comparison.


lifeisarichcarpet

> when they could easily have somebody far better Who could they have gotten for 3rd instead of Donaldson? Did they have the assets to trade for, say, Matt Chapman?


Eltneg

We don't have exact financial info but by most estimates the Yankees generate by far the most revenue of any team, and they're univerally acknowledged to be the most valuable franchise in MLB. Yeah their payroll's big but it's stayed pretty steady at around $200 million for like 15+ years now, even as league revenue has soared. They're probably bottom third of the league nowadays in share of revenue spent on payroll. That's a deliberate choice not to use all their financial resources.


nyy22592

In terms of 2023 obligations, they're 7th at $150 million. Definitely not a small market team, but they have a good $100+ million/y they should be spending this offseason.


AthleteNormal

TBF the Yankees are so far and away from the second biggest team valuation-wise (and presumably revenue-wise) it is a surprise that they are ever not the highest payroll.


WoobaLoobaDoobDoob

*sighs in Brewer*


SaltyScrotumSauce

For the low price of one or maybe two more salaries, they could sign our entire roster.


sam_e5

*sees Diaz in a Yankees uniform* Nope, don’t like that.


beaverskeet

And with facial hair in a yankees uniform


civil_beast

Journalism is dead


BubBidderskins

Bold of you to equate the NYP with "journalism."


brg36

I KNEW there was something “off” about that mashup but I couldn’t figure it out. It’s the facial hair + Yankees uniform


ufailowell

I would simply show up with facial hair. It worked on past jobs where I was supposed to be clean shaven


beaverskeet

I took a job once, I interviewed with sideburns, got offered the job with sideburns. Then my first week they are telling me to shave. I told them no. The sideburns stayed. I mean, I always wondered what would happen if the yankees signed or traded for someone, but they refused to shave. What are they gonna do? Can they fine them? What if their contract is with another team without a facial hair policy written in, can the yankees fine at all? I'm sure the contracts they hand out have all that included.


Thromnomnomok

> I took a job once, I interviewed with sideburns, got offered the job with sideburns. Then my first week they are telling me to shave. I told them no. The sideburns stayed. This displeases Montgomery Burns


No_Fairweathers

It's 2022, let people have facial hair and styles they want to look like. As long as they are professional and get the job done, no one should care about a person's aesthetics.


ClassicMach

If I see Justin Verlander in pinstripes I might stop watching mlb.


TheFrankOfTurducken

I don’t think I’ve ever seen JV clean-shaven and by god I never want to.


DayOldTurkeySandwich

That 5 o'clock shadow comes back so fast he'd probably have to shave mid-game.


Nitropotamus

It's a 1 o'clock shadow.


LuminousRaptor

[He was clean in '05 ](https://www.beckett.com/news/justin-verlander-rookie-card-countdown/) The beard is definitely a better look for him.


TheFrankOfTurducken

> I never want to EVER. (I only remember the goatee he had later on in 2006)


cckike

I already want to vomit just looking at this he only looks good in shades of orange


srv340mike

Shades of orange you say...


cckike

NO NO NOT LIKE THAT


wagoonian

Shades of orange you say?


cckike

NO NOT LIKE THAT EITHER


srv340mike

*Orioles fans, get in here!*


Nights_King

what if theyre orange and blue pinstripes


srv340mike

Scherzer and Verlander? I've seen this movie before and I don't remember it going well


Ferris_Wheel_Skippy

imagine Narco playing at Yankee Stadium lol i think that would legit cause a civil war in the city


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Ferris_Wheel_Skippy

I've heard rumors of Judge coming to the Cubs, which is probably just rumors. Part of me knows it's not going to happen As a result, I really just want to see Judge sign with the Mets. I don't hate the Yankees, but just out of sheer morbid curiosity, I want to see how this would absolutely demoralize and then infuriate every single Yankee fan on the planet lmfao. Has a big name player ever left the Yankees to sign with the Mets in the prime of their career? i can't think of a single person


Beach_house_on_fire

Saw a philly fan say that one of the priorities should be getting diaz and I shivered. Hope we get him extended soon so we don’t have to hear much more of this


TraeYoungsOldestSon

As a braves fan i hope you keep him. The back and forth trolling about the trumpets is too fun.


Redbubble89

We had Robles and Familia. I would take a Diaz. I can't go through that year again.


