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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Where do you get this stuff? Give me a link, please.
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About Roger retiring? Uh, he sort of said that during the World Series, didn't he? I guess he could unretire. That's why I said they lost him "probably." As to Pettite, I thought that it was general knowledge that he was headed for Houston, though again, he hasn't signed yet, so I also said "probably" as to him.
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
And who exactly do you root for -- or are you one of those everyone-playing-the-Yankees fans? Every baseball post you write is sour grapes on the Yanks. It's almost like you're a Boston fan with your level of obsession.
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Growing up, I was a Mets and Red Sox fan. I still am, though I now root for the hometown Podunkville Plungers (the local Class C team -- great logo of a plumber racing towards a leaky commode, btw) more than anyone else.
Yes, I hated the Yankees as a lad. Why? Because I like underdogs, and you can't get much more underdog than the Mets. Plus all the Yankee fans (with one or two exceptions) were the typical "I like the team that wins" sort of fans -- the kind of people who loved the Cowboys and the Steelers in the 1970s, and who didn't live in Dallas or Pittsburgh. (I should note that I was a Giants fan, too -- go Joe Pisarcik!)
Anyway, I like Joe Torre. I like the way the Yankees have never had goofy uniforms, and how they honor their traditions. I like Yogi Berra. I like Mickey Mantle, and Whitey Ford, and I loved "61*" and Joe Dimaggio and Mr. Coffee, and all that. I just like to see them stumble a bit every so often. Being a Yankee fan when they are up is like rooting for the Empire in Star Wars, or Santa Anna in "The Alamo" (the version with John Wayne as Davy Crockett, natch). Were you rooting for them between 1981 and 1995?
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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
As for Matsui, we didn't lose him because we weren't really that interested in him in the first place. So, the Mets signing him doesn't really mean much.
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Keep telling yourself that, spanky. And it didn't hurt to lose the Series to the Fish the way you did because y'all beat the Sox, right? Please. Would we celebrate the Miracle on Ice if the Finns (or Swedes or whoever) beat us after we crushed those Commie bastards at Lake Placid? I think not.
