American Consumerism and the Yankees
An explosion of thoughts about the disgust at how much money the Yankees will throw at high profile players and yet continuously not reach the brass ring.
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The New York Yankees depict so greatly Major League Baseball’s version of American consumerism. They get the players that want at any price. There is clearly no regard for cost and possible consequence. After all, they’re the Yankees, so what does it matter…right? Nothing could possibly touch them. Oh how wrong they are. If they’re so invincible and so untouchable, how come they haven’t won a World Series in 8 years and didn’t even make it to the postseason this year? I guess it’s true even for baseball teams…money can’t buy you happiness…or in the Yankees’ case - championships.
I mean seriously. If money is supposed to buy championships maybe they’re spending their money on the wrong players.
Alex Rodriguez – $275 mil/10 years and an extra $30 mil if he breaks the home run record. Championships since he’s been with the Yankees – ZERO!
CC Sabathia – $161 mil/7 years. He just signed it so only time will tell if this theory works. World Series appearances – none!
A.J. Burnett – $82.5 mil/5 years. Not an overly ridiculous contract but for this guy? I don’t know that he’s worthy $82.5 mil! World Series rings – one and wasn’t even on the roster at the time.
Mark Teixeira – $180 mil/8 years. Only been to the postseason once and his team got bounced out in the division series!
Anyway the point of this, was to vent how nauseating it is to watch them throw almost half a billion dollars at three players. THREE. So I’m just gonna sit back and watch the season unfold. And in doing so, loudly hope they’re greed adds up to nothing but failure to win a World Series.
Half the world lives on less than $2 a day and they’re paying three players a combined $62 mil to play baseball for maybe 7 months over the course of the 2009 season. And a grand total of $423.5 mil over the next 8 seasons respectively. Okay, that’s more nauseating than I bargained for.
I’m not saying other teams aren’t ridiculously over paying players either but seriously that is beyond ridiculous. Although I guess, if you gotta have it, you gotta have it. Price tags don’t matter. Sounds just like American consumerism only in the form of paying to employ athletes to be part of your team. Ughh.
