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Thursday, October 21, 2004
Punk'd:
Another reason why I love Sarah Bunting:
I did get a couple of "ah HA HA HA HA HA HA, looks gooooooooood on ya" emails, though, which...this is what I was talking about with the double standard. If the Yanks had won and I'd emailed a Red Sox fan and invited her to kiss my ass, I'd get strung up. Physically strung up. With string. But because I'm a Yankee fan, it's okay to gloat in my face, apparently. I've taken pains to give credit where it's due, around here and elsewhere, but I guess that's not good enough.
Yeah, I'm a Yankee fan. I know, they lost. I watched. I watch almost every game, barring acts of God and, you know, being on an airplane when games are on and stuff. People tell me all the time that it's easy to be a Yankee fan. Oh, really? Because every time I tell someone that I am I get people telling me that I'm an asshole for liking them? Because every time I root for them in a public place I feel like I might get punched? How about the argument that the Yankees "buy championships"? Oh, really? Then why haven't we won the World Series since 2000? (Barring the fact that I moved away in 2000, that is.) We've got the payroll, right? Certainly we could "buy" this championship, according to that logic, right? Or maybe the Yankees pitching staff wasn't good enough to take them as far as they went and the only reason they survived was because of impressive defensive playing, errors on the parts of other teams, and the fact that I was physically in New York for games 1 and 2.
What? I have superstitions. Deal.
I like that team and have liked them since I was a kid. I knew the pitching staff was weak. I knew their chances of getting to and winning the World Series were slim. But you know what? If they had won, and I'd said anything, anything in a gloating fashion, every single person who hates the Yankees just because they're the Yankees would've kicked my ass. The only time I gloat is to Met fans, but what are you gonna do? It's New York, you break balls. It's a thing.
People go on and on about the bandwagoneer Yankees fans. I think the bandwagon belongs to the haters.
That said, even though two teams I don't like are in the World Series, I'm going to watch every game. Because that's what I really love, you fair-weather motherfuckers. The game.
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