Call Evil by Its Name!

The Top Ten Ways the Yankees are Like the Republican Party or The Top Ten Ways the Evil Empire is Like the Evil Empire

10. Behind both is a tremendous amount of money.

9. Both believe that they can buy success.

8. For both, success comes at the expense of the little guys.

7. In order to succeed, both play the game in a way that hurts the game.

6. They both rely on pitching more than they should.

5. They both have had better pitchers in the past.

4. They both believe in the slogan "win if you can, cheat if you must" (a.k.a. they both believe that the end justifies the means).

For example: JETER NEVER TAGGED JACQUE JONES, AND HE KNOWS IT! THE SMUG ENTITLEMENT HE SHOWED IN RUNNING BACK TO THE DUGOUT IS ENTIRELY REMINISCENT OF ANOTHER SMUG ENTITLED PERSON I CAN THINK OF! YOU WILL GET YOUR JUST DESERTS, SIR! YOU WILL GET YOUR JUST DESSERTS! JUST LIKE LAST YEAR! HA! I'M NOT INSANE WITH RAGE! HA! I AM NOT INSANE! HA! Hee hee! Ha. Ho. Hum.

3. Both of them cause a lot of suffering among compassionate and caring people - among people who remember a simpler time - among people who remember a time when some things were sacred (like a policy against preemption, like internaitonalism, and like a level playing field) and some things were out of bounds (like push polling and like exploting the fact that your team is in the nation's largest radio and television market and the fact that teams like KC can't realistically compete against you - oh well, it's an accident of birth and just as some underserving folks get to go to Harvard and Yale, some teams get to rake in the cash because they were born in the Bronx).

2. Both rely on jingoism and patriotism to try to make their ugliness seem less ugly.

1. Both will lose to Boston-based victors.