Overpriced, overhyped Yankees lose!!

I love it.  Once again the Yankees go out in the offseason and outspend everybody, buy up all the big names they can, and they forget the one most important element to a team - chemistry. 

A few notes on last night's Yankee - Oriole game:

Sabathia can't get out of the 5th, walked 5, no K's, allowed 6 runs.

Teixera was a big goose-egg at the plate, going 0-4, left 5 runners on base and couldn't get it done in the clutch in the 8th after the Yanks pulled to within a run.

At least A-Rod doesn't have to worry about Cody Ransom taking his spot. 

The Yankees franchise is like a boil on the face of Major League Baseball and baseball fans everywhere.  They build a $1.5 billion stadium (with taxpayer $$) and raise their ticket prices almost 100% during a recession.  The "Let them eat cake" mentality of the Yankees will be the undoing of that franchise.  In a few years the new generation of Steinbrenners will grow tired of $200 million plus payrolls only to eek into the playoffs as wildcard - if at all.  They will have a firesale (reference Florida Marlins 1998) and lower ticket prices back to 1950's prices.

Yeah, and Mickey Mantle will come back from the dead and hit clean-up for them too.  The Yankees will never change.  They are an abhorration.  A big market club that bullies 85-90 wins a year and never learns to play together as a team.  And never has any commraderie in the clubhouse.  You never hear players saying they want to play for the Yankees because they've always wanted to play for that manager, or because they love how the organization is run with loyalty and respect shown to the players.  No, they want to play for the Yankees because they pay the most money and it's a storied franchise with a great history of players like Ruth, Mantle, Ford, Gehrig, Berra, etc, etc.  Who can argue that point?  Yes they have had some of the game's best.  But with very few exceptions recently, those greats are only passing through to collect a paycheck and move on.

They have no heart.