What was the point?

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So you’re saying the Boss didn’t like winning?

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So?
1. Please post the CBS ownership record.
2. Post W-L for any team that a better record from 1980 to 1995.
3. Amateur draft started in 1965. Before that, the Yankees drafted the best players because they could. They also had the St. Louis Browns and Kansas City Athletics as providers of talent too.

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Having been age 8 through 24 I grew up living – and mostly dying – along with these Yankee teams. What really amazes me is that we were only sub-.500 for 4 years in the late 80s/early 90s. God, it felt like 20. Sadly throwing money at the problem doesn’t always work.

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Steinbrenner ruined the Yankees in the late 1980s. It was only after he was banned in 92 did Stick Michael turn the team around.

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Jerry: What’s the matter with you?

Kramer: Steinbrenner! He’s ruinin’ my life…

Jerry: Oh yeah, Steinbrenner…

Kramer: I don’t think I can take another season with him, Jerry. He’ll just trade away their best young prospects, just like he did with Buhner, McGee, Drabek… McGriff…

Jerry: I know the list…

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I remember those years like they were yesterday. Those were some troubling times for Yankees’ fans. A lot of fans nowadays don’t understand or realize how fortunate they are to have watched this team over the last 15 years. You can’t truly appreciate it w/o having seen the 15 years prior.

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Also, 3 managers alone in 1982 doesn’t make for a pennant winner.

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Hey now, Clyde King did a good job! Ha!

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Wow, I can barely remember the times when winning 97 games didn’t get you in the playoffs. How did baseball survive?

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It’s a shame that just when George got religion, Jimmy Dolan came along and picked up the flag. But alas, that’s for another website.

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So what? Every team in baseball would sign up for 7 championships in 37 years. In fact, besides the Yanks, no other team in MLB HISTORY has ever won 7 championships in a 37 year timespan. EVER. Look it up. Only 1 team in Major League History has won more than 7 championships. The St. Louis Cardinals. They’ve won 10…in 104 years!!!!

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it really is hard being a yankee fan.

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The legacy of King George goes well beyond titles and record. He was a New York icon, and if nothing else, unintentional comedy across the board.

If you don’t believe me, go watch the Seinfeld episodes where George Costanza worked for the Yankees F.O… George was bigger than baseball…

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also, nothing happens in a vaccuum.

if the Yanks don’t bottom out in 1990-91, there is no Derek Jeter.

the Yankees will never draft that high ever again.

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Those mid-80s teams won, just not enough to win a division. However, had the wild card been available back then, I bet the Yankees make more postseason appearances (particularly ’85 and ’86), and as we’ve seen, Wild Card teams have as good a chance as any of winning the WS. Then again, if my aunt had balls, she’d be my uncle.

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Uh gee it appears either Nomaas has decided to mail it in or Sons of Sam Horn has infiltrated the site. What the hell is the point of this?

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Cashman almost left because of the meddling of Steinbrenner and his Tampa crew. To sit here and act like Steinbrenner was a God-send is ridiculous. His passion for winning was undeniable. But he definitely hurt the team at points during his reign.

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Fusilli Jerry (great name, BTW), I think any Yankee fan who knows anything about the team is well aware of the mixed bag that was the Boss.

Everyone is well versed in his meddling from the 80′s. And then again in the first half of this decade (Raul Mondesi anyone?).

Without his suspension from MLB in the early 90′s, there is likely no late 90′s dynasty. But on the other hand, he rescued the team from the doldrums and was directly responsible for 2 titles in the 70′s.

Just don’t see the point of this post.

He was a complex character. Lot of good, lot of bad. I think we are all intelligent enough to keep that in mind.

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counter point respectfully made? you copy and pasted stuff from baseballreference.com and don’t even explain what point you are trying to make?

I use to check this site everyday, now i find myself checking once a week.

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Shanna, they bought their tickets, they knew what they were getting into. I say, let ‘em crash.

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To the poster two posts above – if you can’t get the counterpoint, then you’re an idiot. nomaas had over a million page views last month, they dont need you.

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@ Jack K.

Post of the day!!!

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I also don’t understand the point of this post. Whatever though.

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I think it’s counter to the revisionist history being ballied out by the media.
The successful times came after Gene Michael and Brian Cashman took control (or more control) and made some smart decisions.

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Hey fans: Joe Torre’s career as Yankees manager was front-loaded. That’s all I’d like to say

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So basically in the mid-80s we were the early-00′s Oakland A’s (generally good unfortunately only 2 teams per league made it) and then 4 whole years under .500! And all while watching the likes of Don Mattingly, Rickey Henderson, Dave Winfield, Tommy John, Ron Guidry, Dave Righetti, Willie Randolph, Phil Niekro, and Don Baylor! The horror!

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so funny how people are rushing to defend steinbrenner. Him getting suspended from baseball in 92 was the best thing to happen to the Yankees.

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Uh he was suspended in 1990. As far whitewashing his sins, I don’t think any sane Yankee fan is. There have however been more good times than bad. The only time I wished he was his old fiery self was in October of 2004. The only ones speaking ill of “The Boss” are Bill Lee,Who gives a fuck, and Douchebag Midget Lupica. Who predictably called into Boston talk radio, since no NY station gives a shit, to call him a “bully.” Mike and Bill your day is coming soon.

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yeah, I agree with that. I wish he would have ripped Torre’s ball off.

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To Spark: the A’s have won 9 championships. 5 in Philly, 4 in Oakland.

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Why, John, you old stick in the mud….

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What the hell is this shit?

THE YANKEES WERE THE ALL-TIME WINNINGEST TEAM IN THE 80s.

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I agree with Nomass on this point. The 1980s could have been a great decade for the Yankees but George was out of control.
George lost it in 1982 when he forced Reggie out.A year later Goose & Nettles followed. They helped SD make a world series. He tried to turn Yankees from a team built on left handed power to a speed team. The only time I rooted against the Yankees was when Reggie took Guidry deep on the night he returned. The whole stadium chanted Steinbrenner sucks!

He gave away so much great talent for nothing in eighties. After Guidry lost it after 1985 the team didn’t have the starting pitching it needed.
Truth is Yankee fans are lucky Torre and Cash limited him at times. Remember how he low balled Andy and we lost him for three years. We almost lost Bernie to Redsox and he costs himself millions by not having Jeter sign his contract when it was originally agreed upon.
I loved George’s will to win, that he brought back tradition and class to Yankees and his willingness to pay for talent. NoMass is right that at times with George it was like the dumbest fan in the stands ran your club. I wish he did a lot of things differently but I’m glad he owed the Yankees.
RIP George.

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JimBear:

The Yankees did not lowball Pettitte. They offered him more money than the Astros.

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“To the poster two posts above – if you can’t get the counterpoint, then you’re an idiot. nomaas had over a million page views last month, they dont need you.”

They dont need me? was i threatening to leave? Are you the Nomaas gate keeper? Right i must be an idiot cause i dont know what point they are trying to counter by copy and pasting stats. Maybe they could have added one sentence for the people that didnt see the original point. But hey i’m an idiot right. Reading the rest of your post you make it quite clear who the idiot is dirty old man, it;s you. Wow a million page views, they’re big time. 990,000 were prolly you d-bag

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Actually at least 200,000 of those page views were me rubbing one out to my own posts.

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NoMass is right that at times with George it was like the dumbest fan in the stands ran your club.

This is a good line.

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Ok so I am not going to tell a lie with you, I just need a backlink. Thanks for understanding!

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The golf pics on It’sAllAboutFire are AWESOME make me miss golf even more.

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