Chad, Shame you aren't famous enough for there to be something written about you that I could openly mock. As all Red Flops fans are - you are displaying that wonderful sense of loss that can only be someone elses fault.
The mirror is ugliest in Beantown.
Cheers!
A-Rod is a .280 hitter in the postseason, Manny is at .257. Mike Lowell is at .196 Don't worry though, JD Drew brings it at a whopping .233 clip.
It amazes me that you can insult intelligence of the fans of the MOST WINNINGEST franchise in sports when you guys have been spelling socks wrong for over 100 years. Sorry I won't be at the next Championship parade in Boston in 2090. That's 86 years from your last one for you morons.
Um, Yankee fans, I would love to see the NFL give the Patriots an extra eighty million a year and see where they end up. That the Yankees haven't won it all in seven years is astonishing really. It makes all of our juices flow, especially when they will disappointment once again this October.
Chad, in terms of Ms. Waldman, she actually used to a BLOWHARD who regularly took the annual Fenway trip from NYC with "the boys" and actively supported the team. Like a few shallow people at the time, she gave up on the Red Sox (her words) thanks to Johnny Mac's managerial blunders in the fall of 1986. Two years later, she surfaces as a Yankee flag-waver after following the fortunes of the Red Sox for thirty years. What depth of character. Recently, she stated to Ed Coleman on the air, "I've lived in New York for twenty-five years. Boston was a lifetime ago." I've lived in the NYC area for two decades, and yet, I would root for the North Korieans before I would root for the Yankees. That argument doesn't wash here.
By the way, Ol' Suzyn supposedly once had an account on SoSH where I called her a Capo after she tried to post. She hasn't surfaced since.
All the best.
the sox are done, will only be the wild card becuse of few remaining games. team has no 'fire'. manny decided to only take september off this year and won't play again in regular season. team will be swept in
playoffs. message: FIRE FRAN'COMA'
and EPSTEIN!!! do they really look like a team with a 170 million payroll?
bill, fl sox fan of 50+ years
Oh please! Ancient history and name calling. Is that all you got?
The only way Terry Francona is going to get into the World Series is if he buys a ticket.
Wow, what a bunch of comments NOT about the blog post. Can't you delete the NY yahoos?
1. Reports show that Georgie has now lost his marbles. I hate myself for feeling sorry for him.
2. 3. I'm neutral on Jeter. He's got some class. He looks like a saint next to A-Rod. Always respected Bernie Williams.
4. Clemens is steroids without the stupidity (don't get caught), addicted to his own "legend." Six years out of the game (whenever that is), he may be a suicide.
7. How funny is it that Cashman manages like he's Theo's wanna-be kid brother?
10. You forgot "gerbil."
13. What about "Daaaaay-O?" What the hell is that?
16. BOTH our center fielders are better than Damon now. Feels good.
23. 24. Bucky and Boone, meet Bellhorn, 2004. Right back at ya.
bill: I feel your pain, but let's blame the people handling the baseball. Tek, figure out how to hit again; you're looking like Dougie. Papi, shove Manny out onto the field. Drew, demand to sit while Ellsbury plays right field. Daisuke, slow down the game.
It was the 1996 World Series, not 1995. You are disqualified from talking about the Yankees.
Funny... you can pretty much make the same exact type of list for the Patriots.
(by the way, I'm not a NYY fan. But I do hate the *Pats)
Just an observation: New York is where Red Sox players would rather play (except Yuck, who'd probably be against peeling that beard off). Roger, Wade, Johnny, Zim. Heck, even Pedro made it as far as Queens. They all come eventually. In all fairness, the Boston to N.Y. route isn't one-way, although Bernie wouldn't go. You did welcome Mike Stanley, David Wells and an aged Elston Howard. Oh yeah, and Mike Torez. How'd that work out?
