Comments on: Why Not Us?

By: native american

native american — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

i don’t see how you can complain about NYY fan behavior late in the game (which was less than human) while wearing a Yankee Hater hat. one, yankee hater hats are sort of ugly. Two, they’re emblematic of the sort of problem, taking more joy in the other guy losing than your guy winning, that you’re bitching about. So get yr mind right.

By: Morcy

Morcy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t see the two the same way at all. First, the YH hat is a lark. Mostly since hate is funny. Second, I said this is for one day—as soon as I got the YH hat, I felt awkward about wearing it, for the reasons you cite. The Yanks fan prof I mention saw me this morning on his bike, and I hoped for a sec he wouldn’t recognise the hat. Finally, the main point about all of this is that, when all the chips are in the pot, the Sox are going to the World Series. That they humiliated the Yanks is second. Compare, I think, this post to the Sports Guy’s, which is all about what a sense of relief it’s been to beat the Yanks. That’s all his dad has to say when he wakes him up. I woke up this morning with tingles when I heard Lisa Labuz or whoever on the radio say that the Sox were going to World Series.

I want a ring. I would have been as excited after beating the Twins.

That all said, I fucking haaaaaaate the Yankees. I hate their smug attitudes. I hate that it seems totally acceptable for me to heckle them about dead family members (hi, Paul O’Neill!) because they are so congenitally evil. Recall Leyritz’s interview where he said he was rooting for the Yanks. What an asshole. Who looks like a biker Hector Elizondo. If you like baseball, you root for the Red Sox in that series, and baseball has been berry, berry good to Leyritz. More later. I’m late for class.

By: Cabrera Lover

Cabrera Lover — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I’m hoping to hear more about your Mia Hamm theory. He shuld have known that stealing another’s man’s wife was a bad idea.

By: andi

andi — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

As odd as it sounds, I felt a renewed hope in all that is good in America immediately after game 7. Part of my thoughts were captured in this letter to the editor in today’s NYT: “After a grueling struggle, a tenacious underdog from Boston defeated an aggressive, overfinanced and arrogant rival. This come-from-behind victory avenges last season’s heartbreaking defeat and, as Mr. Vecsey implies, restores the faith of many in a national tradition. Which raises the question: Is what’s good for baseball good for politics as well?”

By: Puma

Puma — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Mo, the Sox fans in Yankee Stadium weren’t chanting “Who’s your daddy?” They were chanting “Who’s your caddie?” Get it? I swear this is true.

By: Morcy

Morcy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Look. I think it’s the Sports Guy that said that rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house. When Yankees fans, who should be happy with all their success and rings, and so on, cheer for Boston to lose, tragically, WHILE GETTING THEIR ASSES KICKED, shows that the fans have no grasp of what it means to root for a team.

I root against the Yankees since I root against the house. As I explained to a friend last night—the Sox aren’t the team of virtue. They’re just a few mill less evil than the Yanks. But the Yanks built the despicable camp, and they’re the head that needs to be chopped off.

As you know, Pete, I’m a huge Brazil fan. The greatest soccer national team ever—more World Cups by two than any other nation. In a way, the Yankees of soccer, except for instead of buying cups, they economically depress a huge portion of the population who turns to soccer to make money or something. My point here is, if Brazil were playing a team with a great history of choking spectacularly against them (hi, Italy!), would I, should Brazil fall behind and then equalise, start cheering “Baaaggio…. Baaaaaggio”? Of course not. I want my team to win, first.

I’ll root against Italy in all the other matches they play. Fucking Italians.

By: Morcy

Morcy — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Was “19, 18″ then a list of Jeter and A-Rod’s respective handicaps?

I gotta say. I loved the whole “A-Rod to the Sox” thing, since I liked getting rid of Nomar. But in a way, I’m relishing his plunge into goat status in New York.

To which I offer this: http://hexachord.net/alcs/

Up two games on the Cards, I’m liking things. I wanted to go 1-1, so as to make a six or seven-game series more likely, but, I think I’ll take a WS win without my being in Boston to celebrate it.

Did I just jinx? No. Fuck you.

Also, Puma, the “Curse” had nothing to do with the Yankees and everything to do with the Sox. If you’re a curse adherent/crypto-anti-Semite, then the Sox must beat the Yanks so that, again, in Game 7, they can collapse utterly, another ring missing.

If you listen to the “Impossible Dream” from 1967, there’s such a sense of elation among the description, even though the Sox lost the Series. It’s funny to hear no gloom, no doom, no talk of curses, nothing. It’s the World Series that “no one won,” since both teams were great—the Sox came back from a terrible season to win the pennant, and the Cards were good, too. That’s part of why I can’t hate on the Cards; they beat us in a WS that had a winner only since these things, contractually, must.

By: summer

summer — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

despite my hesistation in actually rooting for the red sox in any way, shape, or form, i shall put my political conscience aside, and cheer for them, just because i like you. (the world will probably end if they win.)

By: the OC

the OC — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Guy I talked to for a column last week said the following: “The Red Sox will always bring you back to where you believe in them only to crush you again.”

By: I Am the Boy That can enjoy Invisibility

I Am the Boy That can enjoy Invisibility — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

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