baseball

[trochee]

I haven't watched sports in a long time.

But I enjoyed spending three and a half hours in a basement pub off campus tonight, the room crowded with Red Sox fans, Yankee enemies, and a few hardy Yankee fans. We screamed and shouted when the tension was high, got beer spilled on us, and generally had a good time.

The game ended tragically -- Boston lost in the 11th, after leading the first six innings. I tried to explain why I was rooting for the Sox to exterra; the best I could do was:

It's like a contest between Apple and Microsoft. You don't gotta love Apple, but you'll root for anybody against the giant monopoly.

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Yeah.

[lx.livejournal.com]

And out of the 100 or so World Series that have been held, the Yankees have 26 of the titles. It's a dismal state of affairs for parity, but I suppose the New Yorkers love it. ;)

Money can't buy you love, but ostensibly it can buy you a pennant.

Re: Yeah.

[epanastatis.livejournal.com]

Not this New Yorker. Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the U.S. (Of course, insofar as I care about baseball at all, which is very little, I'm a resentful Mets fan.)

Heh

[lx.livejournal.com]

I had just remarked to a friend (puncher) that I thought it was sort of crass of the Yankees to pose as "America's Team" after 9/11 as a marketing ploy, but as he replied:

"if you take it in the context of how the yankees are compared to the rest of MLB...
they are a good metaphor for America!
Crude, rich, have won too much, and are convinced that all the glory comes from them."