Years ago, the saying about Yankees fans was that rooting for the New York Yankees was like rooting for U.S. Steel. Let's modernize it a bit: Rooting for the 2009 World Series champion New York Yankees is like rooting for AIG. The Yankees are the perfect symbol for the times - bloated excess. While the federal government was bailing out AIG, the Yankees were charging thousands of dollars for the best tickets in a new $1.6 billion ballpark paid for in part with public funding and tax bre...