Derek Jeter "expects to win" because he has won it all before and because the Yanks are consistently in the hunt to win it all. Duh. He's arrogant in the same way that most if not all big winners are. So? Saying you "expect to win" after winning it 4 times is certainly striving for excellence and very understandable. And what is with the perpetual whining about the Yankees current payrollt. OMG, an owner who turns a $10 million dollar investment into a $1 billion franchise, actually spends money to try and put the best team he can on the field, runs his team well and is (gasp) spending the team's money to build a new stadium rather than trying to blackmail and/or sucker the city. The horrors.

Other big market teams or deep pocket owners could pony up, but nah, it's better to whine and collect the luxury tax and have some of the public pretend that the league is divided between the Yanks and the "poor sisters" teams.

"Saying that someone "expects to win" is not a substantive difference. Expecting to win did not propel the Yankees past the White Sox, Red Sox, Angels, Marlins or Diamondbacks who have all won World Series titles more recently than the Yankees. I assume that each of these teams would qualify as the "usual also rans" to which Kstone refers."

In musical terms, it's called one hit wonders. No, not all those teams are also rans, but certainly the White Sox, Marlins and Diamondbacks. Yes, they won titles more recently than the Yanks but they are normally also rans. What did the White Sox do before they won? The Diamondbacks didn't do much before and haven't done much since and the Marlins are almost the literal definition of feast or famine. The Red Sox have been consistently good over the years and the Angels have been okay.

"Saying that you "expect to win" is not a sign of excellence, it is a sign of arrogance. In other words, it's the kind of thing you get to say when you use your massive payroll to hire the best players. But it does not reflect some magical superior attitude that lets the Yankees achieve beyond their means and abilities."

That's just silly. I never said it did. Again, a guy who has won several times before saying he expects to win in the future, especially if his team is usually in contention, is not out of the ordinary, or particularly arrogant, at all. But I love the payroll whine in general because it allows folks to talk out of both sides of their mouths. First, the payroll is an unfair advantage and the reason why they're succesful but then it really doesn't matter because they haven't won the WS since 2000. lol.

"Right? Reese's # of rings = 1, Rodriguez's = 0"

Pokey Reese = 1

Ted Willimas = 0

Carl Yaz = 0

Carlton Fisk = 0

Freddy Lynn = 0

Jim Rice = 0

Roger Clemens = 1 (with the Yankees)

Wade Boggs = 1 (with the Yankees)

"Pollard is in jail for supplying intelligence to Israel that we agreed to give them but didn't actually give them.

If the bank owes you $1million, but refuses to give it to you, can anyone really blame you for breaking into the vault one night and taking it back?"

You might even earn yourself a jail cell right next to Pollard's richly deserved one. That's about the craziest analogy I've seen in awhile.

The myopia would almost be funny if it wasn't so predictable. How has it taken for the US to disarm and subdue an armed radical militia who for a time held sway over a particular part of the country and had members in the government - anybody ever hear of the Klu Klux Klan? Let's see from it's first incarnation in 1866 until.......

Also, how many small radical armed militias exist in this country right now? Dozens? What happens when the feds try to disarm them? The NRA and it's sympathizers scream - 2nd Amendment!!!! But really, they're harmless. Unless they're blowing up federal builidings in Ok. City, but that's okay because they're not "ISLAMOFASCISTS"!!!!! and apparently that's all that matters.

"what exactly was that legally binding agreement?"

Indeed. Yeah, a "legally binding agreement". Well, if that was the case then all he had to do was produce that supposed agreement and poof! he would've been off the hook for espionage and wouldn't be rotting away in a jail cell now. Strange that didn't happen. I wonder why?

that you're apparently proud of your ignorance about the article. She's not blaming white guys for anything. She's just talking about the tenor of most of the articles written by them before she arrived in Beruit. I guess you're hoping nobody reads the 90+% you "missed".

First, it was a legally binding agreement but now it's a "memo of mutual understanding". Uh okay...but the idea that it's near libelous to call someone a traitor or treasonus when they committed espionage is somewhat dubious.