Why We Love to Hate the Yankees

After watching my home state team, the Minnesota Twins, desperately make their way into the playoffs after a monumental one-game playoff with the Detroit Tigers, I could only hope they would again rise to the occasion against America's most expensive and over paid professional baseball team. We all watched the Twins loose to home runs and overpaid players commanding salaries mimicking the Twins entire payroll.

Fair or unfair, the fact remains the Yankees will spend whatever it takes to retain the players they want making small market teams like my own seem impossible to ever compete or contend in the great final series of baseball known as the World Series. They make teams fight for contraction (as once was the case for the Twins a few years back) by losing money and revenue picking up free agents at will for any price.

This in turn directly effects small market teams nervous with upcoming contract negotiations for drafted and developed players through the system that are potential stars (the case of Joe Mauer) nervous they can not make a viable offer through free agency and lose out to once again the YANKEES or another of the over priced East Coast Teams like the Red Sox's (David Ortiz) and NY Mets (Johan Santana).

With that said, I will only hope the Angels can pull off the upset being three games down against a team stacked with cash, big sticks, and steroid use. Who knows, hopefully the team that wins the series this year will be because of the best team on the field at the time through development and hard-work not because of the biggest pocketbook between owners.