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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
You had to be watching last year. It was Disney's little gift to professional baseball.
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now that I've had a little time to investigate (and frankly the existing fb explanations left a little to be desired), I understand the rally monkey is something from 2000 in Anaheim and has now been completely commercialized for profit by such sites as rallymonkey.com. I also learned a little thing or two about the Cowboy Up phrase, best summarized by an excerpt of a boston.com article:
"Millar, a key offseason acquisition by a franchise historically lacking in true grit, hails from Beaumont, Texas. Timlin was born in Midland. Texas is rodeo country. In rodeo, to "cowboy up" means to suck it up in times of adversity. No boo-hooing. No namby-pamby fatalism. As one T-shirt slogan puts it, "Are You Gonna Cowboy Up or Just Lay There and Bleed?" John Wayne never said it better. (Although Bruce Willis snarled something similar in the war epic "Tears of the Sun.")
Millar trotted out the phrase last month when cynics (i.e. saddle-sore knights of the keyboard) questioned the team's toughness. "I want to see somebody cowboy up and stand behind this team and quit worrying about all the negative stuff," Millar growled after a loss to the Oakland A's."
So I assume Red Sox fans are at this moment Cowboying Up. Thank god. I hate namby-pamby crybabies.
(it is amazingly satisfying to taunt losers when you have no team that you like)
