text: why arent the yankees going anywhere? with a 200 million dollar payroll, which doubles most teams, shouldnt they at least be making it to the world series? money doesn't matter, look at history, its the best team that wins. the yankees are not a team.  jeter hates a-rod, he won't defend a two-time mvp winner, but defends a basically admitted steriod user. no one shows up their for the team and to have fun, its all about winning. you do not win in that environment.  no one plays for each other.  look at the cardinals this year, every wrote them off, but they banded together, under a quality manager, and fought in every game, and played as a team, played together, worked together, had fun, and won.  look at the red sox in 2004, white sox 2005.  old cliche "a champion team will always beat a team of champions"  the best team will win, not the team with the best players or the most expensive payroll.