and what’s so hard to believe he thought about baseball as a teenager? i thought of this stuff all the time in my teens and my dad wasn’t the owner of the yankees.

he’s not saying that. he’s saying he doesn’t like the rules and the impact that the divisional format has on which teams make the playoffs. to point out a year that his team similarly struggled and similarly probably did not deserve to make the playoffs doesn’t refute his complaint at all. It isn’t unfair to criticize the rules. Agree with him or not, the sarcastic attempt to paint him as a hypocrite here IS unfair. We can argue the merits of reform, realignment, expansion, contraction…but that’s not what Pete did.

Revenue sharing isn’t so bad when it’s taxpayer-funded government entities doing the sharing.

Revenue sharing isn’t so bad when it’s Rich Papa passing what he built on to Little Silver Spoon. Talk about your accident of birth.

What a whiner.

In the meantime, kudos to the Rays for doing a whole lot with very little money, few fans, and a POS ballpark. I would agree, though, that revenue sharing should only be received up to some percentage of payroll. Pay to play. What the Marlins are doing is just criminal.

By the way, if you think Hank is bad, in Seattle the President of the club overrode the GM’s by nixing a trade of Washburn and by giving out a long-term contract to Kenji Jojima. I’d stay away from Seattle.

“IT IS HIGH! IT IS FAR! IT IS…. THONG!!!”

“It’s also funny to hear him talk about “the 1970s.” Hank was born in 1957, making him a teenager for most of the 1970s. But obviously he was thinking deep thoughts about the divisional setup as he spent his dad’s money.”

Nice! Even though teenagers have the most time to think about sports, they can’t possibly have cohesive thoughts about divisions in baseball, even though his dad was the owner! Nice one, Pete. Can we get another anti-Girardi post?

gayle said September 23rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm “As I said earlier one word…. Seattle”

I don’t know in which context you said “Seattle”, gayle, but IT’D BE APPROPRIATE ONLY when the Yankees have to fly 55,000 to 65,000 air miles back and forth across the country LIKE THE MARINERS DO for what those idiotic season schedulers routinely force onto them — an inordinate number of one and two-team road trips, instead what they SHOULD be getting, more 10-day or 2-week trips that includes 4 teams.

No, it’s the Yankees and other Platinum Card MLB teams that get that kind of treatment.

It’s time the West Coast teams secede from MLB, and let the AL East teams fight it out amongst themselves. That way the West Coast teams would only have to worry about 2 time zones, not 3.