Winning cures everything and as long as the Yankees continue to roll, nobody will care what Teixeira is hitting.  Like you said though, should the Yankees falter in the World Series and Teixeira struggles, expect him to be public enemy #1 to Yankees fans

The Fall of the Empire is coming!!! 

 As long as they win who cares

 The fall of your teams was a long time ago.

They whooped your team's @ss though, so they did something right this year.

Thanks for the play by play. You're like Harry Kalas reincarnated. Without your assistance, we would have had no idea that the Yankees were better than the Pirates this year. Thank you so much for your vast knowledge and wealth of information.

Tex had some decent at-bats but they are not translating to hits.  His defense is making up for it, so it's not a big deal for now.  Give Tex time, he'll be tearing it up soon enough.

The Seahawks are nice team its just well something has plagued them with injurys.

No A-Rod references yet? I guess only one person on the Yankees can choke in the playoffs at a time.

Look at your team the Pirates they took you guys for a ride. Give us money for a stadium and we will spend money on the team yeah right. At least the Yankees put the money back into there team.

A-Rod will be fine now that Tex spit in Karma's face

Says the Pirates/ Twins fan. - come on guys! We are all fans of several teams and they all can't win (especially the Pirates) all the time........but 26 going on 27 is awesome!

Yea, it's been 8 seasons since #26. Would you prefer the Yanks win it every year? They are at least very competitive (Pirates? )and in the playoffs every year (but one). So I guess they at least deserved a new stadium.

he may not be the hitting machine that he was all throughout the season but his defensive skills have saved many runs in the post season. no need to nitpick. geez. yanks in 5

congrats to the pirates who missed the post season once again. how many years now? 19 maybe. not that i care. get over your inferiorty complex already.maybe your suck ass owner can pocket more money and not put it back into the team. call me when you have a sellout or a major league team....

Err... you mean at least they put money back into overpaid either d-bags or dudes at the twilight of their career... yeah it must be nice having had an out of his gourd old man firing blindfold into the crowd simply because he can.  Bless his sons.

Uh oh, the Yankers are out in full force now that they're winning!  Not even 8 years of losing can transform that beastly blob into something reasonable, less arrogant, less melodramatic, less self-entitled, less so worthy of utterly hating...

Now for some seriousness, I think it would be a shame if they did turn on Tex like that.  The defensive has been mentioned, but to me he was the smartest move they've made in quite some time.  For the first time in like 8 years, they actually made a move that even I couldn't ridicule.  Shame old Steindou- I mean, Steinbrenner, stepped out of the way eh lol?  It was much more entertaining then...

Although I'm sure the NY media would forget even if it were true, I really attribute him as being a unifying factor in the dugout and also allowing the pitching to be free to catch fire...

At least he has played great defensively, as he has all season. And it's hard to get on a guy who plays with so much intensity and shows that he cares. I don't think he will be the scapegoat if the Yankees get knocked out, unless the last at-bat comes down to him and he fails.

Nah.  They will just spend more money.

8 years of losing the Yankees have not had a losing season in a very long time. If we are talking about world series well yes it has been 8 years but when was last time the Pirates even sniffed a world series. And overpaid my be correct but CC, Tex and Burnett are all in the prime of there careers not over the hill. 

When you spend as much as the Yankees do, then not winning a World Series = losing. When your payroll is as high as several playoff teams COMBINED, there is no excuse for not winning it all.

Even when your team is winning,you find something to moan about...doesn't say much for the moaner other than nothing, and I do mean zero will make them happy.  A baseball team is made up of 9 players on the field,and all the backups...1 guy,unless he "drops balls" hit to him,falls on his face going after a "grounders",etc...does not loose the game for his team. All players go though a "slump",sooner or later they get out of it.
Its the FANS who think their team should win every game,every year be in the playoffs,and then win it all.  Sorry,its just not possible.

Wouldn't this statement be true about the Red Sox as well?

I wouldn't criticize Teixiera yet, if at all. Like many have said, his defense has been absolutely stellar this postseason. And he doesn't look lost at the plate or anything, just not locked in like he was in the regular season.

That's a common misconception, but no, it wouldn't be true about the Red Sox at all.

According to ESPN, the Red Sox payroll this year was $122M. They lost to a team whose payroll was $118M, which is only $4M less.

The Yankees, on the other hand, are $63M higher than the next team, and their payroll is higher than the Angels and Twins ($67M) combined.

So no, it's really not even remotely close.

And here's the link to ESPN's salary info.

Here's the top 10, so you can see just how ridiculous the Yankees' payroll is, compared to everyone else:

1. NY Yankees	208,097,414
2. NY Mets	145,367,987
3. Chicago Cubs	134,058,500
4. Boston	122,435,399
5. Detroit	119,160,145
6. LA Angels	118,964,000
7. Seattle	112,053,666
8. Philadelphia	111,209,046
9. Houston	102,996,414
10. Chicago Sox	100,598,500

Nice try but thats just Yankee hater bs. All the Yankee haters try and pull this bs all the time. I guess it makes you guys feel warm and fuzzy inside but as I said it is all bs. So hit me with one of those smart ass comments like you guys usually do. 

