Top 5: Reasons to hate the Yankees

There are tons of reasons to hate the Yankees, but in honor of their 2009 World Series championship, here are my top 5.










5. Fans- Now that they won again, New Yorkers can get on their high horses for a whole year. (Like if New Yorkers really needed THIS to get on their high horses.)









4. Roiders- All is well in Yankeeland. A-Rod and Pettite are the heroes of the World Series! and everyone forgot that they're probably hopped up on the juice. (But who cares, right? They won.)









3. The overrated overdog- Everyone wanted and hoped the Phillies could beat the Yanks. Ryan Howard was swinging like a mad-man, Pedro seemed like a secret weapon, Cole Hammels was going to hit his stride again, and their bats looked better than the Yankees. WISHFUL THINKING! After Cliff Lee, the entire pitching staff was terrible and had been terrible. Pedro is old and had been getting lucky. Hammels was never going to hit his stride because he didn't want to, and their swagger didn't match their game. Yankees exposed them, outcoached them and this could have been avoided if a true underdog would have gotten in and embarrased the Yankees yet again.









2. Thier TV announcer.









1. They bought the championship- Great run. Great season, whatever. They spent a billion dollars to outbid every single team in the league and buy the best players that were available. I know economics is the name of the game, but save it for Monopoly. Any team that can buy whoever they want is a favorite to win and it's that much sweeter when it backfires. For 8 years it backfired for the Yanks; they finally paid enough.