@@362chopEvery other LA sports team owner barely gave a couple million. The Dodgers current ownership is not pinching pennies rn. Btw they also gave the Dodgers foundation a 100m donation last year too. Which is helping out with victims of the fires now.
And there’s the default “what would George have done” comment. You know what George would have done? He would have bowed out to the dodgers and Mets as well because they simply have way more money than the Yankees lol
don't EVER want to hear Yankee fans cry and whine about money spent by other teams. This is just the Ohtani effect in full bloom. Not only the deferment , but, he made team promise to use that extra $ to build and they have. All the $ he's brought in from Japan and jersey sales , ads , etc... it's all comin into fruition now and Dodgers front office is just taking advantage of it all. just seems over the top because other teams aren't spending a dime. that's not our problem . haha , cry more .
@@ContentinMesalol there’s no mlb franchise, more recognizable than the Yankees! The dodgers are probably 3rd behind the Red Sox, even in value of the franchise, the Yankees are ahead of the dodgers.
nobody outside this country and baseball fans know about yankees or dodgers 😂😂 they probably only know lakers and european soccer teams. lets be real now.
It's not that the dodgers cheat or break any rules or laws to be the best team they can possibly be. Any mlb team can do what the dodgers do, including deferring money. But they refused to do it and they shouldn't have waited too long before doing anything to bring in elite players before the dodgers signed them. The dodgers went through a huge injury bug from their pitching staff the last couple of years. Thats why they are not messing around and they're being serious that they want to win. The celtics roster is full of high leverage elite star studded players. Same thing with the dodgers, their roster is full of high leverage elite star studded players. If no one is mad, upset, or jealous about the celtics roster, then why is anyone mad, upset, or jealous about the dodgers roster?
You get that the player has to agree to defer money, right? In fact, to not tick them off in negotiations, they probably should be the one to make the suggestion in the first place, like Ohtani was.
All of baseball used to say the same thing about the Yankees, back in the day. When George Steinbrenner was around, he was accused of buying the World Series. Stop crying, Hal. The Dodgers are on top now. Man up.
this is not 1980 anymore. Teams aren't owned just by baseball people, they're increasingly being owned by private equity firms. There's a huge difference.
Hurt? Couldn’t careless if Yanks haven’t won in years. We hold the most World Series in any sport kiddo. You’d be dead if dodgers ever win 5 more in the next 10 years. Rookie
Hal crying that the dodgers are outspending everyone else??? First the Yankees and Mets had higher payrolls than the dodgers last season. And he amazingly forgets about how his dad outspent everyone 20+ years ago. And not by just a little. They had payrolls twice as high as the 2nd most expensive payroll. That would be like the dodgers having a $500+ million payroll right now.
Just worry about yourself. Yankees not winning any time soon. As a Yankees fan I’m not sure what turns it around. Everything is way too late. Just have to wait a decade.
Yankees aren't willing to do what needs to be done. They do the same thing every year get 1 marquis guy and a cheap vet and then dumpster dive. They watch the Dodgers eat there lunch. Maybe we can get a wildcard. Hal is destroying what his dad worked hard to build. Its just how much money can I extract without spending .
And the payroll.is over 300 million. Arguing that Hal isn't willing to spend is beyond stupid. I honestly don't know how many of my fellow fans remember to breathe with the dumb s*it they say.
Hal was right to let Soto go. He made an offer for $760 mil, but Cohen offered him $5 mil more & a suite. I know that Soto gave the Yankees a spark & he was a major factor in why he made the Word Series. However, sometimes you just need to know when to quit because Cohen was going to outbid Hal no matter what.
The people that aren't Yankees fans think they know everything about the Yankees and their fans. They don't know jack shit. The Yanks had a great offseason. The Dodgers are doing smart business, good for them. Last time I checked you don't play baseball on paper. They could have the best record again this year and get knocked out in the NLDS. As a die hard Yankees fan I am glad they did not sign Soto. 800+ million for 15 years...yeah...no thanks.
That was still a lot of money offered. In the DR we expected Soto to resign with the Yankees and we still think he should have re-signed with them due to what past Dominican players have said about the Yankees and the top notch first class treatment.
@@362chop we believe Cohen was lucky because many other Dominican players have said they would have chosen the Yankees. We were all in shock he chose the Mets he picked the underdog team over the prestigious Yankees.
I have no problem with Hal. I don’t feel the need to my owner suspended so we can build a winner. Happened twice during his tenure. There is a lot of selective amnesia on what George did and didn’t do. He ran the team during the 80s it was a dumpster fire by the late 80s.
