New York Yankees (95-55) at LA Angels of Anaheim (89-60), 10:05 pm Kansas City Star
22.02.99
With both teams closing in on capturing postseason berths, the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim will start up a key three-match September series tonight at Angel Stadium.</p><p>New York heads to Southern California owning a five-courageous lead on hard-charging Boston in the American League's East Division, while the two-time defending AL West victor Angels currently sport a 7 1/2-game advantage on slumping Texas for the top spot in their separation. Anaheim has a magic number of seven for clinching the West, while New York's stands at nine at the moment.</p><p>The Yankees can also clinch at least a untrammelled card spot by posting a win tonight, or if Texas loses at Oakland this evening.</p><p>The Angels increased their latitude with Sunday's 10-5 victory over Texas in Arlington, which gave the club two wins in that important three-willing set between the foes.</p><p>"There's still a lot of baseball left," said Angels manager Mike Scioscia afterward. "Successful [Sunday] puts us closer to our goal, but we have to keep this ball rolling."</p><p>Howie Kendrick paced Anaheim's abominable outburst in yesterday's triumph by going 3-for-5 with a home run and five RBI. Gary Matthews Jr. and Chone Figgins also homered on the afternoon, with Matthews knocking in three runs while finishing 2-for 3.</p><p>John Lackey benefited from his pair's strong hitting to pick up his 11th win of the season. The standout righty was reached for five runs (4 earned) on seven hits in working the first six innings.</p><p>The Yankees destroyed two games to the surging Red Sox in the standings after dropping two of three tests in Seattle over the weekend, including a 7-1 setback in Sunday's finale. Boston very recently put together a three-game sweep in Baltimore and has won 10 of its last 11 matchups.</p><p>The Mariners struck early and often against New York starter Joba Chamberlain on Sunday, as the juvenile right-hander surrendered all seven Seattle runs on six hits before being removed after only three innings.</p><p>"I let my teammates down," said Chamberlain. "It's quite much embarrassing what I did, not being able to pick my team up trying to get out of here with a series win."</p><p>New York managed only a run and four hits in 5 1/3 innings against Seattle's Ian Snell, with Jorge Posada's RBI magnify in the sixth spoiling a shutout bid. Mark Teixeira ended 3-for-4 with a pair of doubles in a losing matter.</p><p>The Yankees turn to Andy Pettitte tonight in hopes of getting back on track. The experienced lefty has been coming through over the practice of the season's second half, as he's won five straight decisions and hasn't lost in nine starts since a July 25 whip to Oakland. New York is 7-2 over that stretch.</p><p>Pettitte could not lead the Yanks to a victory his last time out, however. In a 10-4 make clear loss to Baltimore on September 11, the 37-year-old allowed three runs over five innings and did not reputation a decision. He then had his subsequent turn in the rotation skipped to rest a sore throwing shoulder.</p><p>The two-nonetheless All-Star also wasn't sharp in a loss at Angel Stadium on July 11, when Pettitte was tagged for six runs and seven hits before exiting after lawful 4 1/3 innings. In 27 career regular-season starts versus the Halos, he's gone 12-9 with a 4.70 earned run normal.</p><p>Pettitte will be trying to provide the Yankees with some rare recent success as the visitor in this series. New York has lost eight of its last nine tilts at Angel Coliseum and was swept in a three-game set there in mid-July.</p><p>Joe Saunders, who gets the call for the Angels this evening, will also be looking to extend an unbeaten run of his own. Since returning from a close-fisted three-week stint on the disabled list with a sore shoulder, the 2008 All-Star has amassed a 4-0 minutes with an excellent 2.10 ERA in five starts and yielded two runs or less in all but one of those outings.</p><p>Saunders did have a four-start win streak halted in Wednesday's 9-8 extinction to Boston at Fenway Park. The steady southpaw permitted five runs, only two of which were earned, and eight hits over a unstable 5 2/3 innings.</p><p>The 28-year-old was also hit hard by the Yankees in a matchup at Angel Stadium back on July 10, giving up five runs and nine hits in unbiased five innings. In four career encounters with New York, Saunders is 1-1 with a subpar 7.97 ERA.
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How did the New York Yankees become the richest baseball club in Major League Baseball?
Jan 20, 2008 by Mr. Knowledgeable VI | Posted in Baseball
The New York Yankees are the richest baseball association in Major League Baseball and possibly the richest ball club in the world. The team is mankind millions of dollars and they pay the players very well and are currently building a New Yankee Stadium costing millions and millions of dollars.
How did the New York Yankees become the richest baseball bat in Major League Baseball and what is their success to being financally secured ball club?