...and another thing about Jeter... I can't stand to watch him bat. He can get a pitch letter-high and he'll crouch low like he's watching the ball pass outside and low. Come on!!! You're not gonna fool the ump like that... (ok that could be a whole other argument). Between that and his constant smug expression, he's unwatchable, regardless of his stats.
26 reasons I hate Chad Finn: You're an A**Hole 26 times.
Chad...can't one of you Boston blowhards come up with something original? Same old crap year after year. I am guessing you find it just fine that 10 year old inhabitants of the nation chant "Tankees suck" and they wear shirts that say Jeter blows. Journalist??? That's like calling Manny a gamer!
Awful list from a bitter man, but you are dead on about the announcers. Sterling, Kay, Suzyn must go! On the flip to that they have the best in the business, Joe Girardi... Ken Singleton is great too, Jim Kaat is missed, Leiter is pretty good, Paul O'Neil is good color commentary guy in the limited fashion he is used, Flash, is ok as well.
Please don't talk about Jeter fist pump when you have Papelbon, Becket, Manny and a laptop thief who get a no-hitter. I don't make fun of Jose Reyes and Delgado anymore cause Cabrera and Cano are almost (about %10) as bad now.
Chad,
You are a Masshole. Not a journalist. Just a pure yob and a Masshole. This is why the rest of the country hates you and your brethren. And you pass yourself off as a journalist. Idiot.
26 reasons I hate Chad Finn: You're an A**Hole 26 times.
That might be the funniest thing I've ever read.
Red Sox Nation is sorely in need of a beat-down. Talk about your sense of entitlement? Look in the mirror. Total lack of humility and hubris.
//Same old crap year after year.//
26 rings! 26 rings! 26 rings! Talk about the same old crap. What have you done this century?
//team has no 'fire'.//
Yeah, tell that to Dustin Pedroia and Jonathan Papelbon. Not to mention Josh Beckett.
//manny decided to only take september off this year and won't play again in regular season.//
Is that you, Meterparel?
//team will be swept in
playoffs.//
Yeah, because the Minnesota Twins proved last year that a late surge means absolute dominance in the playoffs.
//message: FIRE FRAN'COMA'//
Fire a guy who won a World Series and has managed this team to the best record in baseball. Yeah right.
//and EPSTEIN!!!//
Yeah, because drafting Pedroia and Buchholz and Papelbon and Ellsbury and holding on to Lester and trading Gabbard (who was just shut down for the rest of the season with arm trouble) and trading for and re-signing Beckett were ridiculous moves.
//do they really look like a team with a 170 million payroll?//
Well no, because they're not.
Some Red Sox fan. Yankee fan more like it. Shouting ignorance at the top of his lungs.
I feel like I just read some high school girl's diary griping about the popular kids. Jesus, beyotch, here's a tampon and quit crying already! If your team loses the division, IT IS ALL ON THEM! Blow your nose, Chaddie Finn!
Yikes! I can't believe all of the comments from cfy fans. Guess no one on nyyfans bumped the "Umps/Selig/MLB are out to get the yankees" threads, so they have no where else to go.
Chad, very nice list, but you forgot the stupid rollcall that the bleacher-creatures yell before every game.
Yeah, Pat, 'cause "Sweet Caroline" is not annoying enough without the "ba ba ba" and "so good..so good!". Or the screaming at the top of the lungs everytime a ball gets near "I like to stand on home plate" Youkliss
Hey Chad.. 3 1/2 games back and dwindling everyday.. Put that in your computer..
Jealousy is such a bitter emotion. Demonstrated quite well here. Bring out the violin, I need to play a few chords.
Once again "Idiot Nation" ranting and spreading hatred instead of root, root, rooting for the home team.
//"Idiot Nation" ranting and spreading hatred instead of root, root, rooting for the home team.//
I guess adding Damon to the Yankees makes them "Idiot Nation" now?
The Yankees are Evil Empire and then Redsox are Evil Empire Jr. Yup Redsox doesn't spend and paying for elite amateur talent than by signing the biggest-name free agent every winter Like Dice-gay, JD "nancy Drew and Julio "coachroach" Lugo. He looks like coachroach with his scary eyes of his.
