New York Yankees sign A.J. Burnett  

One has to consider that most if not every sports fan in New York didn't really like the development that they tried with Hughes, and Kennedy. They didn't turn out quite nicely, right? New York fans are impatient, from what I could make of them. They wouldn't take a year or two of rebuilding from scratch and constant losing for developing players.

Excellent point Yore.

I am a Twins fan and see them competitive most every year with one of the lowest payrolls in MLB. Their farm system is incredible. It HAS to be, because once the players have some success, they bolt to a large market team and the big bucks.

I guess that if the NY fans are so impatient for a winner, they'll pay the price.

I'll bet they have been pretty disappointed as of late. Thank God for the Mets huh?

The yankees do spend a ton of money. They have the best team money can buy. But you can't really blame or hate the yankees for offering money that they can afford to pay these guys. It's the players that make that decision to sign with them. I don't think that most players really want to play for the yankees, they are just goin for the money. That's exactly what Sabathia did. That's why he has a opt out clause after 3 yrs. It's not so much the yankees, I put the blame on the athletes.

I started a discussion on how athletes are all money and no heart. Meaning that there isn't anyone out there that signs with the team that they trully want to play for. Like you said, with the struggles in the economy, and people out here loosing their jobs and their homes, I think it's really stupid and pathetic to hear these athletes complain about how much money they want. Seeing these guys turn down a multi million dollar contract from one team because they don't feel it's enough. All of these guys are financialy secure for life. Sabathia took $161 million, even though he wanted to play for a team close to his home state of California. None of the west coast teams made an offer higher than the yanks so he signed with them. He was still going to get at least $100 million from somewhere. So what is the difference between $100 million and $161 million? Nothing!! It's MILLIONS!!!

As far as New Yorkers go, I am one. And I'm a red sox fan. And I love pissing people off as a drive around with my Boston hats in my back windshield. But it is true that new yorkers have very little patientce when it comes to winning. We are very hostile people. We demand perfection, especialy when a team spends $400 million on three free agents. Sabathia, Burnett and now Mark Teixeira. Last year they went with their young pitchers, and it didn't work. so now they went out and went back to the original plan. Which is trying to buy a world series. It didn't work before. And they will look very stupid if they don't win it this year with the amount of money they've spent. At some point in time they are going to have to re-build from scratch with minor league talent.