Nothing smartass or BS about it. It's just reality.

If one car costs $50,000 and another car costs $20,000... shouldn't you expect the $50,000 car to perform better? Why should a baseball team be any different?

Actually, the high payroll just gets teams into the playoffs.  Or at the very least, competing year after year for that playoff spot.  Once in, the money factor is turned off.  Once in, today's MLB playoffs are  more about luck and circumstance than quality product.

So the idea that there is no excuse for not winning with the huge payroll is false.  The fact is, with the Yankee payroll, (and Mets, Cubs and yes...  Red Sox) there is no excuse for not at least competing up to the final days if not outright winning the division.

Well... this year, the teams with the highest salary out of their respective league's playoff teams will be going to the World Series, barring an improbably comeback by the Angels. Just throwing it out there. Money DOES matter in the playoffs, especially when that money is invested in pitching.

True...  THIS year the higher money teams have won.  Save for the Angels beating the Red Sox.  That was the only series where a lower payroll defeated a higher payroll.  Just know that payrolls in the post season have little to do with winning the playoff series.  It is all about what team is firing on all cylinders at the time. 

GM's can build a team to win over 162 games.  After that, especially in the days of expanded playoffs, all bets are off and you have to rely on hope.

More often than not, teams with higher payroll win more games than teams with lower payrolls. There are exceptions to the rule, and of course injuries play a huge role (the Mets, for example, had the 2nd highest payroll but had about $80M+ on the DL at season's end). But overall, teams that spend more money generally tend to win more games.

I believe I said that.

But my point is that the money factor is no longer in play in the MLB post season.  Other more dominant factors come into play under those circumstances.

Once again ML is on his kick about how the wild card ruins the playoffs and nowadays it's not about the best team but just the hottest team... yadda yadda yadda. Flukes may happen but they are the exception, not the rule, though he's convinced it's the other way around. He's always pushing the 2007 Rockies as Exhibit A. There's no doubt that team got hot and peaked at exactly the right time, however 1) they had to be playing decently before (above .500) for their season-ending streak to get them in and 2) while they did sweep through the NL playoffs, they then had an eight-day layoff before the World Series and the "hotness" factor was negated. They then lost, got swept actually, by a clearly superior Boston team with a considerably larger payroll. This year, it was the Atlanta Braves who got on a red-hot streak in the closing weeks, but they couldn't overcome Colorado's lead in the wild card despite winning 11 of 13 or something like that. So just getting hot at the right time doesn't make all the difference. The Phillies beat Colorado and L.A. this year because we can all see now that they are clearly a better team. The same will be true of the Yankees once they finish off the Angels. The only example I can think of this decade of a team that won it ALL because they "got hot at the right time" would be the 2006 Cardinals. But I'd like to see a lot more to sell me on the "luck and circumstance... and rely on hope" argument. ESPECIALLY in the days of expanded playoffs and extra days built into the postseason. A team that can afford a Sabathia or Lee and then can pitch them Games 1 & 4 or even 1, 4, 7 has a HUGE advantage. Which ML knows would have been the case had his Giants got in with Lincecum, et. al.

This was really not about the welfare card.  But only indirectly.  What I said about larger baseball playoff fields tend to negate the advantage of superior teams would still be true if MLB had 4 small divisions with only division winners advancing.  

Flukes do indeed happen.  But they seem to happen far more often in MLB's larger playoff field than ever did when the field 1/2 its current size.  It still comes down to bad baseball teams still win 4 out of 10.  And bad teams can get on rolls too.

BTW...  Exhibit A for inferior teams on a roll winning in the post season goes to the '03 Fish.  That was a team that simply was not that good but was playing their best baseball of the season come October.  In fact, it took a Giants team to play the worst they played all year combined with the Fish playing their best...  And the Giants STILL damn near beat them in the final two games.  You speak of Philly clearly being the better team...  Well in '03 the Giants were CLEARLY the VASTLY superior team.  Yet still lost to a team on a roll.

Getting hot at the right time does not make all the difference.  Talent still can play a part.  But it certainly is the largest factor at the very least.

Don't get me started on the built in off days in the LCS.   That is so very annoying.  All it does is give the advantage to the team with the pitching rotation that is not as deep as the other team.  Which is just wrong on so many levels.

Keep the hate flowing.  I'm taking notes for my post World Series rant.

 Not really it is about supply and demand the 50,000 dollar car might be hot but it does not mean it's a better car. So does that mean AJ Burnett is better than Tim Lincecum because he gets paid more?

No, it means Lincecum has only been in the league 2 years, and his contract was dictated by the Giants because he hasn't hit free agency yet. It also means the Yankees are not as financially efficient as other teams.

 I agree about the Yankees but I was answering your last post about the cars.

So... why should a baseball team be any different? If one team is being paid about 3 times as much as some other teams, there's no reason they shouldn't be a lot better. I repeat... when your payroll is as high as the Yankees, anything short of winning a World Series should be considered a complete and utter failure.

What was that about Tex?

Points taken.