As great as Gearge S. was, people get lost in alot of the shady shit he did. Yankee fans didnt start to love him until the late 90s success. Should Hal have gotten a private investigator on Soto? Im not a yankees fan but I do think George gets romanticized a bit too much. People dont realize the shitty place he had left the team when he stopped over seeing things. There was no farm system and most of the players were overpaid and past their prime. But at the time it was working for the short term and yankees fans were bitching that they needed to do what george did and throw money at big names even if it didnt make sense. Also couldnt it be that maybe alot of the lack of growing the farm system the yankees did in the early 2000s to mid 2010s is still biting them in the ass. Old habits die hard. It takes years to fix a bad farm system. Yankees had the worst farm system for years when I was growing up. Nobody would trade with them because they didnt have prospects worth trading for and most of their team was overpaid for the production they were getting. They got 4 championships using players developed in their farm system and building the lineup with guys who can hit. Then using their big bucks on big arms. Then they decide that they need to get big bats and sacrificegetting big arms for it and I know they still had great success with guys like Giambi sheffiled, and Arod, but they were always out in the first round due to no pitching and outside of that lone WS appearance (which they went to in big part due to getting 2 big arms in sabathia and burnett) they didnt do shit other than have a good regular season. You can say they were able to get cole, but really what other pitcher who had multiple years of success have they gone for and clearly wasnt past their prime in recent years? They didnt go for verlander when they should've. Rondon is basically 2020s version of what they did with Javier Vasquez (they acquired vasquez after a break out year, paid him a shitload but it clearly was a one-hit wonder year and he never succeeded with the team). The reason the dodgers have so much success is because alot of their money goes to their arms. Then they add good players who can hit for average and the rest are homegrown. Who on last year's team was home grown and is part of the core of the lineup? We know judge. Torres who spent most of his minor league career with the cubs and they were already trying to get rid of. Volpe who alot of fans say can't hit outside fo small streaks he has. Wells who played half-time and still hasnt figured out MLB hitting but is somehow their 4th batter. It's nice paying for the big bats but there is something to be said when you have a team of guys where most of the lineup came up together in the minors. They have that comroderie from playing together for years and going through similar experiences together
The Yankees were responsible for 34% of the money coming from the top five payrolls in 2005. The Dodgers are only responsible for 24% of the top five payrolls for 2025. They are spending nowhere near as much as the Yankees spent in the early 2000s. The reason why it feels like the Dodgers have a much larger payroll than everyone else is because they don’t have any dead money and they still have a top three farm system in all of baseball. They dont have 115 million going towards Stanton (useless in the regular season), Lemahieu, Rodon, Stroman, Rizzo, Hicks etc They also only have 1 top 100 prospect compared to the Dodgers 8.
Living in Jersey as a Dodger fan! I listen to sports radio here WFAN. The amount of complaints the Yankee fans are spewing about the Dodgers spending is crazy !!!! The hypocrisy is mind boggling, didn't the Yankees once buy and sign everyone not tied down? They're just salty because this era of Yankees baseball no longer has the pinstripe mystique. Get over yourselves!
Couldn't agree more with Stephen A and Mad Dog. At the end of the day, Hal Steinbrenner has drawn a line and he refuses to cross it. He's the owner, so there's really nothing that can be done about it. The players have to play, the manager has to manage. Cashman did his job, based on what he was given. Gotta find a way to get back to the WS in 2025 and beat whomever is there, presumably the Dodgers.
@. yea...I read that the Yankees made over $600m in profit in 2024. He cant put the yankees with the other owners. Yankees can spend and much as any team. They just dont want to risk it while the Dodgers not worried about risks right now. They trying to win multiple championships over the nexts 10 years
I don't think he's making an excuse. Yankees just went to the WS. Yankees are a baseball team that derives its financial security from baseball. Dodgers are a baseball team backed by a multi-billion dollar private equity corporation. There's a huge difference and Dodgers can take risks on contracts that no other team can due to their different financial profiles.
People here are saying spend spend spend, but we did this in the '80s & '14. How did that work out? My point is spending money on big contracts doesn't always work. Yes, LAD & the Rangers did spend to win the World Series. Yes, we did win our last Word Series on spending. Keep in mind that the Rangers missed the postseason after they won the World Series & were 78-84. We contributed to LAD winning the World Series.
Mad dog referring to roki sasaki as " that young kid" is hilarious. Shows how much ball mad dog really keeps up on. Both these guys are a joke. They're entertainers first, ball knowers last.
Hal signed Judge to 9 year 360 million contract. Hal signed Cole to 9 year 324-million-dollar contract. Yanks signed Max Fried to 8 year 218-million-dollar contract. Hal signed Rodon to 6 year 160-million-dollar contract. Hal is paying Stanton over 30 million a year. Yanks offered 760-million-dollar contract which he denied. Shut up Stephen A.
None of that is changing the fact that Hal said most of us baseball teams can't do what the Dodgers are doing. While having the highest revenue in MLB and its not close. He's trying to include the Yankees like he owns the pirates or Royals. 😂😂😂 talking like he's cheap and working on a low budget
@@anthonymarrequin1819i mean if you knew what u were speaking about he has a point lol . Hal doesnt have his dad money , he splits profits with his brother and sisters , they also own a piece of the yankees for 1 so george never had to split no profits , second george owned a shipping company also but sold it , hal literally doesnt have the money to spend his dad had , they didnt have penalties on spending when his dad was doing what he was doing in the 90s , also yankees are paying by themselves out of there pocket for there stadium (most expensive stadium) that they rebuilt in 2009 . Yall dudes know nothing yall speak of , dodgers have a ownership GROUP , worth 400 billion dollars 😂😂😂
@@brandonfletcher7173 ohh boo hoo they had to split 720 million between brothers and sisters from there 2024 revenue. Spending anymore will forsure have them living under a bridge by 2026. Trying to defend ownership who made more money in one year after splits than you'll ever see in your lifetime is kind of pathetic. But I'm sure you'll find a way to still defend their wealth 😂
As a person that doesn't like Stephen A because he's a fake,this is one of the rare times Stephen A was dropping truth bombs,and I hate the f'n cocky fruits 🥜,and flakes. Now if I never gave Jerer, judge a free sweet why would I do it for Soto? That part was reasonable,and if Soto wanted to stay,he would have taking less,but Soto will be a bum in a few years anyway. No player has ever lived up to contracts like Soto's. I'm also annoyed at Hal,for not signing Burnes,and a few other players.
I cant deal with some yankee fans.These are the same ones who killed the long contracts, lack of a farm system, lack of young talent. O by the way thats with having the 3rd highest payroll. Spending money isn't the issue, its being smarter with how they spend their money. Am i sad to see soto go yes but a 15 year deal is ridiculous. And these so called fans would be the first to kill the team when the deal doesnt age well. The same with the deferred money. I think the team is more balanced then last year 3rd base is still an issue. I have no issues with the yankees off-season
Where is the lie❓Stephen A is correct. Hal wants fans in the seats and nothing else. Please bookmark this post because the Yankees will not win the World Series anytime soon let alone this season. Enjoy them winning games from April thru September and wet the bed in the post season.
