Deafening Silence: One and Done

Soul_29

Oct 13, 2015 at 9:31am

jeffl said:
Folks don't like perennial winners, like the Yankess and Cardinals. Why root for a team that wins most of the win. It's much easier to root for the underdog. And the Yankee history of just buying the best players on the market makes them pretty unlikeable. And ARod.

Cardinals are a classy organization.

DaveSchmidt

Oct 13, 2015 at 9:33am Edited

ml1 said:

The Yankees would never have this for a fight song

If I were a Jays fan, I'd kill for that fight song. We were introduced to this one at the Rogers Centre this summer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qag6w_Tp50A&sns=em

@stoughton: Thanks for the laugh.

sac, for me, its not so much the Mets I cant stand, but a large portion of their fans. That said, just as the Yankees have had players that people love to hate, so have the Mets. And Mets fans will invoke the Steinbrenner name, but don't respond at all when any mention of the Wilpons comes up not only for having been in bed with Madoff, but how they treated Nelson Doubleday. Im also very aware that fan is short for fanatic...and anyone who follows most any sport closely these days, professional or collegiate, has to either suspend reality to some extent or live with some serious cognitive dissonance. You can point to hypocrisy all around...followers of both teams have openly booed or criticized their own players, but conveniently forget that when that occurs with the "other team". It all reminds me of the line by Boston Celtics legendary announcer Johnny Most...in a game where Bill Russell was once again in a heated match with the hated rival Wilt Chamberlain, Most announced, "did you see that? Chamberlain just hit Russell in the elbow with his eye socket!"

hankzona said:
It all reminds me of the line by Boston Celtics legendary announcer Johnny Most...in a game where Bill Russell was once again in a heated match with the hated rival Wilt Chamberlain, Most announced, "did you see that? Chamberlain just hit Russell in the elbow with his eye socket!"

In the grand scheme of things, was the eye socket moving towards the elbow or vice versa. Frame of reference is important.