Lucchino aka "Lucifer" brainwashing by Redsox Nation and Yankees haters calling Yankees Evil Empire .. I hate Redsox uniforms which is Red. Red represent The Devil......
How would you feel as Jets and Knicks haven't won a championships for fourty years while Pats and Celtics won alot of titles. Celtics have 16 and Pats won 3.. Bostons sports Fans are bunch of spoiled brats , crying and complaining. ,. muahahah, Redsox never won title.
Thanks to Terrorists of 9/11 aka Redsox Fans who terrorized and destroyed Twins Tower> If you read the 9/11 book Chad, The Terrorists came from Boston logan airport.They sick and envy of Ny success by blowing up Twin towers and winning karma Yankees had.
Brilliant list, Chad.
"Bleacher Buttafuocos": priceless.
PS. The comment from the previous asshole was one of the more pathetic attempts at humor I've ever seen.
Dear God, my IQ just dropped 30 points while reading that "Redsox are Devil" rant. o.O
You are a patheic jealous person. Get a life and get over yourself. You proved my point, Sox fans have no class.
To wish bad thinga on a person is utterly sick and disgusting
Who knew so many Skankee fans lurked at TATB? Their "witty" comebacks are impressive. 
Great list Chad, but I'd put Michael Kay further up on the list. His voice is like nails on a chalkboard. If never hear another "SEE-YA!" it'll be too soon.
Wow, Chad, you must have been linked to by YanksFanVsSoxFan again, or maybe by that meathead Peter Abraham from the Lohud blog, because the Bleacher Buttafuocos have found you and come out in full force.
Note to Vinny, Guido, Vito et al from the Bronx: as guests in Chad's house, you need to show some manners and display a minimum level of personal hygiene, so put on sportjackets over those soiled wife-beaters and gold chains, and put on some hairnets so you don't get grease and oil all over the furniture.
Note to Chad, always love your stuff, liked the list, especially the inclusion of that jackass (and grossly overrated ballplayer) Nettles, who doesn't get hated on enough by RSN for his overall douchebaggery in the 70's. But the items I take exception to:
Aaron Boone. Dude is totally irrelevant; he just happened to be there when Wakey threw a meatball...the game was already lost by that point, and 100% of the blame goes to Grady Gump. We know that Wake was not the goat, so by the same measure Boone is too inconsequential to be a villain.
Reggie. Yeah, I understand why you would hate him, his schtick and his outsized ego, but I can't quite work up the same level of vitriol for him for a couple reasons: one, he always seemed to respect Yaz and the Sox a ton, and two, any guy that was so thoroughly hated by assholes like Nettles, Munson, Gossage, Lyle and that racist prick Billy Martin can't be all bad. In fact, I probably would have included that sociopath Martin instead of Reggie. From the current team, I would have that whiner Dumbosada. Finally, I would have lumped Aaron "Pact With Satan" Small in w/Shelley Duncan for his performance in '05.
Oh, and Karim Garcia? Who is Karim Garcia?!?
One World Series win in 86yrs and your gods gift to baseball. Nice job w/ the 14 1/2 game lead!
UUUUUU Suuuccckkkk
Be a good boy, JOE, and put on your sportjacket and hairnet.
AJM,
When the Sox go 3 and out in the playoffs, I will gloat and think of you and Chad Finn. Tools like you represent everything that is wrong with sports fans in New England: pompous, arrogant, entitled and corrupt.
Wow, Larry, being a fan of the only team in baseball history to choke away a 3-0 lead in a playoff series certainly has made you bitter. Or is it the fact that your team has won zero championships in the 21st Century (here's a hint: it's the one we're currently living in) despite spending well over $1B in payroll?
Whatever...come on in, relax, and make yourself comfortable. But put on your sportjacket and hairnet first.