Being located in New York See certainly helps, but historically the Yankees have made some fantastic business decisons over the years. Steinbrenner bought the work together for $10 million from CBS in 1973. The team is now valued at 1.2 billion dollars.
The Yankees generate more revenues than any other sports franchise in America. Here are the figures for 2006:
REVENUE:
Ticket sales = $117 million (4.178 million tickets @ $28 avg)
YES Network TV/transmit rights = $60 million
Major League TV and licensing = $30 million
Concessions = $10 million
Sponsorships and advertising = $30 million
Reward seating = $27 million
Local radio = $13 million
Catering = $5 million
Other = $10 million
Amount to = $302 million
OPERATING COSTS:
Player salaries = $195 million
Major Conspiring with revenue-sharing fees = $70 million
Major League luxury tax = $25 million
Ground operations = $20 million
Travel and training = $20 million
TOTAL = $330 million
2006 Sum total = $28 million loss
HOW IT WORKS:
Yankees management plays two games. The first is the day-to-day running of the team. Fifty-one thousand fans pay an generally of $28 to come to 81 home games, where they suck down sodas and hot dogs for $4.50 each, generating half the work together’s sales. The other half comes from $140 million in ad deals and media rights. The largest expense is better costs, which run about $200 million a year, and then there’s league revenue sharing and the costs of flying the side around the country. But eking out a marginal profit on operations is hardly the aim. The bigger game they’re playing is maximizing the value of the party itself. No need to worry about last year’s $28 million loss, when its value rose $200 million, to $1.2 billion. “Like a portion of property in New York City, it’s really not an annual profit-and-loss-based business,” says Joseph Perello, former foible-president of business development. The Yankees—read Steinbrenner—also own more than a third of the YES network, which broadcasts Yankees games to 8.7 million subscribers. The network’s revenues top a direction billion and its profit margin is 60 percent. Though a completely separate business from the Yankees, YES’s value is in a little while tied to how much interest people have in the team, making a $200 million payroll a very easy decision.
By purchasing a joint business - a cable network like YES - they rake in ever more profits. A very smart move by Steinbrenner and staff.
They also run a constricting ship - the Yankees staff is a mere 200 in New York, including the players and the Staten Island farm conspire. Most stadium staffers are contracted out.
More good news: The Yankees will get a break on their revenue sharing bill when they open their $800 million collaborate-financed new stadium in 2009. Teams can deduct stadium operations expenses including construction costs from the revenues proper to be shared with low revenue teams.
They are called the "Evil Empire" by other clubs (as a rule Boston) but they are the model franchise that all other MLB teams should copy.
DodgerDave | Jan 20, 2008
they're located in new york metropolis....one of the richest and biggest cities in America.
they got tons of fans, which means more revenue, ad, tv nevertheless, more fans around the world........all that adds up to $$$$$$$$$$$$$
King Felix | Jan 20, 2008
When Was the first time the New York Yankees won the world series?
Feb 22, 6569 by D.Torres | Posted in Baseball
I dire to know.
And if you can give me more facts about the New York Yankees, please do so.
The New York yankees became a MLB get in 1903. Their first World Series win was in 1923, and they have won a total of 26 World Series. Their most recent WS win was in 2000, and they have played in a unalloyed of 39 World Series. They have a heated rivalry win the Boston Red Sox.
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How would I break up the entire New York Yankees history into a 10 page research paper?
Mar 26, 2009 by Matt | Posted in Baseball
I desideratum to write a 10 page paper for my English class and I can write it on anything I want. I decided to inscribe about the history of the New York Yankees but I don't exactly know how to split it up into sections. There's just so much to write about, please help me with some ideas! Thanks!
Pick the 10 biggest events in Yankees relation and write one page on each. Suggestions:
1. Babe Ruth coming to the Yankees. Detail the event.
2. The 1927 season. (Ruth's 60 HRs).
3. Lou Gehrig (his employment and his 2130 consecutive games)
4. Yankees 5 straight world series titles (1949-1953)
5. Joe DiMaggio (career and 56 target dissemble hitting streak)
6. Mickey Mantle (triple crown season of 1956)
7. The 1961 season (many over this team to be the greatest of all time) Talk about the Mantle-Maris home run race as they both chased Babe Ruth's segregate season record. The reaction when Maris finally gets his 61st HR.
8. The late 70's teams. (The Bronx Zoo and Mr. October).
9. The extraordinary Don Mattingly.
10. Finally talk about Joe Torre,Derek Jeter, the 90's and the 4 world series championships.
You might hunger for to touch on the steroid issue and how it directly effected the Yankees organization. (Giambi, A-Rod, Roger Clemens and others).
Laudatory luck
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