Something about new ballparks

Not big.

Or more like…the new stadium encouraged Cash to spend as much as possible (AJ/CC/Tex) to make sure the first year went off right. Same with 76…the renovation was a sign that Steinbrenner was going to spend more on the team.

Also, the Yankees have a much better chance of going to/winning the WS anyway.

Don’t know what explains ‘23. I looked at their team, and it didn’t look like it changed much between 22 and 23.

Have other teams opening new stadiums had similar success?

won on average one out of every three WS since the first one, I’d say about 33%.

It’s one of the reasons I’ve figured baseball is almost as fixed as wrestling for a long time. Another thing is— the republicans use baseball for propaganda (Giuliani, anyone?) and conveniently, the Yankees (team of corporate oppression in the myths surrounding the game) will not win the World Series while there is a republican president. They are scheduled to win when there is a Dem president, to recast the right in the public imagination as the gritty underdog with lots of character. This past presidential administration was so far to the right that to even things out in the public imagination, the PSY-OPS fellows went SO FAR as to have the Red Sox become World Champs a few times. And we all know that the Red Sox represent the poor and liberal, cough cough.

You can call what I just wrote an insane conspiracy theory because… umm, because it IS, but since steroids and since it turned out that Bobby Thompson knew what pitch was coming and the “Shot Heard Round the World” was fixed, and we know that at least one World Series has been fixed (Black Sox Scandal), it’s not ENTIRELY crazy to openly wonder about such things. At least on cold November nights when there’s no baseball to watch haha.