Yankees
I'm going out and might not be home for the start of the game so I have to post this now.
I am so fucking nervous I am carrying a package of Tums around with me.
I'm going to watch the game horror movie style, with my hands over my eyes.
LET'S GO YANKEES!
I don't know if I can watch.
Update [9:00] I swear, sometimes I want to kick A-Rod's ass. Hard.
[9:20]
Argh. I'm going to watch the rest of the game by not watching the rest of the game. I'll do laundry while pretending to pay attention. Feel free to comment on the game, as I won't be.
Comments
What time is the game??? I can't find it on my cable listing here in LA.
Posted by: Mark | October 10, 2005 05:45 PM
Broadcast starts @ 8;00 Eastern, on FOX.
My wife is threatening to tie me to a chair for the duaration of the game.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | October 10, 2005 05:50 PM
out of curiousity, do Yankees fans at the game have any traditions or particular songs?
The Cubs fans throw homeruns back onto the field.
There's that rally monkey thing.
is there are 'local flavor' to a Yankees game?
Other than being played in a stadium where twenty-some World Series were won.
Posted by: BumperStickerist | October 10, 2005 05:51 PM
Thanks!
GO ANGELS!!!
Posted by: Mark | October 10, 2005 05:52 PM
Bumper-
Yankees fans are the loudest in the world, if that counts as 'local flavor'.
One thing that i think is particular to Yankees fans is that at the beginning of each and every game, the bleacher creatures take 'role call' where every players' name is chanted until he acknowledges with a wave.
Other than that, in my experience, we don't need a stupid monkey or chant to win.
And throwing HR balls back on the field is done at every stadium, unless Cubs fans throw the home team's balls back, too.
Posted by: Alexis | October 10, 2005 06:01 PM
Die.
Oops!
I mean DIE! DIE! DIE! YOU PINSTRIPED BASTARDS!
Other than that, good luck.
And we'll see ya next year.
Posted by: spd rdr | October 10, 2005 07:38 PM
Bump, we've also perfected the art of flinging all the loose change in your pocket at the SOB of your choice playing in the outfield.
We learned that trick after they stopped letting people bring battery operated anything devices because of what was referred to as the "Duracell Downpour" bombing Reggie, who scooped the coins up and shoved them in his pocket.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | October 10, 2005 07:45 PM
Bump, we've also perfected the art of flinging all the loose change in your pocket at the SOB of your choice playing in the outfield.
We learned that trick after they stopped letting people bring battery operated anything devices because of what was referred to as the "Duracell Downpour" bombing Reggie, who scooped the coins up and shoved them in his pocket.
And speedy? A big ol' "Hah! Bite me!"
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | October 10, 2005 07:45 PM
That ain't lunch you've got, TC.
That's finger food.
Seriously, break a friggin' leg...or two.
Posted by: spd rdr | October 10, 2005 08:20 PM
Dayum, that was a good colision!
Posted by: snut | October 10, 2005 09:36 PM
Nothing goes "crunch" quite like two Yankees outfielders.
Posted by: Dean Esmay | October 10, 2005 10:05 PM
Got to the game late... what happened to Colon? I. mean, reading the box score Mussina got bombed but Colon stats didn't look so bad.
Posted by: JFH | October 10, 2005 10:58 PM
Relax. If they had to lose, at least they lose here, and get to spend their first post-season day at Disneyland. [That's probably also why my Angels were all too content to lose for so many years.]
Posted by: Xrlq | October 10, 2005 11:20 PM
I'm scared (bottom of the 8th).
Posted by: Karol | October 10, 2005 11:30 PM
Yes, my yankees voodoo doll has worked thus far. 3 more outs.
Posted by: Azrael | October 10, 2005 11:34 PM
Cool, both teams gonna have top of the order in the ninth. I can't wait.
Posted by: jess | October 10, 2005 11:35 PM
Dammit! We don't pay you to hit into double plays, A Rod.
Posted by: burt | October 10, 2005 11:39 PM
heh heh heh, nice double play int teh top of the 9th!
Posted by: mark | October 10, 2005 11:39 PM
Nice double-play by the Angels.
Posted by: Dean Esmay | October 10, 2005 11:40 PM
maybe I shoulda kept my mouth shut
Posted by: Mark | October 10, 2005 11:41 PM
Oh crap
Posted by: Mark | October 10, 2005 11:43 PM
Hey. Better luck next year.
It must be nice having a team that you know will probably at least make the playoffs even in a bad year. Try growing up with the White Sox. :-)
Posted by: Dean Esmay | October 10, 2005 11:45 PM
Yeeeeeeessssssss!!!!!!
Posted by: Mark | October 10, 2005 11:45 PM
Yes!!! Bye bye Yank-Me's!
Posted by: Azrael | October 10, 2005 11:46 PM
Yesss, indeed.
Posted by: Xrlq | October 10, 2005 11:46 PM
Same time next year?
Posted by: spd rdr | October 10, 2005 11:48 PM
wow. i'm a sox fan, but i gotta say, you guys are assholes. gloat all you want about what happened, but for fuck's sake, she's a fan and this is her blog--ever think of maybe doing it somewhere else tonight? you know, right away?
i didn't see michelle gloating on any sox fans' blogs when the yanks won the division or when the sox got swept. there's a difference between hating a team and being hateful to a fan who never did anything to you.
this thread has been sickening.
Posted by: beth | October 10, 2005 11:58 PM
wow. i'm a sox fan, but i gotta say, you guys are assholes. gloat all you want about what happened, but for fuck's sake, she's a fan and this is her blog--ever think of maybe doing it somewhere else tonight? you know, right away?
i didn't see michelle gloating on any sox fans' blogs when the yanks won the division or when the sox got swept. there's a difference between hating a team and being hateful to a fan who never did anything to you.
this thread is sickening.
