Chris18 wrote:
Gregorius, Bird, etc as well. When they won 4/5 in the late 90s, they had built up the right way too (Jeter, Posada, Pettite, Rivera...), but people jumped all over them for trading for a guy like Paul O'Neil. Who wouldn't??? You build up your team to a point where you can deal from a position of power. I mean, it's kind of like the Avalanche having Roy fall into their laps when they'd had Sakic and Forsberg already, then added Bourque... Were they assholes for taking those guys? Or going for a championship?
Oh I freely admit an organization run by Pierre Lacroix and sporting Patrick Roy and Claude Lemieux might be called a bit dickish.
Believe it or not I actually loved the Torre-era Yankees. And my two favorite players on those teams were Scott Brosius (a guy more of less discarded by the A's I think it was, then had a Larry Murphy-like resurrection in NY) and Chuck Knoblauch.
I'm not truly mad at the Yankees. Not their fault a elite talent suddenly became available for ridiculously cheap and he had full control where he got to go. But I am mad at MLB for continuing the sham that is the Florida/Miami Marlins when they should've been folded/moved ages ago. This is, what, the third fucking time they've undergone a massive fire sale of assets? And then they allow from one shifty-as-hell owner to an even-shiftier-as-hell owner, and somehow Derek Jeter gets suckered into being the very public face of this.
Just an ugly situation all-around and while it's good for the Yankees, it's lousy for the game.