For New York Yankees fans

moegossard

When was the last year the Yankees didn't make the playoffs? I need to know for a paper I am writing on a proposed salary cap for baseball and I can't seem to find this info. Thanks.

loveboatcaptain_blak

im sure you can find it on wikipedia. keep searching it will pop up somewhere.

i totally agree with you though, baseball needs a salary cap baaaaadly.

mrwalkerb

loveboatcaptain_blak wrote:

im sure you can find it on wikipedia. keep searching it will pop up somewhere.

i totally agree with you though, baseball needs a salary cap baaaaadly.

Yeah they say they have one but that's total BS, like the system they have is teh equivilant of me saying "you know ladies I have great abs", It's a fucking joke

western pearl

mrwalkerb wrote:

Yeah they say they have one but that's total BS, like the system they have is teh equivilant of me saying "you know ladies I have great abs", It's a fucking joke

lol, funny stuff. Yeah for the teams that can afford that and the luxury tax, well, they can do whatever they want.

Hawkshore

Answer

1994 - But nobody made the playoffs that year as the season was canceled

1993 - Last year with playoffs the Yanks failed to make it

1993 - Toronto Blue Jays Back to Back World Series Champs!!!!

Not sure why this is in Other Music?

mrwalkerb

western pearl wrote:

lol, funny stuff. Yeah for the teams that can afford that and the luxury tax, well, they can do whatever they want.

I know like if you can afford 150 million on payrol you can afford the like $6.75 luxary tax bullshit

Pearls&Stones

Baseball is unfair, but not in terrible shape by any stretch of the imagination.

7 different champs the last 7 season. There has never been a stretch like that in any of the major American sports. That stretch included rich teams who were large "givers" into revenue sharing (The 2004 Red Sox and the 2005 White Sox) and teams that were "receivers" (the 2003 Marlins, and oddly enough, the 2002 Angels---tho they are one of the big boys now)

If you use your resources well, you win. Even though the scales are tipped a little, no team should be cryin' right now, unless it is their own doing

rhcpjam1029

Hawkshore wrote:

Not sure why this is in Other Music?

"Yankees...they're gonna win 'cause they're the...Yankees!"

Shawn Smith Collective

Pearls&Stones wrote:

-7 different champs the last 7 season.

-That stretch included rich teams who were large "givers" into revenue sharing

-and teams that were "receivers"

-If you use your resources well, you win.

Something most people choose to ignore. And there are teams that spend huge dollars that don't make the playoffs, but again, this is ignored and fingers are pointed at the few teams that both spend money AND maintain a high level of success.

Still, it all boils down to choice. MLB chooses to allow their teams to spend freely. Teams in turn let the market dictate what they'll spend. Guess what? If people CHOOSE en masse not to support a team via ticket, apparel and other miscellaneous purchases and television ratings, teams wouldn't be spending so much. If a team spends X, it means they're making that much more in return. And isn't it FAIR that if an employee can earn that much money for his employer, he should be compensated well? That's how it works in the "real world."

Sports are one of the few places that people side with big business and not the employees. Nobody has a problem with the teams or MLB making big bucks, but they want to curb the employees' salaries!