You can hate the Yankees, but c'mon Boston really isn't basket in which to place all your eggs.
I really didn't want to post, because i'm angry and it probably wont come out that great...that and i really dont have much in the way of content tonight...i really have been trying to avoid writing every update about sports, mainly baseball...that is the main thing on my mind however, but what can i tell you that hasnt been said, not much...



The yankees lost and i was really feeling bummed, but i mean this is what dreams are made of, Clemens vs. Pedro, Yankees/Red Sox in the Bronx, Game 7, and after the drama of game 4, the ratings should be through the roof, so major league baseball is happy, Fox is happy and the sports writers are happy. One more day to write and talk about odds and curses...

I don't doubt the Yanks abilltity to win this series, but the fact that any batter in the Boston lineup can hurt you on any pitch is always a scary idea, i mean the yankees are equally as dangerous, and we all know this can go either way...its one game, 9 innnings, 54 outs...Pedro doesnt scare me, the Bronx bombers have been able to hit him, as much as the fact that Roger is pitching so well, and playing what could be his last game ever, should scare the Red Sox....and Wakefield in relief could really make or break the game, because he owns the Yanks.



I am really sick of Ignorance...Yankee haters are buggin me, every team has bandwagon-jumpers...and the best team ever is going to have some, but i really don't know any... but how long on the wagon does it take to claim residency...the Yankees have had the most impressive franchise in sports history since the 1920's and while i can't claim to have been a fan since then, i was born and raised a Yankee fan, watching games with my dad since i was old enough to recognize the flickering images and pretty colors...

Thats the 80's folks, when if you remember, the Yankees weren't any damn good...When, Don Mattingly, Donnie Baseball, was the shining polished jewel in the yankees crown, smelt in the '20s, that was hidden under cobwebs for a decade. Shit, my little brother Alex, who is a fantastic baseball player, and a right hander by design, trained himself as a lefty batter watching and imitating Donnie Baseball in the living room, game after game...soo tell me again about this bandwagon...

I've heard arguments to the effect that a lot of Yankee fans don't know any of the players, and i've never met anyone that fits that description, but the only thing i can think of, is that people of foreign decent who claim Yankees allegiance, may not really be true blue fans of the team, but thats because the Yankees are seen as a beacon of Americanism by many outside the country, its a recognizable symbol...i'm not being racist of trying to unfair in this generalization but, many Cubans are fans of the Yankees due players like Orlando 'El Duque' Hernandez and Jose Contreras, both signed by the Yankees as they fled from Cuba. Just like many Dominicans are Sammy Sosa fans, there are many Asian Ichiro fans and now Matsui fans...

I've also heard the argument about the Yankees having the highest payroll, which is true. New York is a big market, It supports two of the consistently top five highest spending teams, (the Mets are up there, and aren't putting together the same results) but Boston is right up there in the top five as well...but get this, The Yankees make a lot of money in New York, the most revenue generated by a baseball team, Steinbrenner's revenue generated to money spent on payroll ratio is smaller than just about every other teams' ...more simply, for the amount of money the franchise takes in he, could feel justified spending even more than he spends now....so maybe its not as excessive as we all thought..i mean i feel bad for small market teams, but the Red Sox are not by any means a small market team.

I also heard the argument that when Raul Mondesi played on the Yankees, he batted ninth, and he's a player that on any other team could be a clean up hitter, well i agree, except that Jason Varitek, the boston catcher who hit 25 homeruns this season and 4 this post season, bats ninth for Boston, i'd like him as my cleanup if i were any other team too.

i didn't want to get into this but this blind hatred of the Yanks is bleeding into pathetic attempts to bash all things new york...Over the weekend i was too drunk to quip back at this one ignoramus who supported his virginia teamless confusion and yankee hatred with the argument that their was nothing uniquely American about New York, the CITY...

he went past disliking the team that wins, being jelaous of beautiful tradition and excellence, to attacking the city that never sleeps...When he said this i was almost passed out, having been drinking since 10am and the only thing American i could think to jokingly respond with was: "Apple Pie, they gotta make some in the city somewhere"...mike keown did a pretty good drunken job berading this moron...but i think we can all agree this kid is a jerkoff, and i should have drunkenly decked him like a 72 old man...or do we have to get into what makes a place American?...No? Good.

And in closing, i really cant get enough Jeffery Mayer references from these Virginia resident, Baltimore Orioles fans, really its so interesting and funny, i wish i could hear them all the time, i wish i was a bitchy whiny baby too...im sorry ur team's owner wants to sit on his wallet, and i'm sorry the left field umpire made a horrendous call, but you making my ears bleed about that little brat isn't going to make Tony Tarasco catch that ball, or the Orioles play anything but golf in October for 5 to 10 years at least.



I was really looking forward to the Cubs making the series, other than it would make Michael Wilbon happy, because they seemed like underdogs, and when its not my team, i like the underdog, i like seeing things that are surprising and unexpected...but when the Cubs, set NLCS records for runs scored and home runs hit in a series, and went up 3 games to 1, they became the favorites, in my head, even though Wilbon and cubs fans had been robbed before and had to have some skepticism left, how could the Marlins win 3 in a row, including 2 at Wrigley against Mark Prior and Kerry Wood...

Well to the dismay of cubbies fans and the many adopted well wishers as of late, the Marlins did the impossible, just the way you couldn't imagine but kinda suspected all at the same time...Congrats to Josh Beckett, that kid is sick, straight outta high school. a year or two in the pros and nothing but promise for his future...also Pudge Rodriguez, this guy was going no where with Texas, a perrenial allstar, one of the best catchers of all time, and he has a chance at a ring, and if the Yankees blow it, and the Marlins play the Red Sox, i sure hope I-Rod gets a ring.



In non Baseball news, i just heard on CNN that they are making a sequel to Sixteen Candles, yes, John Hughes's Sixteen Candles, its going to revisit the lives of the Samantha Baker, Jake Ryan, Long Duk Dong and Farmer Ted on Sam Baker's 32nd bday, and its gonna be called Thirty-Two Candles...I got shocked and excited at the same time, during the piece on CNN, and at the end, they say, its being made for TV, the USA network and there is no news as to if the original cast will be in it or not...what a tease...

I mean Molly Ringwald is most likely free, and Michael Schoeffling who played Jake Ryan probably doesnt have job offers piling up all over his agents office, and Gedde Watanabe (Long Duk Dong), may not even have an agent anymore..but Anthony Michael Hall's career was ressurected by the Dead Zone series, but wait that is on USA, so maybe contractionally, they can force him...but there is no way either John Cusack, or joan for that matter, would lower themselves to this hack project....who knows, but i'm not excited anymore.



I am going to edinboro PA to see matt, with mike, and some others, im not sure who....im excited to hang with matt and i love road trips in general... its JMU's fall break, so i wont be updating for a few days, hey who cares, nobody reads this shit, well thats not true because i'm tetering on the edge of my bandwidth limits, with a big chunk of the month left to go, damn i wish i had some money, if you want to buy the complete series of Adventures of Pete and Pete on VHS or the hilarious movie no one knows exists Project: ALF then please IM or Email me and i will get back to you when i get back.



I put up a new garfield comic page, i've got tons done, but i cant put them up for another week, so sit tight