The official "PRAY RANDY JOHNSON DOESN'T SIGN WITH THE YANKEES" thread

[Bombtrack]

Everyone needs to pray with there bumps. Show you're faith in baseball that it's gods have not been defeated by the Baseball Satans that Steinbrenner has sold his soul too.

Randy doesn't need to sign with Boston. Sign with the Dodgers. Sign with Anaheim. Just don't frigging make the super-rich richer. This would be like sending the greatest whore in the world to Hugh Hefner.

[noahmijo]

1. Yanks already once had Randy

and as a Yankee fan you can keep the bum I never liked him anyway, we don't need him again to win.

[HuckleB]

15. Remember October 2001?

Still testy I see.

:)

[noahmijo]

17. I live in Tucson now

Where during that month all of a sudden the city discovered that it had a baseball team, and began to act as though they had been fans for the last 10 years.

Funny I remember the year before no one gave a shit right up untill the play-offs THAT'S when all of a sudden I started to see D'back merch everywhere.

:eyes:

[HuckleB]

19. Yes, that's Arizona for you.

The world's greatest fair-weather fans.

It's also the reality of the expansion franchise, after the first year.

Still, that's the only time in my life that I ever rooted for the bloody Yankees. And, of course, they friggin' lose. So you know I'm going to mention it to every Yankee fan I come across.

[sandnsea]

2. What's wrong with Arizona?

This makes me so sad. Why's he even considering leaving Arizona and especially signing with the Yankees?

[Sandpiper]

6. Because

The D'Backs need to cut payroll and Johnson wants to play for a contender.

[sandnsea]

10. D'Backs can't contend anymore?

How many players have they cut? I will be so disgusted if he signs with the Yankees. How can you feel proud about winning when you've got the deck stacked in your favor to start with?

[Bombtrack]

11. They're 20 and a half games behind

I wish we could send BK Kim back and one of our third basemen for Johnson. God knows BK plays better in AZ.

[Sandpiper]

16. No, they can't

So they're blowing the team up and rebuilding from the ground floor.

[dbackjon]

3. Amen to that

As a Diamondback fan, the Yanks have nothing to offer, anyway!

[newyorican]

4. nyuk!

nyuk! nyuk!

[stepnw1f]

5. I'm Sooo Turned Off By Professional Baseball and others

It's become another monopoly. They claim it's America's Past-time and now tradition. I didn't realise monopolies would be considered an American Tradition. Until they even the playing field and keep greed out, professional baseball is done. Just look at the price of tickets now. Sports used to be the poor man's arena. Now it's the rich man's.

[Sandpiper]

8. Ummm

Sports aren't about even playing fields, they're about winning.

[stepnw1f]

9. Winning is about Team Work and Skill

Not Money and power consolidation. There are ways in which we decide to win. Unfortunately teams like New York kill the sport just to win.

[Sandpiper]

14. You Massachussetts people

Always conveniently omit the Red Sox and their 126 million dollar payroll when you gripe about big money teams "killing the sport."

I wonder why that is?

lol

[noahmijo]

18. No shit

If the yanks "buy" all their victories then Boston must suck more than we thought! also if that's the case what's the Orioles excuse as well? maybe if other owners used part of the tax they collected from Steinbrenner on orders from Selig on their teams instead of themselves they wouldn't be competing for 3rd place all the time.

[stepnw1f]

25. And You Don't Get It

I said Baseball is Dead. Professional Baseball is dead because of Teams like NY ok... NY has smothered pro Baseball. They've been doing for a very long time, and being in Massachusetts gives me every reason to know what happens when one team dominates all other teams in their division, but to be honest, I don't give a shit about the sport. Just come clean and admit the Yankees buy out baseball just about every year. You know they do.

Red Sox suck.... happy.

[noahmijo]

23. And if the Yankees didn't exist

I'm sure the Red Sox would still be viewed as the humble average man's team that they are viewed as today. :eyes:

[sandnsea]

12. Winning with fair rules

The money rules make the game unfair so winning has become meaningless.

[jus_the_facts]

13. Life itself is about the *haves* and *have nots*...

...it's survival o'the fittest/richest....they always win! :nopity:

...that said.....LET'S GEAUX YANKEES! :bounce:

[stepnw1f]

26. Sound Like A Republican

[jus_the_facts]

27. Nahhh....the haves...WIN...the have nots....LOSE.....

.....that's the WAY OF THE WORLD and LIFE/NATURE as well...regardless of how *we* WISH it worked!:eyes:

[HuckleB]

21. You can see an MLB game for less money than a movie.

You can't say that about any other major league sport.

Just saying.

[JackDragna]

7. No way..I want Johnson to go to New York.

Baseball deserves it. When teams buy into this ridiculous system by which teams are allowed to spend god-awful amounts of money to get the best players, they can't complain about the team with the most cash just happening to be the team that seems to get all the best players. Granted, Johnson isn't a free agent in this case, but the Yankees' wealth will allow them to keep him once they get him. So long as every time in baseball supports the current economic model, no one has a right to complain about them.

[avb7]

20. To all you baseball bashers....

Take a look at what a ticket to a concert costs these days. Been to a Broadway show lately? How much does it cost to go to a movie in your neighborhood? It's entertainment folks, nothing more and nothing less. The only difference is that in baseball they keep score. The bashers whine about the good old days of baseball when the players were tied to a team for life and the owners could pay them whatever they felt like. If you care to remember the Yankees won under that system just as they win under this set of rules. Stop blaming the players and carping about how "greedy" they are. Nobody was in that room and put a gun to the head of an owner to pay a player millions of dollars. If a company came along and offered to triple your salary and come work for them, how many of you bashers would turn them down out of loyalty to your boss?

[noahmijo]

22. zactly

Thank You.

Back when they were the Highlanders (they didn't become the Yankees until 1913) they didn't really start taking off untill they started getting the greats and it wasn't because they were wealthy beyond other owner's dreams.

Just ask any Red Sox fan as to whose fault it is Ruth went from their team to the Yanks and how expensive it really was...

[No2W2004]

24. Won't happen

D'backs want pitching prospects. Yanks have none to offer unless they can work a 3 way trade like Boston is trying to do with the Cubs.

As far as baseball, go see a minor league game. Tickets are cheap, beer and soda are reasonable, and the players try their hardest. Bonus if you have kids, the teams generally have stuff to do for them.