Baseball fans--ALCS
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DOHC Holliday said:
oh man, that's against my team too.
but i do love how these yankees fans come out of the woodwork every october...you know, these "lifelong NY fans". they all have the same bullshit story too: "..oh no, I've been a NY fan since I was a kid", or "my grandfather grew up in the Bronx so that's the team I've always followed", another favorite is "the Yankees were my first League Team", or, "I watched a game with Reggie Jackson and Catfish Hunter and I've been hooked ever since". every one of these front runners has some ridiculous excuse why they seem to follow a team other than the one where they grew up or currently live.
sure.
easy to like a winner, try following mediocrity for 35+ years, then talk to me.
Actually, I'm not a life-long Yanks fan. My husband is ...but I was always a Red Sox fan. There is even a pic around here somewhere of me at Fenway (I think in 1999/2000) with a "Reverse the Curse" sign.
I still love the Red Sox, but if the game is on in our house, it's usually the Yankees and I've had fun watching A-Rod pull out the homeruns when they are needed.
We live and breathe baseball most of the year (coaching High school and American Legion ball) so pro playoffs time is always fun. We actually prefer College ball and the road to Omaha to any of the leagues.
I do agree that it's easy to always back the winners. My husband has always liked the Yanks because they are more traditional and clean cut though--he can't stand the long hair, beards and necklaces on the other ballplayers! haha
I still love the Red Sox, but if the game is on in our house, it's usually the Yankees and I've had fun watching A-Rod pull out the homeruns when they are needed.
We live and breathe baseball most of the year (coaching High school and American Legion ball) so pro playoffs time is always fun. We actually prefer College ball and the road to Omaha to any of the leagues.
I do agree that it's easy to always back the winners. My husband has always liked the Yanks because they are more traditional and clean cut though--he can't stand the long hair, beards and necklaces on the other ballplayers! haha
PS My annual work conference was in Boston in 2008--I bought my husband a "Green Monstah" T-shirt and have been surprised that he actually wears it!
Padres fan here. Been pulling for the Angles. *sigh*
Thing about the Yankees is, other than me holding a grudge from '98, they just don't play a very interesting brand of baseball. They've got a few EXCEPTIONAL, and I mean ABSOLUTELY EXCEPTIONAL players and pitchers, and the rest of the team is just guys then can count on to not totaly fuck things up. It's not really a team. It's A-Rod and Jeeter and Pettite, and the other dudes who just hang around and catch the ball when it comes to them. If they happen to get on base, then A-Rod or Jeter will get a RBI. Lame, and redokulously expensive.
San Diego between '05 and '07 was my kinda ball. TEAMwork. Small ball. Hustlin' for runs, EVERYBODY has to be good. Angels were this way, a bit, this year, and the Dodgers too.
I'm hopin' for a NY, LA series - THAT shit would be epic.
Thing about the Yankees is, other than me holding a grudge from '98, they just don't play a very interesting brand of baseball. They've got a few EXCEPTIONAL, and I mean ABSOLUTELY EXCEPTIONAL players and pitchers, and the rest of the team is just guys then can count on to not totaly fuck things up. It's not really a team. It's A-Rod and Jeeter and Pettite, and the other dudes who just hang around and catch the ball when it comes to them. If they happen to get on base, then A-Rod or Jeter will get a RBI. Lame, and redokulously expensive.
San Diego between '05 and '07 was my kinda ball. TEAMwork. Small ball. Hustlin' for runs, EVERYBODY has to be good. Angels were this way, a bit, this year, and the Dodgers too.
I'm hopin' for a NY, LA series - THAT shit would be epic.
knewsom said:
Of the choices in the playoffs, I think NY vs LA would have been a great combo too. My husband was actually rooting for LA b/c of Joe Torre!
Roverlady said:
Unfuckingbelievable.
We've all come to accept that Susannah doesn't know shit about Land Rovers and fourwheeling, but now she's outed her self again.
You're a Red Sox fan but you root for the Yankees.
Read that statement a few times and try to do it without shaking your head.
You can't. It's not possible.
