Good for the Padres.

The Yankees are worth over $1.5 billion.

What lesson could the Padres possibly offer the Yankees with regards to professional baseball success on and off the field?

If the Yankees strove for more efficiency, they might make the World Series once every decade or so?:

"So my favorite race in baseball isn't the one between the Yankees and the Rays for the best record in the sport, it's the one between the Yankees and Bud Black's Padres. Coming into Thursday' [sic] play, the standings in that two-team race looked like this:

Yankees 74-46.

Padres 72-47."

For one thing, that's a three-team race, you retard. You even listed all three teams.

For another thing, you forgot your apostrophe s.


Bad editing aside, this is truly an incredible thing to say. Mike Lupica is more interested in an imaginary Lupica-Land race than in the actual professional baseball divisional race, and he publicly admits to this.


Oh, and the Yankees' best cost-cutting measure was their refusal to sign your Boyfriend Johnny Damon.

I think I've discovered hypocrisy in Mike Lupica's thought patterns.

For instance, if you really think the Yankees' inability to win the WS for nine seasons was inexcusable due to their high payroll, then how can you defend Joe Torre's managerial tenure during seven of those season? What, it was all Kevin Brown's fault?


"The fact that the Yankees have only won once since 2000 after having spent a couple of billion dollars on players and revenue sharing and luxury taxes remains one of the most amazing baseball statistics of all time, up there with Joe DiMaggio's streak, or Cal Ripken's, and the size of Barry Bonds' head."

Very ignorant and embarrassing thing to say.

The most obvious logical hole here is that the Yankee revenue sharing and luxury taxes help teams like the Padres. Duh. Your arithmetic needs work, son.


Lupica really expects a high payroll team to win the World Series every year? Their inability to do so remains one of the most amazing baseball statistics of all time? He actually compares the Yankees' streak -- one which they made the World Series two times and made the playoffs almost every year -- to Dimaggio's hitting streak and Ripken's consecutive game streak?

It's beyond stupid. Lupica is saying the most successful sports franchise in history isn't successful enough.


If you really expect the Yankees to win the World Series every few years, you know nothing about baseball, baseball history, the playoffs, payrolls, the talent pyramid, free agency, luck, and a hundred other factors that would help explain professional baseball to a person who is supposedly trying to understand professional baseball.


God, I hope the Padres lose their next 30 games.