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Hank Steinbrenner rips Dodgers, 2006 Cardinals
Many people have been impressed with the Los Angeles Dodgers' recent turnaround, one which will likely land Joe Torre's club in the postseason next week. Just don't count Hank Steinbrenner among them. Steinbrenner, the Yankees' co-chairman, ripped Major League Baseball's divisional system in a column in this week's Sporting News, saying that the format allows teams to make the postseason even if their records don't.
"The biggest problem is the divisional setup in major league baseball. I didn't like it in the 1970s, and I hate it now," Steinbrenner wrote. "Baseball went to a multidivision setup to create more races, rivalries and excitement. But it isn't fair. You see it this season, with plenty of people in the media pointing out that Joe Torre and the Dodgers are going to the playoffs while we're not. This is by no means a knock on Torre - let me make that clear-but look at the division they're in. If L.A. were in the AL East, it wouldn't be in the playoff discussion. The AL East is never weak."
Los Angeles entered Tuesday night's game with a 81-75 record, enough for a two-game lead over Arizona in the NL West. The Yankees entered the final week at 85-71, but that was only good for third place in the AL East.
"I'm happy for Joe, but you have to compare the divisions and the competition," Steinbrenner wrote. "What if the Yankees finish the season with more wins than the Dodgers but the Dodgers make the playoffs? Does that make the Dodgers a better team? No."
Steinbrenner also questioned the legitimacy of the Cardinals' 2006 title, noting that their 83 regular-season victories were two less than the Phillies' total, but because of the system, St. Louis reached the playoffs as NL Central champs while Philadelphia lost the wild card race to the Dodgers, who had 88 wins.
My thoughts on Hank
Hank, Hank Hank!!!!!!
What ya talking about Hank, feeling alittle tic off that your high priced Bronx bombers didn't make it to the playoffs for the first time in a thousand years
Come'on Hank, shouldn't you be reflecting on the closing of a American Icon after it's great 85-year history, Yankee Stadium, you know, the house that Ruth built, where on a April afternoon in 1923 Babe Ruth hit the first home run at Yankee Stadium off of a pitch tossed by Bob Shawkey of the Boston Red Sox, you gotta love the irony of it, I do
Come'on Hank, you missed your chance to tell the world about the Bronx Zoo, one of a kind and the great Yankee player's who played there, the Bronx bombers, those damn Yanks who graced that field of real dreams or any baseball field, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Roger Marris to just name a few not to mention some of the most color full mangers that ever managed, you missed your chance Hank and decided to act more like your father George Steinbrenner and whine because your Yanks finally missed the playoffs, you do a injustice to the great Yankees of days gone by and today, shame on you
The Dodgers and 2006 Cardinals are playing by and did the rules of the new system which your Yankees agreed to just like the rest of major league baseball when the not so new multidivision setup was made, please stop crying
because your high payroll players will be sitting at home watching the playoffs on their high def 12 foot TV screens and eating popcorn and downing a cold beer 
You shame the Yankees with your whining, the Yanks deserved better then you Steinbrenner's
A true fan of the game, General Ray
Many people have been impressed with the Los Angeles Dodgers' recent turnaround, one which will likely land Joe Torre's club in the postseason next week. Just don't count Hank Steinbrenner among them. Steinbrenner, the Yankees' co-chairman, ripped Major League Baseball's divisional system in a column in this week's Sporting News, saying that the format allows teams to make the postseason even if their records don't.
"The biggest problem is the divisional setup in major league baseball. I didn't like it in the 1970s, and I hate it now," Steinbrenner wrote. "Baseball went to a multidivision setup to create more races, rivalries and excitement. But it isn't fair. You see it this season, with plenty of people in the media pointing out that Joe Torre and the Dodgers are going to the playoffs while we're not. This is by no means a knock on Torre - let me make that clear-but look at the division they're in. If L.A. were in the AL East, it wouldn't be in the playoff discussion. The AL East is never weak."
Los Angeles entered Tuesday night's game with a 81-75 record, enough for a two-game lead over Arizona in the NL West. The Yankees entered the final week at 85-71, but that was only good for third place in the AL East.
"I'm happy for Joe, but you have to compare the divisions and the competition," Steinbrenner wrote. "What if the Yankees finish the season with more wins than the Dodgers but the Dodgers make the playoffs? Does that make the Dodgers a better team? No."
Steinbrenner also questioned the legitimacy of the Cardinals' 2006 title, noting that their 83 regular-season victories were two less than the Phillies' total, but because of the system, St. Louis reached the playoffs as NL Central champs while Philadelphia lost the wild card race to the Dodgers, who had 88 wins.
My thoughts on Hank
Hank, Hank Hank!!!!!!
What ya talking about Hank, feeling alittle tic off that your high priced Bronx bombers didn't make it to the playoffs for the first time in a thousand years
Come'on Hank, shouldn't you be reflecting on the closing of a American Icon after it's great 85-year history, Yankee Stadium, you know, the house that Ruth built, where on a April afternoon in 1923 Babe Ruth hit the first home run at Yankee Stadium off of a pitch tossed by Bob Shawkey of the Boston Red Sox, you gotta love the irony of it, I do
Come'on Hank, you missed your chance to tell the world about the Bronx Zoo, one of a kind and the great Yankee player's who played there, the Bronx bombers, those damn Yanks who graced that field of real dreams or any baseball field, Babe Ruth, Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Roger Marris to just name a few not to mention some of the most color full mangers that ever managed, you missed your chance Hank and decided to act more like your father George Steinbrenner and whine because your Yanks finally missed the playoffs, you do a injustice to the great Yankees of days gone by and today, shame on you
The Dodgers and 2006 Cardinals are playing by and did the rules of the new system which your Yankees agreed to just like the rest of major league baseball when the not so new multidivision setup was made, please stop crying
because your high payroll players will be sitting at home watching the playoffs on their high def 12 foot TV screens and eating popcorn and downing a cold beer You shame the Yankees with your whining, the Yanks deserved better then you Steinbrenner's
A true fan of the game, General Ray
now thats irony 