I'm trying to think of a starter that was developed by their minor league system over the last 10 years rather than bought for a hundred million or so.

I am happy for Matsui, though. He was pretty amazing in the world series.

I love baseball and yet I can't get past the open acceptance of blatant fraud. Every time I see an A-Rod or Petitte I think, "Cheats." Baseball has never been perfectly clean but the whole game is so rife with it now, it's nauseating.

Anyway, yeah Yankees do suck. I've hated them since I was a boy when they were just evil for buying the best players instead of developing them. The worst part of last night was knowing Alex Rodriguez finally won a World Series. Fuck.

and the best years are the ones where they are defeated in the playoffs.

But the layers of hypocrisy in professional sports are had to get past. In my book Barry Bonds should have got the opportunity to play as a DH one more year. I'd have paid to see him hit a couple more.

Steroids, which everybody knows were condoned by management during the late 80s and 90s, aren't the half of it. Mark McGwire had superhuman 20-10 vision thanks to special contact lenses the years he hit all those home runs, and that wasn't a problem. Scores of baseball and tennis players have had eye surgery to give them superhuman vison. There are other special surgeries too, that civilians can't get, and lots more.

And let's not get started on the biggest corruption, which is not the athletes on the field, but the owners who get public money to build private stadiums where the best seats are not only far out of range of ordinary people, but are paid for by those people indirectly since they are tax-deductions for the wealthy corporations and high rollers who do buy them.

Professional sports teams ought to be municipally owned.