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So the big money spending New York Yankees won the World Series the other night. After throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at CC Sabathia, Mark Teixeira and A.J. Burnett they finally got back to the World Series and won it. Checking the list of World Series winners I see it had been 8 years since they had won it all. Is all those millions of dollars George Steinbrenner shells out really worth winning a World Series once every eight years.

They did win 3 World Series in a row from 1998- 2000 and have won a total of 7 since George Steinbrenner and a group of investors bought the New York Yankees for 10 million dollars back in 1973, that’s 7 World Series wins in 30 years. In the 96 years since they’ve been named the New York Yankees they have won a total of 27 World Series titles. I don’t really know when team owners started shelling out big bucks for free agents but I’m sure the majority of the Yankees titles and other teams as well was won without the big payrolls that you see today.

You’ve probably guessed that I’m not a big New York Yankees fan and I’m not. I just think spending hundreds of millions of dollars for top free agents is not good for baseball. It’s not just the Yankees, several teams spend big bucks on players and the majority of the other teams are left fielding good players but have no chance in getting the great ones they would need to make their team better.

Luckily spending big bucks usually doesn’t lead to winning the World Series. The Yankees are a perfect example of that, in 30 years under The Boss’s ownership they’ve won 7 titles. So George is batting .233, when you look at it that way George is very mediocre

Knuckleballer Tim Wakefield of the Boston Red Sox took a no hitter into the 8th inning yesterday against the Oakland A’s. Unfortunately he gave up a single to Kurt Suzuki and ultimately settled for a complete game 4 hitter allowing 2 runs.

Boston ended up winning the game 8-2 thanks to home runs by J.D Drew and Mike Lowell.

It was just announced that Boston Red Sox pitcher Josh Beckett has been suspended for 6 games and fined for throwing at Los Angeles Angels Bobby Abreu. The incident occurred this past Sunday when Beckett took an unusual amount of time between pitches so Abreu called time and Beckett went ahead and threw the ball and it went straight for Abreu’s head. Beckett left the mound and went toward home plate, further inciting the incident

 Why he wasn’t tossed from the game then I don’t understand but I do understand the suspension. That Major League baseball trying to get something right after the umpires screwed up. If Beckett was thrown out of the game on Sunday he probably wouldn’t have gotten suspended.

Man its just strange how we have so many people in the sports world dying lately. Just in the last week alone there has been three deaths. First was Los Angeles Angels rookie pitcher Nick Adenhart killed when a drunk driver ran a red light. Then yesterday there was two deaths. Former Detroit Tiger pitcher Mark “The Bird” Fidrych was killed in a accident on his Massachusetts farm when a dump truck crushed him. Then Philadelphia Phillies announcer Harry Kalas died suddenly yesterday.

Mark “The Bird” Fidrych was born in Worcester,Massachusetts and played only four seasons for the Detroit Tigers. He made the All- Star team twice in 1976 and 1977 and was also voted Rookie of the year in 1976. He had a career record of 29-19 and a lifetime E.R.A. of 3.10. His career was cut short due to a torn rotator cuff.

Harry Kalas was born in Naperville, Illinois and got his start in broadcasting in 1962 while in the army calling games for a minor league Hawaiian team. His first major league team he worked for was the Houston Colts which later became the Astros. He was hired by the Philadelphia Phillies in 1971 and also by NFL Films in 1975. The work he did for NFL Films is how I will always remember him. I loved watching those old NFL shows and hearing his voice on them.

I think there is something more serious wrong with the Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Cole Hamels than the Phillies management is saying. Last night he was hit hard in his first start of the season. He gave up 11 hits and 7 runs in only 3 2/3 innings.

Hamels had to miss some of spring training due to his elbow hurting but he had a MRI and the Phillies said the results were good and there was no sign of damage to his elbow. Hamels pitched 262 inning last season and was a big part of the Philadelphia Phillies winning the World Series over the Tampa Bay Ray’s.

He was named MVP of the World Series last season, it would be a shame if anything turned out to be seriously wrong with his arm.