Next year is already over for the Yankees--NY Sun

(Tim Marchman): "Earlier this year, at the height of their power, before the slow decline of age and injury had fully set in, the Yankees were valued by Forbes magazine at $1.3 billion, on the back of an estimated 2007 revenue of $327 million....which is another way of saying that for all the attention they draw as the richest team in the richest city in the richest nation in the world, the Yankees are —

• judged in the fair scope of things —

• barely a going concern....

Next year, the Yankees, having endured the nearly catastrophic collapse that they've been warned of for years, will be younger, less well paid, chastened,

• and likely worse than they were even this year.

But they'll be better positioned for the long run. They may succeed, and they may well fail, but they'll be within their means, and built on a more solid foundation than they have been for years. Whatever the end of their old park and the rise of their new one might represent, with any luck, it will point up how even the barely going concerns can show the way for the great ones. At their best, that's what the Yankees have done. One can hope they'll do so again."

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