Yankees Whine Like Spoiled Children
By lefty
This blog written by Mike Boehm of Oriole Magic.
The New York Yankees feel they have been cheated. Several members of the Yankee organization have voiced displeasure with the Texas Rangers, blaming them for denying the Bronx Bombers what they apparently feel is their birthright of home field advantage.
My first, last, and only reaction to this is to sit in amazement at just how whiny the Yankees can actually get. This is beyond even their normal cry baby attitudes. The Yankees feel another team cheated them?
Pot, meet kettle. Kettle, pot.
Here's the story. In their final home game, Texas Rangers' manager Buck Showalter pulled his star players in the middle of the game so they could get thunderous ovations from the adoring Ranger fans. It's not exactly as if Showalter came up with this novel concept at the last minute. Managers and coaches of all sports have done this for decades.
The difference in this scenario is that the Rangers were playing the Los Angeles Angels of Anahiem California, USA. (Did I miss any geography there? One can never be sure where the Angels are from in any given week.) By nature of winning their final game, the Angels finished the season with the same record as the Yankees, causing the home field advantage of the Division Playoff Series to be held in Los Angeles / Anaheim, California (Which is also on Planet Earth, but we wouldn't want to deter any Martian people from feeling that the Angels are their team too).
The Yankees apparently feel that the Rangers didn't play honorably in removing their stars as it made things easier on the Angels. While on some level I can almost understand this argument, it loses all credibility when you recall that no one in the Yankee organization had any problem with the Orioles playing rookies against New York in 8 games down the stretch.
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