got rings?

[totient]

Rings owned by Red Sox current active roster members: Drew Crisp Kotsay (for Florida) Cora Pedroia Delcarmen Matsuzaka Beckett 2 (1 for Florida) Youkilis 2 Lowell 3 (1 for the Yankees and 1 for Florida) Lester Varitek 2 Ortiz 2 Okajima Hansack Ellsbury Lopez Wakefield 2 Timlin 4 (2 for Toronto) Bailey Papelbon

Total: 31, of which 25 earned in Boston.

rings owned by Yankees current active roster members: Jeter 4 I. Rodriguez (for Florida) Damon (for Boston) Moeller (for Arizona) Molina (for Anaheim) Marte (for the White Sox) Rivera 4 Pavano (for Florida) Pettite 4 Ponson (for St. Louis)

Total: 19, of which 12 earned in New York.

Comments

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure what point this proves, aside from "The Red Sox won more recently, and recently enough where most of the winning players haven't retired or gone elsewhere, and the Yankees haven't done either." Given that the Yankees haven't won in 8 years, it's wholly unsurprising that almost none of the players from then are still on their active roster.

Not that I'm saying you shouldn't pick on the Yankees, I'm just noting the cherry-picking of a meaningless statistic from the perspective of someone who views every Sox-Yankees series as a chance to root for 'Stadium collapse, wiping out both teams'. :P

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

And yes, I do appreciate the fact that Yankees fans are the KINGS of cherry-picking meaningless statistics.

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

which is exactly the point: a popular Yankees bragging shirt is entitled "got rings" and lists, mostly irrelevantly, all the years that the Yankees have won the World Series.

[carneggy.livejournal.com]

Ah, I haven't seen that shirt. Unsurprisingly, demonstrative Yankees fans are a tiny, tiny minority around here, especially this year.

[scholargipsy.livejournal.com]

But you didn't answer the most important question of all: How many MLB players are now irrevocably fallen to Sauron?

Three Rings for the Yankee wanks to begin our verse,
Seven for the Blue Jays in their frozen home,
Nine for the Red Sox now no longer cursed,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them,
One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

[palmwiz.livejournal.com]

I think it's pretty clear that the Steinbrenner family are the Ringwraiths of baseball.

[rikibeth.livejournal.com]

&hearts

brightens my day, this does.

Less has yielded more

[c1.livejournal.com]

Next metric, and it's probably a more salient one:
How many of the current roster (speaking of the old towne team, here) were brought on board after the Yawkey/Harrington era? And then balance that with the lower payroll (by not trying to buy greatness, but rather by developing a more robust farm system) of Boston v. the Evil Empire.