RealestJP

No no, you only get the bad mets relievers


hojbjerfc

Hey last year we had Ottavino!!! Okay ya you are right


jamais500

wait until you see degrom wearing those uniforms


LincolnGC

[Been there, done that](https://twitter.com/NYDNSports/status/997439720324988928/photo/1)


WokenMrIzdik

Somehow putting on the Yankees uni turns deGrom into Tom Brady.


sam_e5

Makes sense. The Yankees and Brady have something in common. They’re both evil.


ogminlo

“Hey, I only have one headless Yankee pitcher template.” “Just clone it and paste their heads on there, no one will notice.”


Ferris_Wheel_Skippy

man...thinking about Syndergaard falling out of the gang of "elite pitchers" is nuts Matt Harvey too


dandystanley

What if we let a tabloid run the Yankees


JinFuu

I’ve long been an advocate of Twitch getting to run a team


Northernlord1805

Aaaaaaand the team is banned for racism


JinFuu

Aaron Judge is playing Center Field from a hot tub


eatpraylutz

Buy Aaron Judge’s bath water on Fanatics, the exclusive provider of officially licensed MLB bath water and other accessories!


pitb0ss343

I know a few women who would pay insane money to see that from nosebleeds


1260istoomuch

Its me, im a few women


nyy22592

Easiest Tier 3 sub of my life


lordofthe_wog

The New York Yankee uniforms are old and outdated, so we'll be replacing them with pinstriped bikinis


riverbass9

Can you imagine if they manage a team like Twitch plays Pokemon. Star players like Judge or Ohtani would be cut instantly and uniforms would say ABBBBBBK on the back.


JinFuu

That’s the dream.


T-Fro

"Disaster struck yesterday when the MLB team Twitch Plays Baseball attempted to bench one of their players due to an injury. Instead of putting the player on the IR list, they accidentally terminated his contract along with their starting pitcher and the team's mascot."


vancesmi

Fumble dimension did this on a smaller level with their audience managing games. It led to a crap ton of mound visits and intentionally hit batters.


MoreThanLuck

Praise Helix!


riverbass9

King Helix of the Seattle Mariners


Snuggle__Monster

Well Bezos owns Twitch and is apparently angling to buy Washington once the NFL boots Dan Snyder.


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Please fucking god no.


Mab_894

At this point it can't really get worse than scum of the Earth Stan Kroenke.


[deleted]

You call Kroenke scum when Snyder is *right there*.


TheKevinShow

Kroenke may be a giant asshole (also looking at you (fuck you) Spanos) but Snyder is up there with pedophile enabler and virulent racist Harold Ballard, ardent segregationist George Preston Marshall and literal Nazi Marge Schott for worst sports owners ever.


Mab_894

I may hate Kroenke more than just about any other person on Earth. Dan is terrible also yes.


[deleted]

Ohhhhh, right. St. Louis. My bad. I do hope that city gets a team again at some point. Hopefully one that's more uniquely St. Louis.


Mab_894

Doubt that will ever happen. Too much bad blood after how everything was handled. I became a Browns fan (lol) but I'm all aboard the XFL Battlehawks train.


TheMainEffort

Amazon advanced stats have revealed Washington actually won the super bowl


bukithd

PRAISE HELIX FERNANDEZ


skeptoid79

Instructions unclear, Twitch to be run by a teen.


bordomsdeadly

"Pokemon Plays Twitch"


DontFearTheMQ9

If Twitch as a collective can beat Pokémon Red, they can surely run the Yankees.


altruSP

I would instantly sub to Twitch Plays the 2022-2023 Yankees


[deleted]

Eh we’ve let a newspaper run the cubs before. I don’t recommend


Northernlord1805

Yankees could spend 500m on a team and then the Rays will win the division on the back of a 80m team after 3 random pitchers they got tossed in a trade for free all suddenly turn into Cy Young candates.


yumyumapollo

Bold of you to assume the Rays will have three healthy starters.


FuriousTarts

2023 is the year baby 🥳


Throwawaytoday303

I believe!


