YANKEES 10, GOLDMAN 0

BREAKING VIEWS--"You're either with them-or you hate them. That sums up the way baseball fans feel about the New York Yankees. And that's also why the team, which clinched its 27th World Series on Wednesday night, is the Goldman Sachs of American Sports."

WB7: No there is one big obvious difference between Goldman Sachs and the New York Yankees. Come October each Yankee player knows that destiny can only be decided by the men on the field.

At Team Goldman Sachs, the players all know that when the chips are down, the umpire will make the call in their favor and the Commissioner will make emergency rule changes to save them.

No, Goldman Sachs are not the New York Yankees and every Yankee fan knows it.

If you want to make baseball analogies to Goldman Sachs and Wall Street, read the Bleacher Report:

Cheating in baseball has existed as long as the game itself. From spiking opposing players to stealing signs, doctoring balls and corking bats, cheating has become a part of the game. And it is entirely acceptable, as long as you don't get caught. Often times, opposing teams do not know it is occurring (see the 1951 New York Giants). Other times, everyone knows it is going on, but are unable to prove it (see Gaylord Perry in the 1970s). There are also many incidences where everyone is clueless until the evidence shatters directly in front of them (see anyone who has ever been caught corking a bat). However, any way that you look at it, it's cheating. And it sucks.

What's worse, the punishments for these offenses are meager or non-existent. The list of spitball pitchers is endless, especially in the early part of the 20th century. However, very few of these pitchers have ever been reprimanded - Gaylord Perry was in the Major Leagues for 20 years before he was suspended for doctoring a baseball, and that by no means kept him out of the Hall of Fame. Sammy Sosa's eight game suspension for corking his bat was later reduced to seven games. Albert Belle was originally suspended ten games for his bat corking incident, but that too was reduced to a seven game sentence after an appeal. These type of slap-on-the-wrist punishments have set a precedent for further cheating, such as steroid violations.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/32-cheating-in-baseball



TAKE US OUT TO THE CON GAME
(WilliamBanzai7)

Lloydie Blankfein was subprime mad,
Had the AIG fever and had it bad.
Just to root for the home town crew,
Ev'ry slick scam
Lloydie knew.
One September Saturday as his pinstriped balls turned blue
Uncle Hank called to see what he could do
Before it blows, but Lloyd said said "Oh,
I'll tell you what you can do:"

Take us out to the con game
Let us swindle the crowd.
Sell some securitised peanuts and derivative Cracker Jacks
We don't care if their nest eggs never come back,
'Cause it's loot, loot, loot
For the home team.
We'll always win since it's a grand old scam.
For it's one, two
Too big to fail
At the old con game.

Lloydie Blankfein knew all the Wall Street con games,
Knew all the players by their first names.
Told his old boss Hank his beloved Goldman was gone,
All along,
Good as gone.
When the score was just in and his crew was good as through,
Lloydie knew just what to do,
Just to bailout his busted bank he knew,
He made the Washington gang sing this song:

Take us out to the con game
Let us swindle the crowd.
Sell some securitised peanuts and derivative Cracker Jacks
We don't care if their nest eggs never come back,
'Cause it's loot, loot, loot
For the home team.
We'll always win since it's a grand old scam.
For it's one, two
Too big to fail
At the old con game.