No More Yankees

New York, the world's financial capital, takes money very seriously. And New York has been the intellectual epicenter of political liberalism, which has consistently preached, and has consistently disproved, the efficacy of pitching large sums of money at social problems. In the city where America's welfare state was first imagined and implemented, the entitlement mentality bred by the welfare state includes the assumption that the Yankees are entitled to be in the World Series, which they have not been since -- gasp -- 2003.
-George Will

A very wise man (Deacon Ghee) once suggested this:
Football is like Orthodoxy, because it's traditional but current
Basketball is like Protestantism because it's focused on individuals
Baseball is like Catholicism because it's about ritual and legalism