AJM, every time you type, you reveal yourself as a true Boston bigot. But that's what you people are all about, isn't it? Bigotry and discrimination are your only heritage. Your town always hated the blacks and still do, right? Now you hate Italians? Stay classy Boston! You represent well. It's funny how Boston wins one World Series title in a bazillion years and thinks that it cancels out everything else. Congratulations on that one world title in the modern era. You are now equal to the Phillies.
The great and classy Joe DiMaggio faced the same kind of racist anti-Italian bigotry, usually out of the mouths and typewriters of foul Boston fans and scribes. It's nice to see nothing has changed in New England. Bigots, discrimination and CHEATERS.
Time to go, Larry. Your parole officer is calling.
It's weird, Cinder, most of the traffic has come from my Boston.com affiliation, with just a little bit from some YES Network message board as well as the legendary NYYfans site. While the collective IQ of the commenters here has been dragged down about 50 points today, I do appreciate all the hits (10,000 and counting, which is a top 10 day) from the Yankee nitwits.
I would argue that what "represent everything that is wrong with sports fans" anywhere is that they now have a way of anonymously hurling insults at complete strangers and that they do so with poor grammar.
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Larry is right. You were once the cradle of liberty. Now, you are the cradle of jerks, bigots and cheaters.
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All right, let's keep it to baseball, general insults, and verbal beatdowns of Larry, guys. No need to bring race or culture into it any further.
Uh....Go Yankees. That is all. That list sucks.
Nothing sounds sweeter than the chants of "Go Pats!" in September!
You classless, obnoxious, self-righteous, declare the year over in April, jerkoff morons NEVER learn.
Giving you the title in 04 -- yes, GIVING you -- didn't change you mental midgets one bit. One would think that you would've at least made a good attempt at acting like "you've been there". But no. It only made you feel like you were entitled to more, and it only brought out more your innate shit-flinging monkey tendencies.
I wish you nothing but ill over the next 2 weeks. I hope you wake up every night in a cold sweat wondering how 1978 DID INDEED repeat.
Suck on it, losers!
Good rant, and outstanding spelling for a Yankees fan (you even got that tricky 'E" right in "monkey" - are you the one that passed second grade?) but it looks like you left the toddler in the Fiero again, so you'd better move along.
I guess I should note in response to the now departed Larry that I actually am Italian, and obviously don't hate Italians. Not fond of greasy, wife-beater wearing Yankee fans, though. Joe Dimaggio was an asshole who held petty grudges and beat Marilyn...the idea that he was classy was a myth perpetuated by his sportswriter buddies.
But enough of that. The relevant question: when did Tito Francona morph into Grady Gump? His bullpen management has been beyond atrocious for the past week.
Nick Cafardo of the Boston Globe, 5/11/07
Too early to call the American League East race over? Too early to say this team could run away with it? After they won five of six against the Twins and Blue Jays, how far-fetched is it to say the Red Sox are well on their way to winning this in a landslide? There is no competition.
Kevin Hench of Fox Sports, 5/31/07
The Yankees will not erase a 14-game deficit and reel in the Red Sox, nor will they catch the runner-up in the A.L. Central for the wild card. In what seems certain to be his last season as manager in New York, Joe Torre will miss the playoffs for the first time.
Chris Russell of Sporting News, 5/20/07
That is why the Yankees are done. It's early, but go ahead and pin this up. Take it to the bank.
Eric Wilbur of Boston.com, 8/7/07
They’re just a half-game out of the wild card lead, but let’s not overlook the competition they’ve abused to get into this position. That’s about to change, as it is for the Red Sox in a completely opposite manner. Before Boston heads to the Bronx on Aug. 28, it will face teams that it is a combined 17-5 against this season.
The Yankees have gone 19-7 against similar competition. But that’s coming to an end. As is any lingering alarm that they might make a run at the division. Call it obnoxious, call it foolhardy, call it a certain counting of fowl, whatever. Six games might be as close as they get from here on out. In just over a week, it might even be eight.