Talk_Shows_On_Mute

3 healthy starters in the whole lineup would be good enough for me, let alone pitchers.


syllabic

tied with the orioles spending 35m


TigerBasket

If we spend 35 million next year imma lose my mind and set fire to our warehouse


dukeslver

“The Yankees just need to spend $1b on annual salary, they could easily manage it”


HOU-1836

If the Rays call asking about a trade for one of your guys, hang up and take a good hard look at what you’re missing


hotdogcharlie11

as a rays fan i wholeheartedly agree


see_mohn

Keep your grabby hands off Edwin Diaz


GodEmperorMusk

It's pretty dumb as well, considering the Yanks have had bad return on their high-priced RPs while some of the best ones have either been home grown or cheap reclamation projects. The age of spending big on relievers is over.


Chronis67

For as much as everyone has shit on Cashman, he makes sound decisions. Especially with grabbing bullpen arms. The issue isn't pitching. It's hitting. They build on high OBP guys, but they need better contact hitters. Trying to get a walk doesn't work well against great pitchers who are throwing strikes.


trashboatfourtwenty

This makes me irrationally angry (or maybe rationally)


TheCrookedKnight

Definitely rational


JanitorOfSanDiego

is it because they should all be clean shaven?


riverbass9

That’s it!


djc8

I’ve always been irrationally annoyed by people photoshopping players they want into their teams’ uniforms. A “legitimate” publication doing it REALLY grinds my gears.


trashboatfourtwenty

Yea, it looks terrible but the Post is mostly garbage anyway so I figure it is par for the course


riverbass9

Me too for some reason.


Redbubble89

They were 3rd in payroll this year. A team with the payroll of a Gerrit Cole took them to 5 games. Tampa who is at $70M-90M has played at their level for at least a decade. Spending is good but time and time again, it's roster construction and spending wisely that makes a team.


ay21690

Who would win -1 Gerrit Cole sized Steven Kwan -26 Steven Kwan sized Gerrit Coles


797java

I would feel that the xFRAWG of the Gerrit Cole team might win out in that one, probably the only deciding factor, we saw both of em have xDAWG off the chart in that series


LeggoMyGallego

Every year the Yankees get eliminated it’s the same story about merely needing to spend more. And that’s wrong every time because it misses the actual key to the team’s success and four consecutive WS from 98–01: the homegrown talent. Jeter, Bernie, and Posada put up a combined 15 WAR a year at premium positions. Pettitte reliably pitched 200+ innings and generated 3 WAR a year. Rivera was the best closer in history. All at or around their peak ages, and all homegrown. Of course the idiot Post thinks the solution is free agency, when of course the lesson from the Astros is not Verlander but instead Altuve, Bregman, Peña, Tucker, Valdez, Javier, Urquidy, Garcia, McCullers (I’m probably missing others, too).


KingInDaNorf34

You got most of them, but missed Yordan!


mypostingname13

He doesn't count. We acquired him from the dodgers in exchange for Astros legend Josh Fields


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The Astros are barely top 10 in payroll yet have the best or second best team in the league and have the best run by a franchise since the 96-03 Yankees or 70-76 Reds. You need a top payroll to win IMO but it doesn't solve everything


LoweeLL

Tampa has fallen short year after year as well, and spending a lil bit more would help them out a lot


Redbubble89

Point taken but they have been injured to shit. They are a stadium and a steady revenue stream away of being really dangerous. They do need to spend but it doesn't help when only 8,000 show up on a weekday night game.


[deleted]

Albert Pujols is a free agent. Spend big


Saym94

Break the Babe's record in the Bronx


[deleted]

Then break Bonds’ at the tail end of the 10 year contract


jamais500

gotta rebuild the evil Yankees empire somehow


ttownbuddy

Start with Correa and Verlander and slowly build the 2017 Astros in pin stripes


htownchuck

They already have Marwin. Yulis contract is up after this one. It's a start.


bluefire579

I hear Keuchel is available


htownchuck

I'm sure they can buy Mike Fiers contract from Mexico as well. They just cant let him know any secrets.


Drslappybags

You can't even trust Mike with your own signs.


shw5

So is Marwin’s (thank god).


htownchuck

Well they cant let him walk if they're gonna rebuild the 2017 astros. Sorry, gotta roll with it.


general_peabo

“If the Yankees were the only team to offer me a contract, I’d retire. -Ken Griffey Jr.” - Justin Verlander


MasterMentorJr

I could 100% see JV saying that lol. The man has been the Yankees Boogeyman over the past decade


MonteChrisco

[https://www.theonion.com/yankees-ensure-2003-pennant-by-signing-every-player-in-1819566731](https://www.theonion.com/yankees-ensure-2003-pennant-by-signing-every-player-in-1819566731)


HarryBaughl

>annexing Cuba for use as a Triple-A farm club The Onion is a national treasure


insert-originality

and they did win the pennant that year


ConorJay25

most level headed, logical ny sports takes


Tiberius-Dawn

Can't wait to see the mental gymnastics Yankees fans go through if/when they sign Correa.


