Are the Yanks cursed?

Yes, I totally believe that it all started in 2000. We all prayed and blew the load on beating the stupid Muts and we could have never lived that down. That being said, God has punished us now and we have to wait until the curse is lifted, we pray harder or the Babe himself comes and visits the new park, thought he did last week against that Mets but think that was just Thurm popping in and give one to us.

for making the suggestion. The Yanks have undoubtedly suffered some serious heartbreak since Paul O’Neill and Scott Brosius’ last game (which happened to be Gm7 2001) and the bust trades you mentioned and don’t forget the clubhouse cancers (Johnson,Lofton,Sheffield, Mondesi) never REALLY helped the cause……and what is even worse…………..Mo has looked mortal as of late.

First off, it was impossible for the “curse” to have been reversed back in 2001 on account of the Red Sox didn’t win the World Series until 2004. So the 2001 and 2003 World Series losses weren’t unlike any other loss the Yankees had in the World Series before that.

Now, starting in 2004, I can see where you’re coming from that horrendus ALCS loss after being up 3-0. To me, a “curse” implies a team (usually a decent one that makes it somewhere each season) that always seems to find a way to lose when it most counts (i.e. Rex Sox from 1918-2004 and Cubs 1908-Present) or something bizarre occurs where the game is totally blown (Aaron Boone’s HR vs. Boston in 2003 or Joba’s bugs vs. Cleveland in 2007). Maybe you could argue for a curse, but I think we are all going to have to wait at least 25-30 years to really come to a conclusion. As for now, the only curse that exists in baseball is the one on the Cubbies. I don’t believe in a Yankee one.

Just tossing this out there…tried to go away twice and count the performance stuff makes three…yet we welcome him bac k, the Yankees have been looked at differently since we have had him, remember how we were feard and respected from 94 on…since he is here and yes I know he has a ton of talent and prob the best in the game when healthy, teams dont respect him, mock him, he brings BS to the clubhouse, etc…maybe we are better with a .280, great fielding, clucth 3B…too late now, he’s ours.
Thoughts?

PS – I still think beating the Mets in 2000 was the one that did us in, we all called in chips for that one for not to loose.

No championships during that time and there was no talk of curses. We as fans got spoiled in the late 90s… sure I want the Yanks to win the WS every year- but it just doesn’t happen nowadays. Am I disappointed when they don’t? Of course. But I know a lot of fans of teams in this league who would LOVE their team to be cursed the way the Yanks are.

My two cents.

dont you feel its 82-89 all over again….them were some rough years, 70-75 also…if not for thurm and donnie, i would have rolled over! scooter also…made the play by play worth the pain watching the games….

that’ll break whatever curse and send cashman to the sox as a scout, ship eiland and long to tampa as player development reps, lets get a keg and call it a day and wait about 2-3 years for another run

Think about it. The last time the Yankees won the World Series, Zim was the bench coach. I was only 6 years old when I first watched the Yankees win it all in 1996 and I always liked watching that “old guy” sitting on the bench and seeing Jeter rub his head for good luck.

Now, after an 8 year World Series victory drought and a 5 year World Series appearance drought, I have come to notice an astonishing trend. Don Zimmer joined the Yankees as their bench coach in 1996. What happened that year? They won their first World Series since 1978. Then in 1998, 1999, and 2000? World Series. All with Zim on the bench. 2003? They made it to the World Series with Zim there. (Maybe a bit of luck fell out when Pedro threw him down in Boston). Now Don Zimmer is with the Rays, and looks where they went last season. Albeit they win the World Series, but I think that was more on account of their lack of experience.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying those Yankee teams from 1996,1998,1999,2000,etc. didn’t have good players. Those guys were amazing beyond a shadow of doubt. Jeter, Knoblach, Wiliams, Brosious, Wells, Clemens, Rivera, O’Neill, Strawberry, Posada, Girardi, El Duque, etc were/are awesome and some of the greatest players of the game. Personally, I would rank the 1998 Yankees up there with the 1927 team as one of the best all-time.

So, maybe it’s actually Don Zimmer is who the Yankees need. Now, I doubt that this is the case and if it’s true or not, but I’m just putting it out there for dicussion…

there torree sat, we all watched, zim and mel as bookends, jose, chris and willie as coaches…so that’s about 200 years of baseball…and they f’d over zim in the end as I recall, even though he took a cheat shot from pedro, who I HEARD TODAY, the yanks are considering, as well as, early reports, papelbon would be open to coming to yanks as a FA…

Suzyn Waldman

since 2000, that’s 9 years ago. 9 years equals a curse now????

Poorly run, from letting that same coach go to signing and trading for the wrong players to getting rid of the wrong players (Alfonson Soriano’s one of the most clutch players in the game, Ted Lilly’s not a bad pitcher either).

But Curse? I know some fans feel the right to be in the WS every year, but its really not even like the team has missed that, they were in it in 2003.

We’ll talk about ‘curse’ 50 years from now and the team is still run like this.

how the heck did he rise so fast, does he have nude pics of someone in the org? he has ruined this team….

curses dont exist. They exist only to annoy the opposing team’s fans!!! shhhhhh

It’s name is Cashman!!!