Comments on: Celebration

By: somegosoftly

somegosoftly — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:19:13 +0000

cheesy mustached. I love it. Your my new fave, sox fan!

By: soxfan17881

soxfan17881 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:31:13 +0000

What I love about Yankee fans is there willingness to change their mind. usually you hear “26 World Series Rings”. Now, when someone points out that the Yankees are not quite what they were, the Yankee fan switches to “7 pennants in 10 years”.

What I hate about Yankee fans is that they tend to be smug, monosyllabic, cheesy mustached, profane, and willing to ignore the harm their franchise and its egomaniacal owner have done to baseball.

By: Mr President

Mr President — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:28:44 +0000

BunGirl’s spot on actually. I wonder if, given that, A-Rod choosing not to renew his contract may turn out to be a blessing in disguise.

Especially if he goes to the Mets and creates the same problems in their locker room…

I still say signing him was the start of the decline for the Yankees and like Craig said I suspect it’s because he personifies what’s wrong with the current team.

Between the Yankees and Eagles I’m in for some serious pain in the coming years…

By: BunGirl

BunGirl — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:42:49 +0000

I’m no baseball fanatic, though my husband is. I’m also nowhere near being an expert on the game or any of the teams. It seems to me though, that the Yankees current problems stem from an all-star team mentality. They’ve used their money (gained from their star-studded past) to pick up the best of the best players. While that seems a good strategy on the surface, one has to look a bit deeper at the big picture to put together a cohesive team. To paraphrase the movie miracle (different sport, same principle) it’s not about having the best players, but the right ones.

By: Craig

Craig — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 04:58:31 +0000

It’s like a big, dysfunctional family.

By: sybotee

sybotee — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:18:24 +0000

this seems to be the most popular posting ever! gotta love the yank/sox rivalry for sure. i think it stems from the fact that most people for some reason hate both NY’ers AND Bostonians. so the 2 cities bond by hating each others baseball teams. makes sense to me.

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:59:43 +0000

They’d have to get Omar Minaya out of town first…

By: Mr President

Mr President — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:38:36 +0000

Couldn’t agree more. The Red Sox could well go on to forge an empire of their own, and even dominance of New York may come and go as the Mets look better each season.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 23:17:04 +0000

Yeah, that’s the thing, and exactly how A-Rod is so much like the Yankees as a whole–great regular season, poor postseason. Daisuke Matsuzaka had more RBIs in four at-bats than A-Rod did this postseason.

The problem is, they’re dominant, but only when you use qualifiers like “regular season” and “appearances.” Don’t get me wrong, they’re a very good team and way above most other teams. But they’re now just a shadow of the empire that once stood in the Bronx.

By: Mr President

Mr President — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:12:55 +0000

History means nothing, and right now the Sox are playing better baseball. That’s a fact.

To be fair even if we take the decade to be “since 2000″ the Yankees have made postseason every season. They’ve dominated the regular season, our problems have been postseason.

For all the big salaries they choke. And so long as they continue to do so success will be something relegated to Yankees history.

I echo your sentiments. May the best team win.