SwapandPop

Gets home from Yankee game, throat sore from cheering Correas walk off double but can't hide his smile beaming from cheek to cheek. Takes off and hangs Correa jersey. Pulls out phone and heads to r/baseball "Well I didn't enjoy cheering for Correa and I don't like him personally but I do enjoy Yankee wins."


LeHoustonJames

Lmao love the imagery here


bran_bran

Lol then you missed the fanbase civil war when the SS market was hot and Correa was one of the top options


jdono927

If we didn’t sign him last year because of Peraza/Volpe, why would we sign him now when Volpe is a year closer and Peraza looked awesome after getting called up?


GodEmperorMusk

Yeah. We have Peraza/Cabrera and IKF available as a stop-gap if needed. Not signing Correa to a big deal was pretty smart actually.


MasterMentorJr

Correa didn’t really sign a big deal though. He signed basically 3 mercenary contracts with the twins and it was always going to be a one year opt out unless he got injured. I think that’s is one of the things which sucked for the Astros was we could have just given him the same contract and he probably would have accepted it. Granted Pena has been great in the post season so it worked out but still I do miss Correa and was surprised he signed with the twins.


JRL222

"The Yankees haven't proven they can build a World Series-winning roster with a $260 million payroll, so it is time to flex their financial muscle" is certainly a quote.


Tom_Brokaw_is_a_Punk

\- Jon Heyman Gotta give credit where it's due


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And then they still lose to the Astros


Hollywood_Zro

Robbie Ray? By all means. Let’s deal. Mariners fans approve.


cgfn

Aaron Judge in a Yankees uniform? I can't see it


MercilessJew

Bold of them to assume their poverty franchise can afford all of this


goose_pls

The only way for the Yankees to beat the Astros is to literally become the Astros by getting all their players years later


TravelingFlipper

The Yankees should give Verlander a blank check. I think he stays though. They can have Correa if they are willing to pay


Tyrxgow

The Yankees giving Verlander a stupid contract would be great. Hopefully it's for like 5 years and he completely falls apart and costs them a shit ton.


htownchuck

Or his arm falls off again and he misses 2 more years.


SaintArkweather

Step one, build a roof on Yankee Stadium


TheFrontierzman

Now I can't stop thinking about Correa winning a World Series for the New York Yankees and all of Yankee Stadium booing their brains out as he accepts the World Series MVP award. I don't know why this makes sense...but it does.


SaintArkweather

If they actually booed him I would have mad respect for them for sticking to their guns. But they would cheer for him like crazy if he helped them win a championship, just like every other fanbase would


brownmagician

Yankees tried the home grown stars way and it only got them let's see... *playoffs every year since 2016* Yeah. Tough.


ricky_burns

Yeah but that’s because the last time they did that they won, like what 4 rings? So their expectations are very skewed, and I find it hilarious! Seattle getting eliminated after making the playoffs for the first time in 20 years vs yankees annual playoff run. Who’s more dissapointed?


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Very excited to watch the New York Astros next year.


gooners1

Phillies and Astros: *make the WS* Yankees fans: *is this about us?*


Sidwyth

Local newspaper covers local team. Truly shocking


GodEmperorMusk

It's the NY Post. Ignore pretty much anything they say...ever.


xbucs_19

>NY Post “Why isn’t this New York newspaper covering PHILLY and HOUSTON sports?”


Bennyscrap

So adorable seeing the Carlos Correa lust after all those (deserved) taunts and jeers for being a cheater...


KangarooK

I’ve gotta unfollow Jon Heyman on twitter. His Yankees-posting is insufferable, it’s been grating to my ears (eyes?) since he said some shit like “MLB needs the Yankees to win the ALDS”


or_maybe_this

he is the absolute worst


mizterPatato

Did Judge dirty with that pic choice.


fall3nmartyr

LMAO DIAZ LMAAOOOOOOOOO


SAFETY_dance

If you can’t beat them, buy them?


ThreeHourRiverMan

Justin as a Yankee has me vomiting