5.31.07, Kevin Hench, special to FOXSports.com
"The Yankees are old, injury-prone and, in some cases, shadows of their former selves. Ron Guidry is a 56-year-old pitching coach, not a 27-year-old phenom in the midst of one of the greatest seasons in baseball history.
But the main reason the Yanks won't catch the Red Sox is Boston is built for the long haul in 2007, a perfect blend of starting pitching, relief pitching, hitting and defense."
Great post...very funny indeed. It's also nice to know Sox fans are still so preoccupied with the Empire. That form of flattery never gets old!
Will - Glad to see someone got the underlying joke here. In between all the cheap shots, there is a begrudging respect for the Yankees.
When will the nation as it is called learn that the red sox are second best always have been and always be.
I learned that working at Fenway
when I was sixteen. I no longer walk the streets of Boston or stay up nights wondering weather or not they will. I am a member of the empire as you have all named us,and the best has yet to come. It must be hell to have to hear those footsteps.
so busy worrying about the yankees in September that they ( Boston ) forgets the rest of the league and not to mention the annual tradition except for 2004 ( the only ONE 1 )
Personally, I was hoping that the Herald would have a picture of Chad Finn holding his ankles rather than a picture of a panic button.
Okay, gotta run. My mom wants me to come loofa her stretch marks.
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1) Kind of a cheap shot at Steinbrenner, who apparently has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel, but I can understand the frustration. Still, I've been rooting for the Yanks for over 30 years, and there's no owner in any of the professional leagues that will do as much to get his team a championship. And still makes a profit year after year after year.
2&3) I can see why a fan of a team paying Julio Lugo $8 million a year might not like Jeter. Really, I understand this. It's OK. It's even more understandable when we consider said team is paying Edgar Rentaria several million to play outstanding SS for the Braves.
4) Clemens is a total mercenary. But he's our total mercenary. And while he's done exactly what I expected of him, (.500 record, ERA over 4.00), the Yankees wouldn't be where they are without him.
5) Well, if that's your logic on Jackson, and it's certainly solid, I guess you hate the A's, the O's and the Angels as well.
6) Don't throw stones in glass houses. I've seen Dice-K walk off to a standing O at Fenway after giving up 5 runs in 6 innings and handing out walks like candy on Halloween.
7) Odd, that's why I hated Theo Epstein, until he hit his head in the shower and spent $70 million for Drew.
Yeah, he does get caught doing that a lot doesn't he? Next year it'll be Girardi.
9) A-rod's slumping now, so he'll have it out of the way for October. I hope.
10) Yep, Zimmer was probably our MVP in '78.
11) Giambi may be the most honest man in baseball, aside from Canseco. Which is a sad, sad statement.
12) But he did get a ring.
13) No wait, chant "Yankees suck" again.
14) Shelley Duncan costs way less than Drew, and even after that authograph, red Sox fans like him more than JD.
15) You forgot Kevin Maas. As I would like to.
16) Damon's actually turning into a fine left-fielder. next year he will probably fall apart like a leper going down a rocky hill, but this year he's found his niche.
17) Karim Garcia? Really? There wasn't anyone else?
1 You leave Suzyn alone. Her orgasmic announcement of Roger being in George's box has brought smiles and outright guffaws to millions the world over.
19) Yes, Glenn Geffner, or whatever his name is, is much better than Kay.
20) Sterling's tough to take. I have nothing on that.
21) Bill Lee was and is an insufferable a-hole, and there aren't enough bad things that can happen to him.
22) I'll see your Mel Hall and raise you a Carl Everett.
23) Bucky might be your next shortstop. Careful.
24) Yeah, that one had to hurt.
25) You guys do realize the Red Sox are still 2.5 games up right? Right? Helloooooo.
26) I'd rather have that sense of entitlement that that sense of overwhelming doom and gloom. God, what a miserable group of people.
