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October Surprises
Oct. 14th, 2012 08:17 pmI love the way the national press, especially the New York-centric press, wails and moans about the dire shape the New York Yankees are in and how horrible the entire situation is.
Perspective: you suckers are in the American League Championship Series. So you're already in better shape than all but two teams in the AL and all but four teams in Major League Baseball. This is why nobody outside of New York actually likes you pinstriped pricks-- because if you're not winning the World Series every damned year, it's a tragedy!!!111eleventy-one.
Screw you guys. The Oakland A's were happy just to get to the ALDS, because everybody wrote them off before the season began.
OK. Derek Jeter breaking his ankle was not a nice thing to see. At the guy's age, it may well be the end of his career. It's not pretty and very squirm-inducing even if you hate the team's collective guts.
Now, if A-Rod had broken his leg and been out for the season, y'all would've breathed a collective sigh of relief and maybe busted out the celebratory champagne because that guy's become a jillion-dollar liability and it appears his body's shot even on a good day. And the rest us wouldn't have cared because A-Rod's an asshole and did I mention nobody actually likes you guys?
But A-Rod is part of the reason that empty seats in Yankee Stadium during the pennant race and the total inability of your batters to hit stuff (unless facing Detroit's own Papa Grande, whoops) do not constitute a tragedy for anyone with an iota of perspective. You paid for him, and he's your problem. A-Rod on his own costs how much more than the entire A's roster? Yeah. Screw you guys.
A Tigers/Giants World Series would make me very happy, but any season in which the Yankees get sent home during the playoffs is good in my book. I hope Justin Verlander and company can get this sewn up before the ALCS shifts back to New York, but we do have that little issue of a closing pitcher (ain't got one) and hey, people choke. So the Yankees aren't actually toast even now.
But to hear the Yankee-friendly press whine, you'd think they finished dead last in the AL or something. They're sore winners and sore losers and that's why nobody actually likes them.
Perspective: you suckers are in the American League Championship Series. So you're already in better shape than all but two teams in the AL and all but four teams in Major League Baseball. This is why nobody outside of New York actually likes you pinstriped pricks-- because if you're not winning the World Series every damned year, it's a tragedy!!!111eleventy-one.
Screw you guys. The Oakland A's were happy just to get to the ALDS, because everybody wrote them off before the season began.
OK. Derek Jeter breaking his ankle was not a nice thing to see. At the guy's age, it may well be the end of his career. It's not pretty and very squirm-inducing even if you hate the team's collective guts.
Now, if A-Rod had broken his leg and been out for the season, y'all would've breathed a collective sigh of relief and maybe busted out the celebratory champagne because that guy's become a jillion-dollar liability and it appears his body's shot even on a good day. And the rest us wouldn't have cared because A-Rod's an asshole and did I mention nobody actually likes you guys?
But A-Rod is part of the reason that empty seats in Yankee Stadium during the pennant race and the total inability of your batters to hit stuff (unless facing Detroit's own Papa Grande, whoops) do not constitute a tragedy for anyone with an iota of perspective. You paid for him, and he's your problem. A-Rod on his own costs how much more than the entire A's roster? Yeah. Screw you guys.
A Tigers/Giants World Series would make me very happy, but any season in which the Yankees get sent home during the playoffs is good in my book. I hope Justin Verlander and company can get this sewn up before the ALCS shifts back to New York, but we do have that little issue of a closing pitcher (ain't got one) and hey, people choke. So the Yankees aren't actually toast even now.
But to hear the Yankee-friendly press whine, you'd think they finished dead last in the AL or something. They're sore winners and sore losers and that's why nobody actually likes them.
