"Maybe Cashman was being cheeky, but it’s a bad look. Say what you
will about the Yankees — and everything possible has been — they are the
big boys on the block, in the Big Apple and in our pastime. The Yankees
are so bit that only a team from the NFL (the Dallas Cowboys) is worth
more, at $4 billion. Everything about the Yankees, from their history,
to the names burned in our collective history, to their opulent new
stadium and the prices to sit in said stadium is outsized.
The Yankees are so burned into the sports vernacular that Vince
Lombardi’s first goal as head coach was to make his Green Bay Packers
the New York Yankees of football. When tourists return from a trip to
New York and either complain or marvel at the size and speed of
everything, that’s what the Yankees represent, the mythology of money
and skyscrapers and the House That Ruth Built."
Jeez, pal. He's just trying to take the pressure off.
Why? Because, in case you hadn't noticed, everyone wants to be the underdog.
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