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11/6/2009 3:34 AM

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The New York Yankees are baseball's world champions again - for the 27th time - after defeating the Philadelphia Phillies Wednesday night.

After dominating professional baseball for so long, and ensuring they will do so long into the future with their excessive payroll, you would think that this Goliath would have few fans. Yet even in a country where rooting for the underdog - David, if you will - is such a tradition, the Yankees are, incredibly, loved by some.

Way back in 1950, James Murray penned an article under the headline, "I Hate the Yankees," in Life magazine. "For my money," Murray wrote, "the Yankees were and are super-champions for the same reasons General Motors or U.S. Steel or Standard Oil are super businesses."

This generated a long series of gag lines, like "Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for General Motors."

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Since that time, U.S. Steel and especially GM have diminished, and the gag line now is outdated and lacks punch. Maybe a more appropriate comparison would be Microsoft.

Or better still: "Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for Halliburton."

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3 comments

Have you been watching Baseball? : 11/6/2009
This is the first Series victory in years...Dominating baseball? What a joke.

Editorial Clownshow

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: 11/6/2009
'sore loser; let's learn from their success! They're strategies should be applied to many aspects of day to day living! New York! New York!

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Not a Yankees fan, but..... : 11/9/2009
I would tend to agree that the editorial staff of the OR has a tendency to miss the greater point of circumstance that they comment on from time to time. As for “This is the first Series victory in years”, you have realize that 6-years ago isn’t considered “in years”. Just ask the Chicago Cubs, they’ll tell you what “in years” really is, 101 to be precise. “Dominating baseball”, yes, 40 world series appearances, 27 wins and .675 winning percentage is dominating baseball, 7 appearances in the last 12 years yes that’s “dominating baseball”. I’m not getting the editorial staff analogy between the Yankees and Halliburton. Do they think George Steinbrenner and Bud Selig are similar to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney? I think that’s an asinine comparison. How do they correlate going to war under dubious circumstances with a professional sports team that has millions to spend to win. Steinbrenner spends his own money to win. Bush/Cheney spent the country’s blood and treasure to make money, no comparison. Guess what OR. New York has die hard fans, just like Pittsburgh has die hard fans. Instead of complaining about the Yankees, how about challenging the Pirate ownership as to why they won’t spend money to win. Ask them why there content with providing a minor league product, but charging major league prices to watch an inferior team play.

A. Doubleday

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