It’s easy for Stephen to say they aren’t committed to winning. They aren’t committed to overpaying guys (even though they overpaid for judge) . It’s easy for Stephen to say pay whatever but when he doesn’t have to pay for tickets and food at the stadium.
BS. George Steinbrenner is rolling in his grave hearing his son’s statement. George would be out there throwing money around trying to one up the Dodgers right now. What a lame excuse from Hal, whining that another team is spending money when HE OWNS THE NEW YORK YANKEES, the most valuable brand in professional sports history.
@ I don’t disagree. My point being that you don’t have to be the top payroll to win. How many years have the Yankees and dodgers been the top payroll vs the amount of championships they’ve won? I’m not saying the brewers are going to win it all anytime soon but at the same time it doesnt cost 300+ million to win.
I mean he’s just telling the truth. This idea that the Yankees are the richest team in the game just isn’t true. This isn’t 1998 lol Steve Cohen has more money than anyone and he’s not coming close to the dodgers. The bottom line is, no team should have a 500 million dollar payroll. The game is broken (as it always has been). The competitive balance is broken. This is a baseball issue. Not a “Hal is cheap” issue. That’s the dumbest thing you could possibly say.
@ how much is enough? The Dodgers payroll plus penalty will exceed half a billion dollars this year. Im just not a believer that that’s what it takes to win and if it is then about 27 teams have zero chance which is what I mean when I say the sport needs fixed
@ last year the dodgers had 353 million in payroll and 103 million in luxury tax penalty for 456 million in total. Idk all the intricacies of the luxury tax rules but at 375 million this year and the fact that they’ve stayed over the limit for so many years, they’ll easily top 500 million this year and that doesn’t include all the deferred money. The Yankees for 2024 paid about 380 million in total and that’s only because they reset their penalties to some extent a few years ago. It’s just not a sustainable model. Yes the Yankees are worth 7.5 billion (which isn’t how much cash they have. Just what the franchise is worth if sold) but when you look at Steve cohen who has a personal net worth north of 20 billion and the dodgers are owned by the Guggenheim partners who have over 320 billion in assets, the Yankees cannot keep up. They’re not hurting either but they can’t take a loss every year. The Mets haven’t been profitable since Steve Cohen bought the team but he doesn’t care. The Steinbrenner’s simply don’t have that luxury
If Hal believes he can make a championship team for not $300 million you dont have the GM for it. You are not better than last year like the Dodgers. Because also didnt have as 2009 offseason.
@@Gogeta-w7t Kim Ng would be great, Carlos Rodriguiez of the Rays I heard, Jeff Kingston of the Dodgers, Sara Gelles of the Pirates, maybe Gavin Dickey of the Astros. I either want one of these great MLB teams vice presidents or like the Dodgers and Mets did year ago get a not big market GM and bring him or her here and give them big money to work with.
@ there’s teams that never win like I said I’ve seen the Yankees win 5 world series titles so far so yeah it sucks that they lost last year but im very confident I’m gonna see the Yankees win more World Series titles in my life so I’m not worried about it
Mark my words, the yankees will not win a world series until Hal steinbrenner is no longer the owner. He has a hard time spending like the dodgers yet his team is the richest, in the largest market, has the highest revenue, and one of the top 5 most valuable sports team in the world. He is a disgrace and the yankee fans need to push for new ownership
The statements made by the Yankee owner are detrimental to all Yankee fans. If you truly give up Mr Hal, please sell the Yankees to someone like Elon Musk and let's see what Cohen and the Dodgers react to that. Very tired of Hal and his excuses. Sell the team to someone that will fight for us. In addition, players are shunning the Yankees in free agency like Ohtani and Sasaki. Sell the Team !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like how people are commenting if George was here, but ignore the fact that Gene Michael & Bobb Watson were the main reasons why the Yankees won in 96,98,99, & 00. Yes, Cashman had a role in this. He traded for Chuck Knoblauch, signed El Due Que, traded for David Justice etc People love to credit George with winning 7 rings, but ignore that Gabe Paul was the brains behind the operation. George was suspended both times.
Does everyone forget how George was suspended in 1989 for hiring a hustler Alex Spira, to get information on Dave Winfield’s Foundation. George did not always make good moves. Gene Michael took over , and made some really great trades, the young players from the farm system like Jeter,Pettite,Rivera, and Bernie Williams etc. Some of us Yankee Fans do not expect the team to get every player. If Soto wanted to be a Yankee, he would be a Yankee. The Yankees still struggled last year, even with him. I just would to see a team with good fundamentals, which hasn’t been the last couple of years.
I understand where Stephen is coming from, there’s no way in hell George Steinbrenner would have allowed Juan Soto, to sign with the Mets, there’s probably no way he would’ve allowed the Dodgers to sign Shohei Otani either. Big market teams can use the same exact strategy as the Dodgers, buy now and pay later. Obviously there’s a passive aggressiveness on the part ofHal Steinbrenner. All things considered, buying tickets to a Yankee game is the most expensive sporting decision.a consumer could ever make.. in spite of that, when a team from a big market is in the playoffs, people still spend money to attend, the Yankees are one of the biggest money making franchises in all of sports and they have their own network to go with it, so people just want Hal to have some passion as well as a sense of urgency. not to take away from anything, I think the Yankees had a very decent off-season and the team they put on the field this upcoming year will be probably a better team than last season. even so, don’t be afraid to spend some money, it’s not like it’s coming out of your pocket Hal, it’s coming out of the pocket of the season-ticket holders.
Nonsense George wouldn’t have signed either. He never paid top dollar for a FA. Never not Jackson, not Winfield nobody. He sold them on NY and expected a discount and he got it. If he didn’t he passed.
