I grew up outside of Toronto, where Blue Jays fans routinely accused the Yankees of supposedly “buying” their championships. My 12th-grade history teacher, a welcome voice of reason, used to say that getting mad at the Yankees for signing free agents to expensive contracts was as pointless as getting mad at a rich person for buying an expensive car.
Fast-forward 11 years. The Yankees have won exactly zero championships and I’m now a jaded old man yelling at a cloud. After yet another disappointing season in an unacceptably long line of disappointing seasons, Yankees fans are once again waiting with bated breath to see what the team does this offseason.