tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post2199003533015353693..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: I Don't Think I Hate The Yankees AnymoreAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-88986701535022119282007-05-13T19:39:00.000-04:002007-05-13T19:39:00.000-04:00Full disclosure: I'm a Boston Red Sox fan... so m...Full disclosure: I'm a Boston Red Sox fan... so my question is this: What are "The Yankees?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-36570519023305716952007-05-11T22:14:00.000-04:002007-05-11T22:14:00.000-04:00I took the quiz. There was a wrong answer in it, ...I took the quiz. There was a wrong answer in it, but since I was not a registered user, it wouldn't let me complain.<BR/><BR/>I was also at the game, sitting about 15 rows back of home plate. I thought sure Yaz was going to get it done in the bottom of the ninth.<BR/><BR/>One thing I have always thought didn't get enough attention was that the home field advantage sunk the Sox. Jackson and Dent hit home runs. Neither would have been a homer in Yankee stadium. Fred Lynn hit a ball to the corner in right field that Pinella caught. It would have been a homer in Yankee stadium. Yaz homer would have been a homer either place. <BR/><BR/>There is no liking the Yankees. What, are we going to feel sorry for them because they haven't won a world championship in the 21st century. Please!!!!!! 26 world championships? That's one every 4 years! They should have won only 1 every 20 years! Let them have a drought of, oh, 50 years, and then I might feel bad for them. No, make that 86 years.<BR/><BR/>As for the 1978 playoff being the last of the "old baseball", let us remember that Goose Gossage was pitching for the pinstripes because Steinbrenner had signed him as a free agent in the offseason. They already had Sparky Lyle, for crying out loud. Too bad the Red Sox didn't have a reliever like Lyle . . . never mind.<BR/><BR/>Bucky Dent . . . Aaron Boone . . . no, I can't give it up. I am a Yankee hater for life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-2633316095591129672007-05-11T17:08:00.000-04:002007-05-11T17:08:00.000-04:00I agree, even though I wasn't there. Free agency ...I agree, even though I wasn't there. Free agency changed a lot, but more recently ESPN and the internet made rooting for a non-local team a real possibility. Once you're faced with hating not a fan base but actual individual fans, it's harder to humanely do so. <BR/><BR/>I think in recent years as the game has gone more national, more people lump us in with the Yankees as one of those extreme-spending teams, which makes us defensive. We don't like getting called Yankees, but it makes us angry at fans who aren't Yankees, too. <BR/><BR/>It's also harder to hate these Yankees teams, full of clean-cut guys whose only real flaw is that they went to the team that offered the biggest contract. I'm glad Clemens is back so that there's a player on that team who legitimately deserves our scorn. I was even starting to feel a little sorry for A-Rod.Ben Wymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12491745981357751416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-81680567115538202192007-05-10T16:28:00.000-04:002007-05-10T16:28:00.000-04:00Lou G.D. Pinella?The worst part was that he succes...Lou G.D. Pinella?<BR/><BR/>The worst part was that he successfully deked the baserunner into thinking he was catching it on the fly, so he hung back to tag up. An easy run otherwise.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-89530358888174173732007-05-10T12:16:00.000-04:002007-05-10T12:16:00.000-04:00Ah, the quiz wasn't all that, don't bother.Ah, the quiz wasn't all that, don't bother.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-75498657789456294032007-05-10T11:48:00.000-04:002007-05-10T11:48:00.000-04:00His official middle initial is "F", as in Bucky F....His official middle initial is "F", as in Bucky F. Dent.<BR/><BR/>BTW, I was at that game, sitting along the first base line in the grandstands, roughly as far back as the roof support pillars. I still have no idea how Fred Lynn's shot in the eighth failed to get past Lou Piniella. He never saw the thing.<BR/><BR/>And no, I don't hate the Yankees nearly as much as I used to. They have much more likeable players now, as compared to reprobates like Mickey Rivers, Reggie Jackson and Goose Gossage. There is still the Steinbrenner factor, though.<BR/><BR/>You may want to check out <A HREF="http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz91206a735d8.html" REL="nofollow">this quiz</A> on the game.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com