@ so I guess you’re the expert who can tell us why Andy Hawkins, Danny Tartarbull, Rick Roden, and Jack Clark were signed? If you’re going to come on this thread and pretend to make sense, I think you should find another activity to get into
A poverty franchise? Really a team whose payroll is over $300M if you’re going to use a word at least know to use it I bet you everything that comes out your mouth is woke because you hear other people use it the wrong way get off social media kid
If Shohei and Yamamoto wanted to join the Yankees, Steinbrenner would be more than happy to pay what they ended up getting. His problem is players don’t want to join his organization. Nothing to do with dodgers out spending other teams
@@garishqualm344 Not racist. We tried to sign Shohei when he 1st became a FA in the '17 off-season, but said that he didn't want to play in the AL East. Hal gave Yamamoto an offer, but he wanted to go to LAD. If the Yankees were racist they wouldn't have bothered to make them an offer to begin with. Keep in mind that Matsui, Ichiro, Tanaka, Kuroda were all Japanese players who wore pinstripes. If players don't want to join then there's nothing Hal can do about it.
@@garishqualm344 That's true, but Yamamoto was still using the Yankees to get more money not to mention that he hasn't pitched a full season yet. I'm not a big believer in ERA, but I know that some people are & it was an even 3 & he's only thrown 90 innings. Aside from pitching against us he did poorly in the postseason. I know that Gerrit Cole made a bonehead decision by not running to 1B, but overall he's proven to be able to pitch in the postseason. Yes, Cole was on the IL with a 3.41 ERA with 95 innings under his belt. However, Cole has actually proven to be mostly worth his contract.
@ There isnt a salary cap, but there is a luxury tax for teams exceeding the limit. But other than paying extra money for it, there is no other consequence for going over the set limit, unlike the NBA where teams lose ability to sign players if their payroll is too big.
And to flex the wallet a little more, Dodgers owner just donated over 100m to LA fire relief!
@@Forbidden8th He should
@@362chopEvery other LA sports team owner barely gave a couple million.
The Dodgers current ownership is not pinching pennies rn.
Btw they also gave the Dodgers foundation a 100m donation last year too. Which is helping out with victims of the fires now.
@ Honorable people.
I never thought I would ever see the owner of the Yankees cry! Wild
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Hal steinbrenner needs to stop worrying about the dodgers spending. Worry about putting a solid team on the field.
Team is better right now than last year on defense, in the bullpen, starting rotation and base running. Overall, it is a better team.
I can only imagine what George Steinbrenner would have reacted these last 8 seasons
George would’ve gotten rid of Boone years ago especially when we struggled from May to August everyone said it
The Yankees missed the playoffs for 12 straight seasons from 1982-1993. The Boss didn't react well.
George would be making an offer to buy every team in NPB
@@Nega_Duck_X Also George would have gotten rid of Brian Cashman also. They not winning many World Series Titles under him.
And there’s the default “what would George have done” comment. You know what George would have done? He would have bowed out to the dodgers and Mets as well because they simply have way more money than the Yankees lol
don't EVER want to hear Yankee fans cry and whine about money spent by other teams. This is just the Ohtani effect in full bloom. Not only the deferment , but, he made team promise to use that extra $ to build and they have. All the $ he's brought in from Japan and jersey sales , ads , etc... it's all comin into fruition now and Dodgers front office is just taking advantage of it all. just seems over the top because other teams aren't spending a dime. that's not our problem . haha , cry more .
I wouldn't and I'm a Yankees fan
if this was the royals sure but the yankees? the yankees? the most known brand in sports? what weak sauce.
They are not the most know brand in their own league now.
@@ContentinMesa well dodgers have replaced them but still.
@@FrozeSilvers99 For the time being. Just get ready for a lockout & cap. Guaranteed with the expiration of the current CBA. Dodgers will be blamed.
@@ContentinMesalol there’s no mlb franchise, more recognizable than the Yankees! The dodgers are probably 3rd behind the Red Sox, even in value of the franchise, the Yankees are ahead of the dodgers.
nobody outside this country and baseball fans know about yankees or dodgers 😂😂 they probably only know lakers and european soccer teams. lets be real now.
Yamamoto chose the Dodgers over the Yankees bc he was a fan of Hideo Nomo. He has said that Ohtani didn't factor into the equation. Sorry, Mad Dog.
It's not that the dodgers cheat or break any rules or laws to be the best team they can possibly be. Any mlb team can do what the dodgers do, including deferring money. But they refused to do it and they shouldn't have waited too long before doing anything to bring in elite players before the dodgers signed them. The dodgers went through a huge injury bug from their pitching staff the last couple of years. Thats why they are not messing around and they're being serious that they want to win. The celtics roster is full of high leverage elite star studded players. Same thing with the dodgers, their roster is full of high leverage elite star studded players. If no one is mad, upset, or jealous about the celtics roster, then why is anyone mad, upset, or jealous about the dodgers roster?
@@DanielJimenez-mi5zm Hey you’re right but I do believe this is headed to a lockout & Cap.
You get that the player has to agree to defer money, right? In fact, to not tick them off in negotiations, they probably should be the one to make the suggestion in the first place, like Ohtani was.
All of baseball used to say the same thing about the Yankees, back in the day. When George Steinbrenner was around, he was accused of buying the World Series. Stop crying, Hal. The Dodgers are on top now. Man up.
No there not we still have the money Hal just doesn’t want to spend it
And we don’t make players defer money either
@@philb.1502 A much smaller scale.
@@noahmendoza7189u cnt make a player defer money ..he has to agree
this is not 1980 anymore. Teams aren't owned just by baseball people, they're increasingly being owned by private equity firms. There's a huge difference.
Stephen A isn’t a real Yankee. Guy watches 3 games a year
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What are you watching his house cameras to know? 😂
@@anthonymarrequin1819 I heard him say Soto hit behind judge. That’s all I need to hear.
@@cadenmills7838say less 😂😂😂
Facts 😂😂😂😂
My Dodgers are gonna repeat!