Susannah is no Red Sox fan. Any support of the Yankees is proof-positive of the contrary. She knows it too. That's why she lamely offers up some ghostly non-existent evidence of a photo somewhere long long ago in the before time as her credentials.
Then she decides to further embarrass herself buy saying that her baseball love is so deep that it goes beyond teams and players because she "live(s) and breathe(s) baseball most of the year".
So you don't give a shit about teams or do you? Because you started a whole thread about a specific team trying to ride their glory. That's pretty much the opposite of only being into college baseball.
And she loves A-Rod.
Of course.
No one who loves baseball can love A-Rod. A real Yankees fan can love A-Rod because they love winning at any cost. Any salary, any move, any strategy. Whatever it takes. That's Yankee baseball. A-Rod is the real Yankee poster boy, not Jeter.
A-Rod represents everything that's worst about baseball players. He's driven by salary and ego. He used steroids and he cheats. I mean the motherfucker swats balls out of gloves and yells "I got it" while he's running the bases. He is the ultimate low life.
NOBODY who loves this game could ever love him.
The Yankees are "clean cut".
I love that shit. It's right up there with "the Yankees are a classy ball club."
When these guys go to work they wear a uniform. Just like every other baseball player. Just because they forgo any expression or personal style on the field doesn't somehow make them sophisticates. Have you seen what these morons look like off the field?
A-Rod
Jeter
Swisher
Cabrera and Cano
Joba
Sabathia
These guys are tools. Shaving aint gonna make the difference.
Hideki Matsui and Mariano Rivera are the exceptions.
Haha Jack, so I'm guessing your team is ANYONE BUT the Yankees.
Yes, we live and breathe baseball that is NOT Professional. I go to all the games. My husband coaches.
And yes, I've always been a Red Sox fan but I'll root for other teams when they are in the playoffs. So, I flip and flop. I'll find that Fenway pic tonight and scan it. And search back to when the Red Sox were in the WS a few years ago--I was here talking about how proud I was of the team.
I never said I love A-Rod either. I said I've enjoyed watching him do his job. Read my post again.
Yes, we live and breathe baseball that is NOT Professional. I go to all the games. My husband coaches.
And yes, I've always been a Red Sox fan but I'll root for other teams when they are in the playoffs. So, I flip and flop. I'll find that Fenway pic tonight and scan it. And search back to when the Red Sox were in the WS a few years ago--I was here talking about how proud I was of the team.
I never said I love A-Rod either. I said I've enjoyed watching him do his job. Read my post again.
DiscoWeb never forgets, right?
http://www.discoweb.org/forums/showpost.php?p=459101&postcount=25
But I'm being a traitor now by starting a thread about A-Rod and the Yanks. Sorry to upset you so much Jack!
http://www.discoweb.org/forums/showpost.php?p=459101&postcount=25
But I'm being a traitor now by starting a thread about A-Rod and the Yanks. Sorry to upset you so much Jack!
Roverlady said:
I guess Susannah is just trying to link her contradictions before I do.
It's an interesting approach, but the end result is the same.
jack said:
And Jack, you're right, I don't know anything about Land Rovers.
That's why I'm still here, after 7 years, learning about fans and viscous units and figuring out the big differences between our old 3.9s and the 'new' 4.0.
Oh, and cheering on a little baseball.
You know how apparel manufacturers make up t-shirts and hats in anticipation of victories?
Like: "LA DODGERS 2009 NLCS CHAMPIONS!!!"
And these shirts are laid out in the locker rooms with the champagne and everything during the tie-breaking series-ending game and then when the team loses the staff has to scramble to get that shit out of the locker room before the dejected players shuffle in?
I'm guessing that's what Susannah's closet is like.
She's got a jersey for every contender team and right at the end of the game she runs to put on the winner's gear.
Like: "LA DODGERS 2009 NLCS CHAMPIONS!!!"
And these shirts are laid out in the locker rooms with the champagne and everything during the tie-breaking series-ending game and then when the team loses the staff has to scramble to get that shit out of the locker room before the dejected players shuffle in?
I'm guessing that's what Susannah's closet is like.
She's got a jersey for every contender team and right at the end of the game she runs to put on the winner's gear.