Well, with that last list, it's official, Chad: You've definitely gotten way under the skins of Yankee fans.
Apologies in advance, Chad, but since Larry the Mouthbreather has resurfaced in this thread, I didn't want the tired, dopey old 'Boston fans are racist' meme that he brought up to go unchallenged:
I was at the Sox/Yanks game at the Stadium a few weeks ago (the Beckett/Clemens game where Ortiz broke up the no-no with an upper deck shot), and while walking out one of Larry's fellow mouthbreathers yelled "well, at least your gorilla hit a homer" at a guy in Sox garb. I had read on SoSH that this was the Bleacher Buttafuocos' standard racist insult for Papi, but I just couldn't believe it until I heard it with my own ears. You stay classy, Yank fans.
Classic post. Carl Everett... Relative of yours Chad?
Having read thru this thread, I have come to the independant conclusion that Larry owned you AJM. At no point did Larry utter a racial or ethnic insult but you consistently resort to them. Plus, you mention SOSH as if that is an arbiter of class, distinction and humanity. SOSH is the biggest group of anti-semites and bigots that New England can manage to put together in one internet spot. Not a good source to try to prop up as some sort of Nobel Prize winning group of humanists.
Also, I have a general question that I would like to ask this site. Why are Red Sox fans complete and utter ****? I have been to baseball games all over the country. Yankee fans are not unbearable like you people are. Cardinal fans are a delight and extremely knowledgable. Giants fans are accomodating and cosmopolitan. I could go on and on about this team or that, but nothing compares to the bitter pills that follow the Red Sox. Is it something in the water? Is the soil contaminated? Is it some sort of secret indoctrination that occurs in your grade schools that the rest of the country is unaware of?
Yankee fans are not unbearable like you people are.
Does that include the Yankee fans that call Ortiz a gorilla? Or who chant 'asshole' at anyone wearing the garb of opposing teams, even if that person is minding their own business? Or who threw objects on the field during Game 6 of the 2004 ALCS because they didn't like a (100% correct) overruling of a call by the umpires?
Your charge that SoSH is anti-semitic is comletely baseless and profoundly stupid. So is your generic claim that all Red Sox fans are ***holes.
Chad, my apologies for the role I played in tarnishing this comment thread by engaging the idiots who have come in here to dump on you. I'm done.
HO-LEE CRAP.
such vitriol from yanks fans. can't understand it -- for some reason, they'll never be secure with their place in history.
by the way, "toddler in the fiero" was genius. loved it. laughed out loud. wife then rolled her eyes at me.
question is, how is a yanks fan supposed to remember their kid when they forgot the child-leash at home?
Chaddy, one word for you and the Red Sox Nation LOSERS!
Am I still banned?
Guess not. Cool.
1.5 games after tonight. Odd how hard I find myself rooting for the Tigers to start winning. Saw some of the Red Sox highlights tonight. What was with Lugo semi-jogging to 1st??? What's with Manny? Is he on the Clemens Half-Year program, only in reverse? And what happened to that bullpen.
I'll be honest, I thought the Sawx had the division wrapped up and I said so. I was rooting for the wild card. But the bullpen is suddenly a disaster, Lugo and Drew keep getting playing time, and Manny's gone MIA again. $10 says the Angels nickel and dime the Yankees out of the play-offs again this year, (God I hate them), but man, Boston's in trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with D, and that starts the name Drew.
You want to know why Yankees fans come to your board? Because you're amusing, like the sad clown, you're so pathetic you make me laugh. Does that make me a jerk, maybe. But I still think you're funny.
What are you twelve? This would be great stuff if it were satire, but the fact that you're serious is priceless.
1.5 games is a mightly slim margin. I should also mention that the way that you turn on each other is also quite funny. I can't wait to see the finger pointing and recriminations once we eliminate you in the ACLS.
Wow. The mouthbreathers have really come out of the woodwork, haven't they? It's a shame too because there were some great discussions in this blog's comment section. Sounds like it's registration time, Chad.
