rinkrat wrote:I'd root for a team featuring Satan, Hitler, .

Jeebus! Satan and Hitler!!!?

Hey! The Yanks are decent and upstanding humans! All of them. To say you'd root for Satan or Hitler is to undermine the worth of all humans, and say you'd elevate absolute evil over a fine baseball team.

Buddy, you need to take your largatyl.

Another thing: have a hankee ready tonight after the Yanks blow out those pud whacker Phils.

Especially that putz, Buttley.

I'm pretty sure I signed something in blood that says I'll lose my soul if I root for the Yankees.

I'd root for a team featuring Satan, Hitler, Dick Cheney and the "Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy before I root for the Yankees, Oregon Ducks, Carolina Hurricanes or Everett Silvertips.

Even if a Phillies World Series title plunges us into a hundred years of economic turmoil, I'm still going to root for them. When society crumbles and we're living in ruins, Philadelphians will get into their Mad Max style cars and conduct a reign of terror all over this land in a never ending Phillies Parade of Victory and Death. Personally, I'll decorate my car with the skulls of Mets and Giants fans and wear a necklace made from their tongues.

I also wonder about that.

And, for other reasons altogether, I feel total disgust every time they show this joker.

Hmmm.. Interesting thought. I'll rely on other sources to boost the economy rather than the yankees. It is also a rule in most of the country to hate the yankees, especially in that much beloved region where yankee is still a derogatory term used to describe folks from the "NOATH". As much as I admire their quality players, I'd rather suffer a second great depression than see that organization and the city of NY get another WS trophy.

ergo propter hoc.

P.S. Go Phillies!

Spends about $375 million a year on sports medicine research.

I have no problem with this at all, not that I am 100% of the causation angle. I just hate the Phillies. The Yanks meanwhile are the cream of the baseball crop. They deserve to win, given their $208 million paid for elite players, and hence they ought to win. Case closed.

The only thing is I believe it would be a huge error to pitch Pettite tonight on 3 days rest. I would pitch Gaudin instead and start Pettite for a likely Game 7. I would do that instead of going to the Sabathia well again, since the Phils know how to run up his pitch count. Thus, by the 6th his tank will be empty anyhoo.

Go Yanks! Follow my advice here and you will have that damned Phille Fanatic for lunch.

...than the Yankees win another World Series.

OK, that may be a slight exaggeration. But it should give you an idea of how much I hate that team.

Boooooooooooooo!

Booooooooooooooooo!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

But pretty much everyone outside NYC and the Caribbean hates the Yankees. It has nothing to do with San Francisco. That's probably one of the few things an overwhelming majority of Americans could agree on. All those Yankees hats you see kids wearing? Yeah, they're not actually fans. They just wanted the hat.

Maybe if the Philly fans weren't such dicks, he would throw them a ball. I can't even imagine the abuse being thrown his way. Why in hell would he give them any love?

I'm sure they'll end up winning, but anything that drags New York deeper into the morass, it just fine with me.

(Of course, a NY title is better than a Boston title, but that's like deciding that it's better to die with a hot poker through the heart than having your skin slowly ripped off...)

In each of the games in Philly, Melky Cabrera caught a fly ball to end an inning then faked throwing the ball to the fans in the crowd. What a dick move. Granted that Melky is not exactly the face of the Yankees but he is the playing the historically glamorous position of centerfield.

Plus A-rod is a coward. Just come out already.

Give yourself over, to absolute pleasure,

Swim the warm waters of, sins of the flesh...

Right now they are the only decent thing in New York (the Jets are in New Jersey) and we could use some cheering up before our state joins California in fiscal hell.

. . . . especially after Damon's awesome 9th inning last night. That was some hard-nosed, heads-up baseball right there!

To hate the Yankees. Sorry.