Posted by: beth | October 10, 2005 11:59 PM
You're kidding, right?
Posted by: soxfan | October 11, 2005 12:04 AM
I'm not gona gloat because the Yanks kept it close all night. A damn good game from both teams, and my guys came out on the winning end.
Now, beat those South side bastards!
Posted by: Sean M. | October 11, 2005 12:08 AM
Damned good game.
Congrats to the Yanks, but more congrats to the Angels. Very well played.
Now, I'd like to see it be Angels/Astros (though I think it'll be the Cards).
Since my team shit the bed so early (grrr...stupid Red Sox), I'll be rooting for whomever I have the most respect for at the time.
Posted by: kat | October 11, 2005 12:19 AM
I think I understand what Beth means. See, I would gloat here, but I would never, EVER, go to someone else's blog and gloat on their space in their comments right after their team loses. It's the difference between hanging a "Red Sox suck" banner on the front window of your house and going to the home of a Red Sox fan and hanging that same banner on their window.
Anyhow, I deserve whatever I get. Such is the way of sports fandom. You dish it out, you take it back.
See you all next year. Same bat time, same bat channel.
Posted by: michele | October 11, 2005 05:28 AM
All this over badminton?
Posted by: Zarba | October 11, 2005 09:01 AM
There is nothing any Yankee-hater can say that galls me more than the fact that Contreros, El Duque, Pettite and Clemens are still pitching while I'm folding up my Yankees flag, stowing the tee shirts and other stuff away and building a homicidal rage to be delivered on A-Hole's soul.
I never imagined the pure fury I held against "RhoidBoy" Giambi could ever be surpassed. A-Hole proved me wrong.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | October 11, 2005 09:14 AM
Wow. As a Sox fan I find it very interesting the animosity you guys have towards your own guys. I mean, I dislike A-Rod and Giambi but it seems like you guys hate them more than us Sox fans do! I can't really say that I 'hate' anybody on the Sox, though there are a couple of them that annoy the hell out of me at times [Millar, Renteria]. Oh well. Baseball is ovah. GO PATS.
Posted by: mrbandw | October 11, 2005 09:36 AM
It's all A-Rod's fault?
Methinks not... did A-Rod run into Sheffield? Did A-Rod get them there? Did A-Rod have the season they expected of him when they signed him?
No, Yes and YES respectively.
Dis him if you want to, but he's become a Yankee right through to that smug little smile that I just want to slap off his face.
White Sox win their first since the scandal. Yankees are where they belong... the highest paid golfers in the history of the game.
Again.
Posted by: Jim S | October 11, 2005 10:40 AM
//Wow. As a Sox fan I find it very interesting the animosity you guys have towards your own guys.//
dude, we're from the town that booed manny ramirez. i can't believe i'm defending the yankees fan AGAIN, but you're in a bit of a glass house with that one.
Posted by: beth | October 11, 2005 11:09 AM
Did A-Rod get them there?
Not on your life, Jimbo. Small, Chacon and Wang got them there. Without that trio they were dead. And when they did get there, A-Hole choked.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | October 11, 2005 11:11 AM
mrbandw: They ain't "our guys" if they don't come across come playoff time. Clemens was tolerated only because he produced. Steinbrenner doles out the mad Bossbucks and we Yankee fans willingly catch the "trying to buy the World Series" crap from every direction as long as the bastards perform. The 1996-2001 teams never took the abuse the current crew receive because they all showed up in the crunch.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | October 11, 2005 11:24 AM
//dude, we're from the town that booed manny ramirez.//
Yes some dumbasses at Fenway booed Manny, (which was totally stupid in my opinion), and then days later all was forgiven and he got a standing ovation at the trade dealine.
I don't see anybody in Yankee-land jumping on the Arod fogiveness train. It seems to me they're mostly ripping him. (Not that I really care, just making an observation.)
Posted by: mrbandw | October 11, 2005 11:42 AM
I've been ripping him since before he was a Yankee. I never liked him, never will.
Plus, you are talking about the fans that ran Ed Whitson out of town. Literally.
Posted by: michele | October 11, 2005 11:45 AM
Wait a minute, Beth. And if I step outta line Michele, I apologize.
I did not see evidence of Yankee hatred in this thread. What I saw were four or five Angels fans posting cheers within seconds of their victory. WITHIN SECONDS!.
Now, if I were watching the game in the home of a Yankee fan, would it be inappropriate for me to blurt, "yaaayyy?" Or should I wait until later and do it in the car ride home?
Michele established a thread for discussing the game, and I doubt she intended it to be limited to Yankee fans. People were commenting in real time. Some yeeessss's slipped out. Is that really so inappropriate?
No, I sincerely doubt it. Michele has a great sense of humor and, in light of the good-natured grief she gve the Sox fans, I'm sure she expects some return. From what her writings reveal about her, she is quite capable of taking it in the proper spirit. Somehow, I doubt Michele is a fragile withering flower.
Posted by: Mark | October 11, 2005 12:29 PM
Somehow, I doubt Michele is a fragile withering flower.
LMAO!
Do your homework about LI girls...I did mine, and I married one.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | October 11, 2005 01:57 PM
I love Zarba. :)
Posted by: snut | October 11, 2005 07:30 PM
i didn't see michelle gloating on any sox fans' blogs when the yanks won the division or when the sox got swept.
You are obviously not a Farker.
Posted by: Mike | October 12, 2005 08:28 PM
Oh come on. That was only in retaliation for the 7,000 RED SOX RULE YANKEES DROOL threads last year.
Posted by: michele | October 12, 2005 08:30 PM
yeah, what ever... go yankees!
Posted by: maureen yankees | October 27, 2005 02:15 PM