Yet another reason the Yankees SUCK

I'm thinking that a great sequel/Americanized-remake would be the same general setup, but this time the island is off the coast of Maine and they have to pretend that they are Yankees fans to try and lure the doctor.

I should start working on the screenplay...

Red Sox have been owned by the Yankees for a century. Didn't the Sux get swept by the D'Rays? Its too early to brag about baseball anyway.

OMG, that last post was so perfect that it has me saying "OMG" like a texting 13 year old girl! I just logged in to post this link to "The 10 types of Yankee fans" and there was that post from a mild version of #2 (bully Yankee fan). Awesome!

http://cbs.sportsline.com/spin/story/10819500

Best line in the article IMO: including A-Rod (Miami) in the list of players from his homeland that #5 (Latino Yankee fan) roots for. I lived in Miami, and it is so true. It is one of the few places in the US where a white man is in the significant minority. Frankly, it is a great learning experience, and it's a shame that more people don't try it to see what life is like on the other side...

Which leads me to my sociopolitical-comment-nobody-asked-for of the day:

Wouldn't the world be a much better place if we made it a universal rule and that anyone running for public office had to have lived at least 1 year as a minority somewhere (preferably with a language barrier)?? Think about it. In a world where increasingly political office can only be attained by millionaires and billionaires who can afford expensive campaigns, we are increasingly represented by individuals who have never experienced not getting what they want immediately, and can't understand why all the 'little people' keep complaining.

A mild form of this is the rule many colleges and universities have requiring incoming freshman to live on campus with a roommate, which forces them to learn to get along with someone often very different from themselves. This is fantastic.

I just wish more aspiring politicians were required to think and learn first, that a prerequisite to running for office was actual experience learning about the culture and concerns of someone different. Going from prep school to Ivy League college where they may (at the absolute worst) have to share a suite with another rich white person is not the best preparation to serve in an office that is supposed to represent the interests of ALL their constituents.

End of sociopolitical-comment-nobody-asked-for. We now return you to the status quo.

Josex wrote:

Said the depressed Yankees fan whose team is struggling to stay at .500 while the RS are a half-game off the league's best record after an abbreviated Spring Training, a horrible trip to Japan, and the subsequent flu virus that took 2 weeks to make it's way through the team and **** an unheard of 4 consecutive missed starts by starting pitchers!

When the Yankees were good (I'm having trouble remembering that far back ) I don't remember Yankee fan having any reservations about early bragging...

If it's any consolation, I freely admit that the only division opponent I check for in the standings is the Yanks - I mean, who gives a rat's ass if Baltimore or Tampa or Toronto won or lost? We all know that either the Sox or the Yanks are going to win the division every year. So take heart little .500 team - deep down we still fear you as the only worthy opposition.

*****

EDIT: Adding this link to the "Most inappropriately named sports teams" because I love their new name for the NY Rangers:

http://www.maxim.com/Themostinappropriatelynamedsportsteams/articles/24346.aspx

For the record, I also like their Bruins rename.

ECHO...Echo...echo...

So what if it is just me in here. I'm going to forge ahead.

In the interest of fairness, here is today's follow-up describing the various types of Red Sox fans:

http://cbs.sportsline.com/spin/story/10829129

I am a blend of Actual Red Sox Fan, Obsessive Red Sox Fan (you don't say?), and Displaced Red Sox Fan myself.

And an anti-RedSox-fan article referenced in the above story:

http://www.maxim.com/Whythesportsworldhatesboston/articles/19555.aspx

My favorite part:

"It’s bad enough that the Red Sox are going into opening day as defending World Series champions (again!) and that the Pats have appeared in four of the past seven Super Bowls (and won three of them). But now, not only do the Garnett, Ray Allen, Paul Pierce Celtics appear primed for a deep playoff push after years of ineptitude, but Boston College’s football team spent much of the past season undefeated and ranked No. 2 in the nation. Hell, even the Bruins don’t completely suck."

They forgot to mention that BC just won the NCAA Hockey Championship too. But that's how it is in Beantown - so many good teams that a National Championship is easily forgotten.

o my god o my god o my god!!!!

You can't make this stuff up.

I'm pissing myself this is so awesome!

The Yankees have admitted to wearing (sharing?) GOLD PANTIES!!!

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2008/05/16/2008-05-16_jason_giambi_and_his_magic_gold_thong.html

Someone go get bigpaulie, please!

This is officially my favorite post ever. Anywhere.

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OK Red Fag fan, I read that in the Post and I was HORRIFIED!!!!
(I am burning my Giambi jersey as I type!!)

On the brighter side, maybe Ted Kennedy will finally kick the bucket, and Republicans will prevail!!!

bigpaulie426 wrote:

You know, when that was on the news I actually wondered to myself - who will be the first person I come across who will be cheering because someone who has k1ds and grand**** is seriously ill and could die, just because of where this person comes from and because of the causes he fights for (horrible things like gender equity and protection of the poor from the powerful - horrible, despicable causes that the likes of Jesus and Gandhi would have been dead set against, no doubt).

And in my Top 5, I had: Rush Limbaugh, that moron on Headline News every night, Tucker Carlson, the Yankee fan who killed a guy with her car, and bigpaulie...not necessarily in that order. I would ask whether you had an ounce of compassion in you, but your political affiliation makes that question moot. Hell, even Pat Buchanan only had nice things to say under the circumstances.

Too loosely paraphrase Rodney King...can't we put aside such immaterial things as politics and sports when it comes to matters of life and death? I mean, really. There are things that matter, and things that really don't. Look at it this way - if (when?) aliens come calling and they turn out to be hostile, we will VERY quickly forget silly distinctions like politics and sports teams and act as a unified species (uh, the junta in Myanmar perhaps being the exception to this). Do we need to wait until something that ridiculous happens before we can consciously set aside our m1nor differences at times when those differences are minimal next to our similarities (such as times of life and death)??

I'm just sayin'...

[That being said, I did recently take brief pleasure in one particular person's hands becoming cold and dead, so I admit I suffer from occasional losses of perspective myself.]

An ounce of compassion?!?!? Not even a microgram my friend!! Ted Kennedy is a worthless lush who has been living on his Kennedy name alone!!!

As for Myanmar.....FUCK THEM!!!! We need to stop helping everybody and keep our money at home, in AMERICA!!!!


I just paid $3.60 a gallon for gas, I could care less about Myanmar, or China or any other God forsaken place for that matter!!!

Those friggin countries we keep sending aid to wouldn't piss on us if we were on fire!!!

As for my Political views......ONCE A MARINE, ALWAYS A MARINE!!!!

OOOOOOOOOORAAAAAAAAAA

I, on the other hand, am a compassionate person. And right now with the Spankees losing 11-2 to the pathetic Mets and soon to drop to 4 under .500, I feel sorry for Yankees fans and will forgive you bigpaulie.

For today.

And don't cry to hard, girls (that would be Yankees fans in case you missed that one) - I heard that Jeter and the rest of the Yankees are stopping by Victoria's Secret after the game to try on some new "slump busters."

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Translation: HOMO

A Spankme fan says what?

Watch your BP there, dude. Maybe try some gold thong panties to relax. The Yankees swear by them.

(In the words of Cousin Eddie: "It's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year long.")

Yet another reason the Yankees suck?

They kept their young pitchers instead of trading for Santana. The Red Sox made the same choice, of course...but the two pitchers they kept have now have BOTH THROWN NO HITTERS!!! While Hughes looks delicate, Kennedy looks like a middle-reliever, and was there a 3rd guy too??

"HA ha" - Nelson Muntz