Hey, let's ease up here....Fanfrom1960 is a great poster and he is not trying to be intentionally negative, just tossing out another topic for discussion on a messageboard meant for such things.
Now to my thoughts....I have heard us compared to the Yankees already (the successful teams that everyone grew to hate, not the current spending monsters who can't get anywhere
) but I take it you are looking more at the current Yankees. As others have noted, the salary cap really is the big difference. Now expectations-wise, I think you have a interesting point....people WILL expect us to win every week, win the SB, etc. I'd like to think our team puts a ton of pressure on themselves to do that anyway. Our core group of leaders is pretty used to pressure, and will help the new guys with the pressure too, hopefully.
I don't think we are the Yankees. Nor are we the Redskins (although "Redskins with a brain" cracked me up). We are building a better team with what resources we have through free agency AND the draft. The Redksins go out and sign flashy people (Deion Sanders, anyone?) to get fans excited every year without regard to whether the players are a good fit for the team, or even really necessary. And they don't value the draft much at all.
Just because we have some money to spend and we have spent it on good talent to shore up positions that were badly in need of some help, doesn't make us arrogant and stupid, like the abovementioned examples. at least not in my opinion.