From: Kirby Driver Reborn | #192 As far as the 15 years thing goes, people my age were 15 years old in 1996. That's old enough to have been watching the Yankees when they were struggling before Jeter/Rivera/Pettitte broke out. My brother is a Yankee fan that was rooting just as hard for Paul O'Neill, Don Mattingly, and scrubs like Alvaro Espinoza and Mike Pagliarulo as he does for the team now. So you'll excuse me if I laugh at Yankee "fans" who have no idea who Stump Merrill, Dallas Green, and Buck Showalter are.
I have documented Daily News evidence of being at a game in 1994, when the Yankees best player was Danny Tartabull and our shortstop was Mike Gallego. I'm legit.
And Dallas Green is one of just four guys to manage both the Yankees and the Mets! (Yogi Berra, Casey Stengel, Joe Torre)
Oh man I just started remembering all those terrible Yankees teams. In addition to Tartabull and Gallego:
Mike Stanley Dion James Kevin Maas (was literally supposed to be the best hitter of all time) Pat Kelly Luis Polonia Randy Velarde Matt Nokes Spike Owen
God those teams sucked. Gerald Williams was ****ing awesome though.
It's hard for my fanship to associate with the cities because my fanship of the individual team became long before I had been to Detroit and long before I understood how much of a hole is. Hell, if I was only a Piston fan, I'd never even have to set foot in Detroit!
And since my earliest memories of this world are actually watching the 89 NBA Finals with my father, that's pretty well ingrained. So I weight them:
Pros: The Players I love The Coaches I love The History I love
Cons: The City I hate
Another thing, and this is more of a personal reason, but I'm a country boy, so to speak. I've lived in rural areas all my life, I love camping, biking, fishing and other outdoor activities. I just don't have any connection to any city, really. I visited New York, it was nice but I don't feel anything for it. Been to other major cities, like Seattle, Orlando, Toronto, Memphis, etc. I don't really feel a connection to them. Or any city, really. I don't see how this should affect my fanhood.
-- TheRock ~ Death By Misadventure, Not Suicide "Would've liked to see that." - Ayuyu on my boner
See, now this is a problem. Cardinals win Game 2 on crazy BABIP luck, and win Game 4 because that's the weak spot in our rotation. Meanwhile the Phillies have completely forgotten how to hit a baseball, even when it's being thrown by the Cardinals bullpen.
Roy Halladay is back up next, and the Cardinals are going with Chris Carpenter in his first start after going short rest, which looks great on paper, but no matter how good Halladay is or how bad Carpenter is, the Phillies have to actually get on base. Ryan Howard has become a black hole where plate appearances disappear into, never to be seen again, and Placido Polanco is somehow worse.
I'm reminded again of the saying "It's the Philies. If it was easy, they wouldn't be the Phillies."
-- [NO BARKLEY NO PEACE] Ace Detective in Sir Charles's Police http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkOj5DAJu2A
I'm sure scary doug fister is gonna have another repeat stellar- oh wait, he loaded the bases before being forced out in 6 innings. That's twice we've done that to him. Saw him twice, beat him twice, bank on #3 tomorrow.
I hope the Red Birds enjoyed the hit parade tonight. I have a feeling they won't be getting many on Friday.
GEE IT SURE IS A GOOD THING THIS SERIES WILL BE OVER ON FRIDAY INSTEAD OF POTENTIALLY HEADING TO AN EPIC SEVEN GAME SERIES RIGHT GUYS WE WOULDN'T WANT THAT
-- "I can't do this all on my own... no I know, I'm no Superman."
ExThaNemesis posted... I hope the Red Birds enjoyed the hit parade tonight. I have a feeling they won't be getting many on Friday.
GEE IT SURE IS A GOOD THING THIS SERIES WILL BE OVER ON FRIDAY INSTEAD OF POTENTIALLY HEADING TO AN EPIC SEVEN GAME SERIES RIGHT GUYS WE WOULDN'T WANT THAT
To be fair, this particular series's best chance at being epic was to make it a 5-game series.
I highly doubt St. Louis could have won three games to push it to 7, but just needing two wins to push it to a deciding game 5 with all the pressure on Halladay to not blow such a dominant season was within the Cardinals' capabilities.
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From: Mershaaay | Posted: 10/6/2011 9:55:03 AM | #228 Swiftlicious posted... so 3 game 5s and only one of them tonight
i hate that the yanks always have to be on prime time.
terrible fan alert you sound like extha terrible fan
when your father has to work at 12 am to 2 pm the next day, sometimes you wish you'd get a nice lucky ALDS afternoon game so you could watch the whole thing together and not just the ending when the poor guy wakes up lol
plus, the Yanks have amazing afternoon numbers. You'd know if you were a real fan :)
Anyway that'd be cool for you and your dad but afternoon games would kill me as far as being able to watch. Well, at least this semester anyway. I think I'd be skipping class to watch today though.
-- "I can't do this all on my own... no I know, I'm no Superman."
From: Swiftlicious | #233 ^5 maybe that dedication will inspire sanchez to have a passer rating near Eli manning
you'd need the dedication to become a genetic engineer so you could splice sanchez's genes with a talented quarterback in order for that to happen ROLF
-- "I can't do this all on my own... no I know, I'm no Superman."