Yupe!! Hardcore Dodgers fan since 1985!! The Yankees are bums!!
@MannyLoxx2010 100%. Too bad you missed the 1981 team that beat the Yankees, but at least you've endured some of their following glory.
@@MannyLoxx2010looking like a log of 💩
@@lookfeelbehealthy6320 If it was the old format I’d agree but with too many PS clubs it’s a daunting task.
Damn you been a bum for 40 years that's wild @@MannyLoxx2010
if the yankees won game 1 the dodgers would have still beat them in 6 lol
Nah they lose in 7
@@FrankieefootballmundialFudge would’ve been on fraud watch the entire series. Dodgers in 6
Every other owner right now: “Stop forcing us to spend money.”
must HURT to be a Yankee fan! #dodgersbaseball BABY!
Hurt? Couldn’t careless if Yanks haven’t won in years. We hold the most World Series in any sport kiddo. You’d be dead if dodgers ever win 5 more in the next 10 years. Rookie
Nah I’ve seen the Yankees win 5 world series titles in my life so far! How many have you seen the dodgers win?
Why are the Yankees people crying if they got had their most successful season in 15 years? Most spoiled babys in sports except maybe the Lakers.
@@erock8678 you’re absolutely right about that but who remembers beyond the 1940’s?
@@Idkyou894 and still counting!
Hal crying that the dodgers are outspending everyone else??? First the Yankees and Mets had higher payrolls than the dodgers last season. And he amazingly forgets about how his dad outspent everyone 20+ years ago. And not by just a little. They had payrolls twice as high as the 2nd most expensive payroll. That would be like the dodgers having a $500+ million payroll right now.
2017 ny would have lost to LA
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Hahaha “we want him to resemble his daddy” that was hilarious
Just worry about yourself. Yankees not winning any time soon. As a Yankees fan I’m not sure what turns it around. Everything is way too late. Just have to wait a decade.
You anticipate that his offspring will have his commitment to winning…
Ask Jeanie Buss about that. 😂
Chris Russo is hard on the ears.
Yankees aren't willing to do what needs to be done. They do the same thing every year get 1 marquis guy and a cheap vet and then dumpster dive. They watch the Dodgers eat there lunch. Maybe we can get a wildcard. Hal is destroying what his dad worked hard to build. Its just how much money can I extract without spending .
And the payroll.is over 300 million. Arguing that Hal isn't willing to spend is beyond stupid. I honestly don't know how many of my fellow fans remember to breathe with the dumb s*it they say.
The Chiefs and the Dodgers will do whatever it takes to win in their respective sports.
Had his chance but passed them all to gamble on Soto.
Hal was right to let Soto go. He made an offer for $760 mil, but Cohen offered him $5 mil more & a suite. I know that Soto gave the Yankees a spark & he was a major factor in why he made the Word Series.
However, sometimes you just need to know when to quit because Cohen was going to outbid Hal no matter what.
@ the play was never Soto even my comment says that. Getting soto would have ended the Yankees.
@@bobdylan-t1r ok
Alright, good points here but just because a player and agent say this is what a player is worth doesnt mean owners have to bend and grab the ankles.
The people that aren't Yankees fans think they know everything about the Yankees and their fans. They don't know jack shit. The Yanks had a great offseason. The Dodgers are doing smart business, good for them. Last time I checked you don't play baseball on paper. They could have the best record again this year and get knocked out in the NLDS. As a die hard Yankees fan I am glad they did not sign Soto. 800+ million for 15 years...yeah...no thanks.
You’re a poverty franchise who was outbid by the Mets. LOLOLOL
Hal never wanted Soto to return. Just enough effort to make it look good. Making money hand over fist.
That was still a lot of money offered. In the DR we expected Soto to resign with the Yankees and we still think he should have re-signed with them due to what past Dominican players have said about the Yankees and the top notch first class treatment.
@ He was Cohens from the start. Everyone knew he wouldn’t be outbid.
@@362chop we believe Cohen was lucky because many other Dominican players have said they would have chosen the Yankees. We were all in shock he chose the Mets he picked the underdog team over the prestigious Yankees.
I guarantee you started saying the day he signed with the Mets LOL
@@SpammoJohnson Poor grammar.
After last year I’m done with the Yankees we shouldn’t lose the World Series last year
I have no problem with Hal. I don’t feel the need to my owner suspended so we can build a winner. Happened twice during his tenure. There is a lot of selective amnesia on what George did and didn’t do. He ran the team during the 80s it was a dumpster fire by the late 80s.
It's so easy to spend money when it's not yours.
As great as Gearge S. was, people get lost in alot of the shady shit he did. Yankee fans didnt start to love him until the late 90s success. Should Hal have gotten a private investigator on Soto? Im not a yankees fan but I do think George gets romanticized a bit too much. People dont realize the shitty place he had left the team when he stopped over seeing things. There was no farm system and most of the players were overpaid and past their prime. But at the time it was working for the short term and yankees fans were bitching that they needed to do what george did and throw money at big names even if it didnt make sense.
Also couldnt it be that maybe alot of the lack of growing the farm system the yankees did in the early 2000s to mid 2010s is still biting them in the ass. Old habits die hard. It takes years to fix a bad farm system. Yankees had the worst farm system for years when I was growing up. Nobody would trade with them because they didnt have prospects worth trading for and most of their team was overpaid for the production they were getting. They got 4 championships using players developed in their farm system and building the lineup with guys who can hit. Then using their big bucks on big arms. Then they decide that they need to get big bats and sacrificegetting big arms for it and I know they still had great success with guys like Giambi sheffiled, and Arod, but they were always out in the first round due to no pitching and outside of that lone WS appearance (which they went to in big part due to getting 2 big arms in sabathia and burnett) they didnt do shit other than have a good regular season. You can say they were able to get cole, but really what other pitcher who had multiple years of success have they gone for and clearly wasnt past their prime in recent years? They didnt go for verlander when they should've. Rondon is basically 2020s version of what they did with Javier Vasquez (they acquired vasquez after a break out year, paid him a shitload but it clearly was a one-hit wonder year and he never succeeded with the team). The reason the dodgers have so much success is because alot of their money goes to their arms. Then they add good players who can hit for average and the rest are homegrown.