Before you blast New Yorkers, why dont we send the whole New England area to school for linguistic classes. Why are you the only area in the country that talk like Morons.
Another comment, how come idiot red sox fans give their starters ovations after they give up seven runs in five innings.
In closing, the red sox should be proud that they made the three worst moves of 2007. The signing of Nancy Drew, Mice-K, and Goggles Gagne were mind blowing. Who the hell ever referred to Eptein as boy genius. Cant wait until Sunday when the Yanks are in first place.
I always love the anti-Italian and we-New-Englanders-are-smarter-than-New-Yorkers attitude. Everyone in Massachusetts thinks their relatives came off the Mayflower and promptly thereafter graduated from Harvard. In fact, you most likely are descended from Irish peasants that came over after potatoes stopped growing. Bottomline: non-Italians were blue faced barbarians before the Romans civilized them. Oh, and give up on the colloquial and exaggerated urban accent that you so proudly cling to and advertise on Burger King commercials. It's wicked retahded.
Wow. All the Yankee fans are certaintly back out of the closet now. Just a few months ago they were pretty quiet.
I love your comments. I think about the only thing I would have done differently is move Michael Kay higher up the list-he is the symbol of Yankee entitlement and pomposity. I have lived in New York all of my life and have been a die hard Sox fan since 1975. I take a lot of heat, but quite simply could never consider supporting another team.
back out of the closet??? Man o man by now you should know that we are and always have been a second half team. You know what though, I wish I could have seen the look on the faces of "sox nation" when they heard they got Gagne and we ddn't, instead we brought up some guy, what's his name, o yeah Joba!!! haha, good luck in the playoffs. But hey, if all goes well and the weather holds up a little bit longer, the sox will be on the golf coarse in no time practicing their swing...now thats a game they have an advantage over the Yanks in.
Ah... ya mudder wears combat boots.
What's the matter, Hooks? Can't take the truth so you want to ban those of us who tell it? Sure, just leave the comments restricted and for Boston fans only. That's a nice free exchange of ideas.
I'm yet to see a whole lot of "ideas," tony, but don't worry, I'm not closing the comments. I'm enjoying watching Yankees fans living down to my expectations. Who knew I'd been overestimating them all these years?
Man......there's enough sour grapes in this to make a large barrel of wine.
the other night my wife took our 4 year old to the d-backs game with some of her friends. one of her friends took our son to the peter piper play area (yes, the d-backs will do anything to get people to come to games). here's an email my wife received from her friend the next day:
...at the play area he was looking at these little boys wearing Yanky hats. He wouldn't play with them and he was saying something under his breath. I bent down and asked him what was going on and he said, "I don't like Yanky boys". I wasn't sure if he was going to go up to them and say something mean or just sit there and give them the evil eye, so I told him, "Those boys??? Heck Zach, under their hats, they're just like you. Just little boys who want to play. You don't have
your hat on right now...just pretend they don't either. I bet they'd love to play with you." With that, he ran over to them and asked if they
wanted to play...and they did. Sooo funny.
i know the moral of this story should be "we can learn a lot from our kids." but i can't help thinking how much effort i put into raising him right and my wife's friend completely undermines me.
Limpy99 has the only NY comments worth reading in this whole, overly long comments thread. Thanks limpy99 - good debate between adversaries can be worthwhile, just like good baseball between adversaries. The rest of this is just a preschool slap-fight, and an utter waste of everyone's time.
Yeah, Limpy's been around here before. I respect his take.
its cute that you "hate" the yankees yet you "use" your time to discuss them. i concede that george steinbrenner is a god damn moron... however Joe Torre and Derek Jeter are two of the classiest men in baseball and for you to say anything bad about them and their success is just asinine. you hate the yankees because they are more successful then your team... thats wicked intelligent.
