Sorry, All Yanks, and almost no law

Okay, on the initial post, I admitted that I was a sports dork.  Okay, and on top of that I follow some teams religiously.  Some of those teams, aren't exactly the most popular.  One of those teams I like are the Yankees.  I also want to warn you, there is like almost no law here, so if you wanted a long discussion on the viability of anti-trust regs and the federal pre-emption doctrine, well that's not gonna be here.  But have no fear, my precocious friend, there will be a law and sports post later, it will refer to Donald Sterling, and his legacy of professional impotence.

In any event, in case you didn't see it,  the Yankees won!  Yes, for the first time in nine years, and despite acquiring the most expensive, and in some cases totally washed out players, the New York Yankees are now again the World Champions.  Sure the team is made of steroid users, former Red Sox Players, Overpaid pitchers, seemingly washed out veterans, and one player who i know personally (Nick Swisher, I used to go to church with him).  So as you can tell from that sterling description, I don't have my rose colored shades on, but hey, I lov 'em anyway. 

Do you know what I love about them the most?  It is the fabulous dysfunction, that they have, no, that they require, that I love.  An angry, contemptuous owner, who expects success, acts like an angry taskmaster, but will give his teams every financial advantage. A hodge-podge of players who no one in their right mind would put together, chemistry...what chemistry (I don't need no stinkin' chemistry)?  A new manager that was part of the dynasty, who has...well no experience.  I mean didn't Joe Girardi just complete puberty?  Then you have my boy A-Fraud, I love A-Rod, I love that he over thinks things, that everything is calculated, and that he is a total pr mess.  You know what I love most about him, he is me, and you, and everyone else you know.  A-Rod has done what all of us would have fallen into, had we been given the amazing talents he has, been put in contact with the people he did, and came from the place he did.  So hate on A-Fraud all day long, but hate him or love him, the sport is just boring without him.  Frankly this sport is awful without the Yankees, and all of their beautiful dysfunction.  Look, now Boston fans now can go back to hating new york again with the passion of the soup nazi on seinfeld, and maybe they can get some players with the ability of winning a championship?

You can hate on the Yankees for all of the things I have listed, but here is what the Yankees do, that all of us could take stock in and follow.  They want to win, they want to win every contest, every player and personnell lottery, heck, I think every time a steinbrenner goes to the store they race someone down the aisle with their cart to get to the checkout first(allright ....no steinbrenners' shop for themselves..).  These guys and this organization does everything possible to win, they have made tons of money, and they will spend every dime of it on winning.  I can't fault them for that, they earned the money, and they can spend it any darn way they want to.  They are winners, and they put the entire city of New York on their back each time they go on to the field.

So I say, congrats yankees, you expected excellence, and it has been achieved, bravo.

As Always,

Keep sports on your mind, and the law on your side.

The Sports Law Blogger
http://www.sportslaw-sportslaw.blogspot.com