Who on last year's team was home grown and is part of the core of the lineup? We know judge. Torres who spent most of his minor league career with the cubs and they were already trying to get rid of. Volpe who alot of fans say can't hit outside fo small streaks he has. Wells who played half-time and still hasnt figured out MLB hitting but is somehow their 4th batter.
It's nice paying for the big bats but there is something to be said when you have a team of guys where most of the lineup came up together in the minors. They have that comroderie from playing together for years and going through similar experiences together
Russo is 100% on this one
Dodgers in the Jewelry business Cuh!!
The Yankees were responsible for 34% of the money coming from the top five payrolls in 2005. The Dodgers are only responsible for 24% of the top five payrolls for 2025. They are spending nowhere near as much as the Yankees spent in the early 2000s. The reason why it feels like the Dodgers have a much larger payroll than everyone else is because they don’t have any dead money and they still have a top three farm system in all of baseball. They dont have 115 million going towards Stanton (useless in the regular season), Lemahieu, Rodon, Stroman, Rizzo, Hicks etc They also only have 1 top 100 prospect compared to the Dodgers 8.
Living in Jersey as a Dodger fan! I listen to sports radio here WFAN. The amount of complaints the Yankee fans are spewing about the Dodgers spending is crazy !!!! The hypocrisy is mind boggling, didn't the Yankees once buy and sign everyone not tied down? They're just salty because this era of Yankees baseball no longer has the pinstripe mystique. Get over yourselves!
Couldn't agree more with Stephen A and Mad Dog. At the end of the day, Hal Steinbrenner has drawn a line and he refuses to cross it. He's the owner, so there's really nothing that can be done about it. The players have to play, the manager has to manage. Cashman did his job, based on what he was given. Gotta find a way to get back to the WS in 2025 and beat whomever is there, presumably the Dodgers.
We have more money to spend the problem is he doesn’t want to spend it
@. yea...I read that the Yankees made over $600m in profit in 2024. He cant put the yankees with the other owners. Yankees can spend and much as any team. They just dont want to risk it while the Dodgers not worried about risks right now. They trying to win multiple championships over the nexts 10 years
Yankees have addressed some needs and still have one more move in the offseason!
I don't think he's making an excuse. Yankees just went to the WS. Yankees are a baseball team that derives its financial security from baseball. Dodgers are a baseball team backed by a multi-billion dollar private equity corporation. There's a huge difference and Dodgers can take risks on contracts that no other team can due to their different financial profiles.
Couldn’t disagree more. I think the Yankees had an excellent off-season. From a Cardinals full of pre-season hopium for Gorman and Walker.
I'd say they avoided a disaster with soto. Below avg fielder and his bat will decline in 5-7 years and you will be paying him for nothing after.
People here are saying spend spend spend, but we did this in the '80s & '14. How did that work out? My point is spending money on big contracts doesn't always work. Yes, LAD & the Rangers did spend to win the World Series. Yes, we did win our last Word Series on spending.
Keep in mind that the Rangers missed the postseason after they won the World Series & were 78-84. We contributed to LAD winning the World Series.
They are second in payroll. The hell he want them to do
The Yankees made some good acquisitions this offseason. They should be in the mix. RANDOM - why SAS say “Daddy” like that? 😆
Mad dog referring to roki sasaki as " that young kid" is hilarious. Shows how much ball mad dog really keeps up on. Both these guys are a joke. They're entertainers first, ball knowers last.
Hal signed Judge to 9 year 360 million contract. Hal signed Cole to 9 year 324-million-dollar contract. Yanks signed Max Fried to 8 year 218-million-dollar contract. Hal signed Rodon to 6 year 160-million-dollar contract. Hal is paying Stanton over 30 million a year. Yanks offered 760-million-dollar contract which he denied. Shut up Stephen A.
None of that is changing the fact that Hal said most of us baseball teams can't do what the Dodgers are doing. While having the highest revenue in MLB and its not close. He's trying to include the Yankees like he owns the pirates or Royals. 😂😂😂 talking like he's cheap and working on a low budget
Yankees are a fraud Dodgers To good
That's right he's the problem trying to act like he owns the pirates get the f outta here @@anthonymarrequin1819
@@anthonymarrequin1819i mean if you knew what u were speaking about he has a point lol . Hal doesnt have his dad money , he splits profits with his brother and sisters , they also own a piece of the yankees for 1 so george never had to split no profits , second george owned a shipping company also but sold it , hal literally doesnt have the money to spend his dad had , they didnt have penalties on spending when his dad was doing what he was doing in the 90s , also yankees are paying by themselves out of there pocket for there stadium (most expensive stadium) that they rebuilt in 2009 . Yall dudes know nothing yall speak of , dodgers have a ownership GROUP , worth 400 billion dollars 😂😂😂
@@brandonfletcher7173 ohh boo hoo they had to split 720 million between brothers and sisters from there 2024 revenue. Spending anymore will forsure have them living under a bridge by 2026. Trying to defend ownership who made more money in one year after splits than you'll ever see in your lifetime is kind of pathetic. But I'm sure you'll find a way to still defend their wealth 😂
Cry harder Hal
Lol that list they showed of who the Dodgers added. Makes me smile from to ear to ear. Can't wait 😂😂
Aww it hard for the Yankees to spend money ?😢😢
As a person that doesn't like Stephen A because he's a fake,this is one of the rare times Stephen A was dropping truth bombs,and I hate the f'n cocky fruits 🥜,and flakes. Now if I never gave Jerer, judge a free sweet why would I do it for Soto? That part was reasonable,and if Soto wanted to stay,he would have taking less,but Soto will be a bum in a few years anyway. No player has ever lived up to contracts like Soto's. I'm also annoyed at Hal,for not signing Burnes,and a few other players.
