"The New York Yankees are the World Series champions."

The Bronx Bombers take it home, again. That's my boys.

Those guys win a lot. I guess they're one of the best teams in the world.

others need a chance to have at the title. a team that wins so much just kills the business of everyone else, of course it also makes an underdog victory very sweet.

Baseball needs a salary cap. I've said it for years. Basketball has a cap (a HIGH one), football has a cap... every sport has a cap, pretty much. Baseball doesn't, though. f*ck the Yanks.

Yeah seeing as the WORLD series is played only in the US.

Well, Karr, while they have won more championships in their sports league than any other team in any other sport in America, you've got to consider that because it's baseball it's been happening over the course of a very long period of time. The team in its current manifestation is almost a century old.
So it's very spread out, and they hadn't won the series in 9 years (which is kind of a long time for the yanks), which means that it's less like the Patriots hunkering down over the superbowl trophy.

Hyper - Might I suggest a good slur for them, then? Skankees.

Absolutely agree.

Yankees wouldn't be able to handle a salary cut if they implemented one. Right off the bat they would probably lose 2/3rd's of the team based on how outrageous some of them get paid so the yanks can take them off teams.

It's a surprise any team really comes close to touching them.

I believe the year the D-Rays went to the World Series (last year, actually), their whole team cost about the same as one or two Yanks. It's ridiculous.

http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playoffs/ ... id=4632491

Haha.

Idiots.. who actually cares to celebrate that much for something so trivial?

What isn't trivial and is worth celebrating?

i always thought that the game of baseball has gotten to bloated. Here's how I'd fix it:

First, 10 innings. Seems counter intuitive, but whoever strikes first strikes last, and that necessitates a lot of unnecessary follow up games. If you set it to 10 innings, then each team has an equal chance to score and that lets us move on to...

Second, 2 game elimination. Every other sport has this. It moves the season along and makes sure that it doesn't drag out for 9 FREAKING MONTHS. It's simple folks; you play each team ONCE and if you loose twice in your season your team is disqualified from further play that season. No frigging 9 game series, no playing the same team home and then away. Stop it.

Third, I like the pay cap idea. Should also be paid by the game, not the season, but I think that's actually going on depending on what the players' contract says, either way, it should be mandatory.

Finally, I'd stipulate that you can only get talent from the population of the city you represent. And no more selling teams.
A team should be owned by the people of the city it represents, and not some eccentric billionaire. This one kind of goes for all sports actually.

... just baseball?

And this is why you don't deal with sports. This isn't high school where you can only play where you live and are enrolled in school. Professional sports are a job, albeit, an over paid one. You go to whoever hires you and wants your talent. Do you stay in the same state/city to keep the job market and competition fair? No. You go where the best offers are and companies hire the best they can (or people they know). It goes that way in sports. You pick the best stock you can for the best price and hope or expect the wins.

As for your ten inning rule... what the f*ck are you talking about? Each team gets a chance to bat in each inning, unless you're the home team winning going into the bottom of the 9th. They do that because... why in the hell would you try to score more runs when in the bottom of the 9th, the last half of the last inning, when you've already won? 10 innings won't even change that. The other team had 9 rounds of at bats to win the game and failed when the home team batted 8 times. Changing the number of innings or regulation change NOTHING about the game. Where the hell did you come up with that stupid ass idea?

Next, tradition has been to play the game over an expansive amount of time. The game used to not be 162 games a year. It was in the 140s in the early 90s and 80s and possibly 70s, and even less before hand. Why all the games? I don't have an answer for that, but the increased games over a course of years is because of more teams being added to the league. ANd why play more series with teams throughout the season? For one, fans can enjoy the season for nearly a year, it makes pretty good money (not like it used to, though), and it's not a continuous hustle sport or a hard hitting sport. Most baseball injuries are groin, quadricep, hamstring, ACL/MCL/PCL, or rotator cuff injuries. Most of those injuries are recoverable in 30 days, some longer. But the extent of the season allows players to come back. And playing the same team at home then away is like any other sport. You play a home-and-home. You play on your turf, then you take them on on their turf. It's equal advantage.

And why pay by the day? Like I said before, it's a (salary) job, therefore you get paid a lucrative sum for an entire year. If you don't live up to expectations, you get traded or cut. You may not work a salary job, but that's what all athletes get paid. I'm just saying they need a salary cap so these guys don't get paid extreme amounts of money. Some of the highest paid NFL players don't even come close to the middle of the road baseball players. The cap is to ensure that each team has a fair payoff and can't have too many superstars on one team.

I think they need to up the scale of the fields, actually.

Too many games these days aren't decided on base running and fielding choices. They're all about the long ball where you see 3-5 homeruns in a single game because the field is exceptionally small.

I like how each field is pretty different relative to the next. I'm sure there are guidelines in place when building stadiums.. but the older stadiums need to be extended to compensate for the technology that goes into the bats, balls, and training of the players.