Joe "Torre" is ABSOLUTELY the "classiest" booger
"farmer" in major "league" baseball, I will "grant" you that.
(Wait . . . is he a "booger farmer" or "an avid boogersman"? I always forget the correct term.)
I tell ya, this Yankee moronfest is almost making the Red Sox tank job worthwhile.
Wow, as one of your original 6 readers I never knew so many MFY fans read this site...a big hello to all of you! Glad you got back to the baseball as I find the Pats stuff a bit annoying. I recognise that you did the list for a bit of fun, well done. Its pretty obvious you threw it up there to stir the pot a bit, but wow look at how nasty people get. Keep up the good work; and MFY fans I'm always happy to read constructive things but please keep your childish vitriol to yourselves; its boring.
Good to hear from you, Keith . . . er, Hugh.
This really has turned into a veritable moron-extravaganza, but I do believe "Phil F." has given us all a little lesson here.
To have a New Yorker suggest that all of New England needs "linguistic classes" and is "the only area in the country that talk like morons" is the finest example of not seeing the forest for the trees that I've ever seen. Oh, sorry...the WICKED finest...
I guess I get to finish this thread. And I'll say it with the only two words that matter:
Grady Little
Grady Little
Grady Little
Grady Little
I'll raise you a Kevin Brown.
I find the level of Yankee fans' obsession with the Red Sox amusing. I recently heard a Yankee fan call into our esteemed sports radio station recently, and when the host wouldn't agree with him, he started screaming "26-6! 26-6!" at the top of his lungs. Hilarious.
Obsession with the red sox,I hardly think so. I'm sure he just got carried away with the 26-6 26-6 but it really is hard to listen to the BS that your "esteemed sports radio station" spins. The numbers really do speak volumes. Theres an old saying I hear in Boston quite a bit,it goes something like, oh well theres always next year.
That....was truly...AWSOME. From the frustrated, pissed-off, despising-that-smug-face-on-my-pinstripe-fan-
coworker (sorta like Jeter's smirk, eeeuugggghhh, in Vermont no less, this is Red Sox country!)--THANK YOU! You said it better than I ever could!
Awesome responses!
I'm glad to see the Skank fans can still be so easily riled up.
I certainly look forward to their likely demise in this post-season. If it's us who have to do it again, fine, but even better if it's the Indians.
Well, I think we know who got the last word.
Wow, Yankees fans are really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, amusing!
This was priceless, just absolutely wonderful. The article was OK, but the arrogance of the Yankee fans was tremendous.
This thread closed down months ago, and no one is going to see this, but I'll get this on record for the gods of ball, who see everything ...
Yes, we Red Sox fans respect the Yankees. Gotta do it. 26 titles equals the championships won by MLB's three most accomplished runners-up (Cards, A's, Bosox*) combined.
(*Not counting 1904 ... don't get me started.)
We respect great Bombers like Torre, Jeter, and even ol' No. 44. Sure, Reggie could inflate a flotilla of hot-air balloons by his lonesome, but other than Bill Mueller, has Red Sox Nation ever had so agreeable and entertaining an opponent? He bashed our brains in for a decade and a half, but then again, we bloodied him and his mates up pretty good in 1975 and '86.
We respect bright, well-informed, and good-natured Yankee partisans. "Limpy99" is a hoot. Does he have a blog?
Ha. For the record, I don't respect the Yankees. Spending 150 million more than most teams isn't really worth respect imo. It's worth reform and revenue sharing.
And I've never looked this up, but it is my belief that back in the day, the day when the team from NY was winning most of those titles - there was no draft in MLB. You simply sent scouts out with contracts in hand and they tried to sign the best talent. Then, like now, the Yanks had loads more cash. While teams like the Sox were trying to turn a profit by reusing the hot dog water- the Yanks just threw money at every swinging **** they could find. No respect for that, sorry.
Drafting Larry Bird a year before he finished college?
Now that's something worth respecting.
Don't you hate when people comment on old stuff like this? I know I do
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