Crazy how Boone just skates by… nvm
Why does Mad Dog look orange?
Looks like the Dodgers will bring in the most money in mlb in 2025. They have a new Japan tv deal kicking in too. Yankees seem to be giving up.
💯 % Agree @StephenASmith
Mad dogs face always seems so stiff😂
I cant deal with some yankee fans.These are the same ones who killed the long contracts, lack of a farm system, lack of young talent. O by the way thats with having the 3rd highest payroll. Spending money isn't the issue, its being smarter with how they spend their money. Am i sad to see soto go yes but a 15 year deal is ridiculous. And these so called fans would be the first to kill the team when the deal doesnt age well. The same with the deferred money. I think the team is more balanced then last year 3rd base is still an issue. I have no issues with the yankees off-season
🤡. Needs to keep the Yankees name out of his mouth. The Yankees know exactly what they’re doing.
Why listen to Stephen A about anything. Especially about baseball.
Where is the lie❓Stephen A is correct. Hal wants fans in the seats and nothing else. Please bookmark this post because the Yankees will not win the World Series anytime soon let alone this season. Enjoy them winning games from April thru September and wet the bed in the post season.
"we'll see if it pays off" he already deluded himself the dodgers didn't just beat the yankees to win the ws 😂
I believe it paid off sir
ESPN Lis a joke. 👎
It’s easy for Stephen to say they aren’t committed to winning. They aren’t committed to overpaying guys (even though they overpaid for judge) . It’s easy for Stephen to say pay whatever but when he doesn’t have to pay for tickets and food at the stadium.
BS. George Steinbrenner is rolling in his grave hearing his son’s statement. George would be out there throwing money around trying to one up the Dodgers right now. What a lame excuse from Hal, whining that another team is spending money when HE OWNS THE NEW YORK YANKEES, the most valuable brand in professional sports history.
So you rather paying cheaper ticket and food than teams chasing title, got it.
@ no you can win without being first in payroll. To Hal’s point
@ yeah, but the likelihood of that is lower than of those who willing to spend. Goodluck beating the Dodgers without spending.
@ I don’t disagree. My point being that you don’t have to be the top payroll to win. How many years have the Yankees and dodgers been the top payroll vs the amount of championships they’ve won? I’m not saying the brewers are going to win it all anytime soon but at the same time it doesnt cost 300+ million to win.
I mean he’s just telling the truth. This idea that the Yankees are the richest team in the game just isn’t true. This isn’t 1998 lol Steve Cohen has more money than anyone and he’s not coming close to the dodgers. The bottom line is, no team should have a 500 million dollar payroll. The game is broken (as it always has been). The competitive balance is broken. This is a baseball issue. Not a “Hal is cheap” issue. That’s the dumbest thing you could possibly say.
Just because he doesn’t have the most doesn’t mean they don’t have enough
@ how much is enough? The Dodgers payroll plus penalty will exceed half a billion dollars this year. Im just not a believer that that’s what it takes to win and if it is then about 27 teams have zero chance which is what I mean when I say the sport needs fixed
@@gregwade5010 How big of a penalty are you figuring? $375M is a lot but $125M less than $500M.
@ last year the dodgers had 353 million in payroll and 103 million in luxury tax penalty for 456 million in total. Idk all the intricacies of the luxury tax rules but at 375 million this year and the fact that they’ve stayed over the limit for so many years, they’ll easily top 500 million this year and that doesn’t include all the deferred money. The Yankees for 2024 paid about 380 million in total and that’s only because they reset their penalties to some extent a few years ago. It’s just not a sustainable model. Yes the Yankees are worth 7.5 billion (which isn’t how much cash they have. Just what the franchise is worth if sold) but when you look at Steve cohen who has a personal net worth north of 20 billion and the dodgers are owned by the Guggenheim partners who have over 320 billion in assets, the Yankees cannot keep up. They’re not hurting either but they can’t take a loss every year. The Mets haven’t been profitable since Steve Cohen bought the team but he doesn’t care. The Steinbrenner’s simply don’t have that luxury
Stop it Stephen A, you barely watch the game.
If Hal believes he can make a championship team for not $300 million you dont have the GM for it. You are not better than last year like the Dodgers. Because also didnt have as 2009 offseason.
The Astros were able to do it in '22 & that time they won fairly. WSN did it in '19. KC did in '15, so it's not impossible.
@Gogeta-w7t They don't have the GM.
@@SteveDave211
Who would you prefer as GM?
@@Gogeta-w7t Kim Ng would be great, Carlos Rodriguiez of the Rays I heard, Jeff Kingston of the Dodgers, Sara Gelles of the Pirates, maybe Gavin Dickey of the Astros.
I either want one of these great MLB teams vice presidents or like the Dodgers and Mets did year ago get a not big market GM and bring him or her here and give them big money to work with.
He’s upset because of his own lack of business acumen
Blame Soto 😂
The majority of Yankee fans have seen the Yankees win more World Series titles than any other team us Yankee fans are doing just fine
Speak for yourself we haven't won since Arod in 09
@ there’s teams that never win like I said I’ve seen the Yankees win 5 world series titles so far so yeah it sucks that they lost last year but im very confident I’m gonna see the Yankees win more World Series titles in my life so I’m not worried about it
@@Idkyou89 true good point but this is a franchise that's expected to win the fan base isn't used to going so long without winning
Yankees crying poverty is something else
Lol tell that to Rockies fans. SAS is a clown
Mark my words, the yankees will not win a world series until Hal steinbrenner is no longer the owner.
He has a hard time spending like the dodgers yet his team is the richest, in the largest market, has the highest revenue, and one of the top 5 most valuable sports team in the world.
He is a disgrace and the yankee fans need to push for new ownership
Two loud mouths talking , what else is new
Dodgers Baby...
The statements made by the Yankee owner are detrimental to all Yankee fans. If you truly give up Mr Hal, please sell the Yankees to someone like Elon Musk and let's see what Cohen and the Dodgers react to that. Very tired of Hal and his excuses. Sell the team to someone that will fight for us. In addition, players are shunning the Yankees in free agency like Ohtani and Sasaki. Sell the Team !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I like how people are commenting if George was here, but ignore the fact that Gene Michael & Bobb Watson were the main reasons why the Yankees won in 96,98,99, & 00.
Yes, Cashman had a role in this. He traded for Chuck Knoblauch, signed El Due Que, traded for David Justice etc
People love to credit George with winning 7 rings, but ignore that Gabe Paul was the brains behind the operation.
George was suspended both times.
Does everyone forget how George was suspended in 1989 for hiring a hustler Alex Spira, to get information on Dave Winfield’s Foundation. George did not always make good moves. Gene Michael took over , and made some really great trades, the young players from the farm system like Jeter,Pettite,Rivera, and Bernie Williams etc. Some of us Yankee Fans do not expect the team to get every player. If Soto wanted to be a Yankee, he would be a Yankee. The Yankees still struggled last year, even with him. I just would to see a team with good fundamentals, which hasn’t been the last couple of years.
Why is this guy commentating on a sport he don’t know jack about?
I understand where Stephen is coming from, there’s no way in hell George Steinbrenner would have allowed Juan Soto, to sign with the Mets, there’s probably no way he would’ve allowed the Dodgers to sign Shohei Otani either. Big market teams can use the same exact strategy as the Dodgers, buy now and pay later. Obviously there’s a passive aggressiveness on the part ofHal Steinbrenner. All things considered, buying tickets to a Yankee game is the most expensive sporting decision.a consumer could ever make.. in spite of that, when a team from a big market is in the playoffs, people still spend money to attend, the Yankees are one of the biggest money making franchises in all of sports and they have their own network to go with it, so people just want Hal to have some passion as well as a sense of urgency. not to take away from anything, I think the Yankees had a very decent off-season and the team they put on the field this upcoming year will be probably a better team than last season. even so, don’t be afraid to spend some money, it’s not like it’s coming out of your pocket Hal, it’s coming out of the pocket of the season-ticket holders.
Nonsense George wouldn’t have signed either. He never paid top dollar for a FA. Never not Jackson, not Winfield nobody. He sold them on NY and expected a discount and he got it. If he didn’t he passed.
@ so I guess you’re the expert who can tell us why Andy Hawkins, Danny Tartarbull, Rick Roden, and Jack Clark were signed?
If you’re going to come on this thread and pretend to make sense, I think you should find another activity to get into
Hypocrite- Dodgers
Smyth maker.
A disappointed son
Yankee fans crying as usual. Poverty franchise where they talk about the dusty rings that they mostly won in the dino age
A poverty franchise? Really a team whose payroll is over $300M if you’re going to use a word at least know to use it I bet you everything that comes out your mouth is woke because you hear other people use it the wrong way get off social media kid
The dodgers are the new Yankees mystique
7 rings since 1977, the most in baseball in that time, u ever hear of Reggie Jackson? Google if nec, 😆
If Shohei and Yamamoto wanted to join the Yankees, Steinbrenner would be more than happy to pay what they ended up getting. His problem is players don’t want to join his organization. Nothing to do with dodgers out spending other teams
a racist organization
@@garishqualm344
Not racist. We tried to sign Shohei when he 1st became a FA in the '17 off-season, but said that he didn't want to play in the AL East. Hal gave Yamamoto an offer, but he wanted to go to LAD.
If the Yankees were racist they wouldn't have bothered to make them an offer to begin with. Keep in mind that Matsui, Ichiro, Tanaka, Kuroda were all Japanese players who wore pinstripes.
If players don't want to join then there's nothing Hal can do about it.
@Gogeta-w7t But they said Yamamoto ain't gonna get paid more than Cole.
@@garishqualm344
That's true, but Yamamoto was still using the Yankees to get more money not to mention that he hasn't pitched a full season yet.
I'm not a big believer in ERA, but I know that some people are & it was an even 3 & he's only thrown 90 innings. Aside from pitching against us he did poorly in the postseason.
I know that Gerrit Cole made a bonehead decision by not running to 1B, but overall he's proven to be able to pitch in the postseason. Yes, Cole was on the IL with a 3.41 ERA with 95 innings under his belt.
However, Cole has actually proven to be mostly worth his contract.
@@Gogeta-w7tI ain't saying you're wrong, however the way you think is the main reason that no superstars want to go to the Yankees.
Hal= jeanie buss
Hal sucks
Yankees cry way too much for being the yankees..dodgersallday!
Stop talking about baseball when you have zero clue what you are talking about.
Then why are you here, idiot? You didn’t add anything intelligent to this conversation, just talked out of both sides of your unwashed ass, Karen!
More so about the 8.3Billion dollar TV deal, then Ohtani.
she is terrible as a on air personality
Then why are you even watching, stupid?
She's eye candy,no one listens to her comments,
What ever happened to this so called salary cap that the MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL are to abide by ?
There is no salary cap in the MLB, not a restricted one anyway.
@tigera6 There is more than just the baseball cap in the MLB, i am positive there is one, George Steinbrenner was famous for circumnavigating the rule
@ There isnt a salary cap, but there is a luxury tax for teams exceeding the limit. But other than paying extra money for it, there is no other consequence for going over the set limit, unlike the NBA where teams lose ability to sign players if their payroll is too big.
@tigera6 Luxury Tax = Easy on the eyes and wallet ?
Stephen A should not be allowed to talk baseball. Yanks have 300 million dollar payroll. How are they not committed to winning