October 21, 2004

I Watched the Yankees Lose, and I Liked It

Come on, honestly. The winningest and most arrogant sports franchise of all time suffering the single most humbling defeat in the history of sports. How can you not love that?

Besides, the Yankees didn't have anyone on my Yahoo fantasy team, which was carried to the championship by David Ortiz and Mark Bellhorn. I'm pretty sure that's how the curse was broken, in fact.

The Times has a lot of good coverage, including Selena Roberts' breakdown of why the Yankees' attempts to conquer the world with high-priced mercenaries have always doomed to failure.

Most interesting to me is how frustrated Jeter sounds, in that piece and elsewhere, with how the team has been run for the last few years.. Since 2000 the Yankees have tried to reclaim their throne by assembling a new set of million dollar robots every year, hoping they will combine to form an invincible Voltron. But none of the Yankee teams that made up their 90s dynasty were built this way, the backbone of all those teams were guys like Jeter, Bernie, Mariano.. basically homegrown players who became stars by finding a role to play in their Yankee team.. right now those guys must feel like they are the only ones who remember that.

But really, this season was over for the Yankees as soon they began it by screwing Andy Pettite. The lesson is clear: They started the year by dissing their most ardent christian, and ended the year getting schooled by Jesus himself.

Posted by jsmooth995 at October 21, 2004 12:44 PM | TrackBack
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Ahhhh what a satisfying game to watch Jesus finally pulls through, and a great series all round. I just hope the astros make it through in the nlcs.

Posted by: cale at October 21, 2004 01:26 PM

Hey 40 trips to the world series and something like this is bound to happen. Thats o.k they'll come back next year and ride on all you player hating bustas.

Posted by: Gerson at October 21, 2004 01:47 PM

Jay,

So you finally got off the fence you, you flip-flopper. To hell with you all. I'm a Yankees fan and a Knicks fan and proud of it. I'm not even gonna jump on the Giants/Jets bandwagons. They don't even play in New York so screw them.

2005 Season: The Empire Strikes Back, busters

Posted by: METALFACE at October 21, 2004 04:00 PM

Goodbye Tankees, yall overpaid no-heart schmucks! Muhuhuhahaha. And welcome back to sense, Jay!

Posted by: Jeff at October 21, 2004 04:39 PM

Jeff,

Aren't you on the Left Coast anyway. LOL You and O need to get out of here with that.

Posted by: METALFACE at October 21, 2004 05:11 PM

All you Boston bandwagoners need to kill yourselves. That was the hardest thing I've ever had to watch in sports in my life. I'm going to crawl into a whole until April. God, please let STL or Houston sweep those bastards...

Posted by: Ahsmi at October 21, 2004 06:09 PM

That last line was pure gold, Jay. It's too bad Pettite got hurt and didn't have a stellar year in Houston along w/ Clemens. Stein most certainly dissed him, but do you think it was a diss based on medical advice? I think they knew his elbow was blown/going to be blown. You know it just kills Jeter to see Sheffield swinging for the fences every at bat, or A-Fraud pulling cheap moves like the one at 1st base. It's a lot harder to root for this 'team' than the home-grown 90's teams, that's for sure.

Posted by: jesse at October 21, 2004 06:22 PM

speaking of Jesus, i recently heard some comedian say something about how atheletes and artists always thank God when they win stuff but never blame God when they lose...actually i think it was Howard Stern...a pretty funny bit, it was

Posted by: Veronica at October 21, 2004 08:18 PM

so yeah finally the yankees are defeated and embarrased in the same day. that was the sweetest win ever for the red sox. im not even from boston but im glad thy whooped the yankees thy deserved it. for luring all of our stud los angeles dodgers players overthere with their mountains of money n crap. fuck the yankees. dodgers are the best los angeles is where star players are made and unfortunately they are also sold and traded. finally we have a good general manager. can u imagin what a bad ass team the dodgers could have if we didnt sell or trade our studs at every opportunity. imagine this team: eric karros at first, alex cora at second, izturis at short, adrian beltre at third, catching paul lo duca, in the outfield we could have finley,sheffield,mondesi,green,roberts. wed have guys like lima,brown,mota,perez,gagne in the bullpen we'd kick ass. and those arent even all the players. but im just too lazy to write them all out. and why should i thy might get traded next year. oh well i can live with it i guess. at least im a true Los Angeles Dodger fan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jose at October 21, 2004 10:12 PM

After a full day hearing about the Sox finally beating the Yankees in a postseason game, i find it quite funny that all I saw on the trains and in stores were people with Yankee gear on.... I find it also kinda funny that people claim that the Yankees fans (and players) are an arrogant bunch, when it seems the whole baseball world hates a team for simply doing what all the teams what to do which is win the World Series.

Glad all the haters have had their moments... I hope that Boston does indeed win it all... So we dont have to hear them whine anymore about it.

Next year it will be the Chicago Cubs fans bitchin and moaning all alone..

Yankees Rule....

Posted by: Belve at October 22, 2004 10:32 AM

Now what do we have to look forward to; the Giants or jets? Please, those teams play in New Jersey.
Did someone say the Knicks? brother please!

Posted by: Dan at October 24, 2004 04:09 PM

I'm pretty sure there is a God... granted grace to the Red Sox to put the screws to the Yankees the way they did!... making baseball history and going on to win a World Series!! Gave Boston their greatest win and probably the worst loss for the Yankees!!! PRETTY SURE THERE IS A GOD... TALK ABOUT AN ANSWERED PRAYER FOR THE TRIED AND TRUE GENERATIONS OF RED SOX FANS!!! Yeah, we'll stop whining for a while! :)

Thank you, God, for this year in baseball that us Red Sox fans (and players) will never forget!!! I hope none of us ever forgets who Daddy really is! (God, of course).

Posted by: Jes at October 31, 2004 04:34 AM

Tired of hearing the Red Sox fans whine? Why would you ever get tired of that? No, you're a cry baby liar. The truth hurts. So, you lie in a transparent attempt to hide your anguish. Anguish? Yes. The Yankees have just procured for themselves the biggest choke in the history of sports. And who handed it to them? The hated Red Sox who in one brilliant stroke handed the Yankees the yoke the Sox have worn all these years. The Yankees are now the super choke team of sports. The stain of this super choke gracing the pages of sports records for the next 100 years (until another team as pathetic as the exposed Yankees manage to blow a world series after being up 3 games and claim the super choke title).

Arrogant? Forget that. Bullies? Yes. Why? Because as all true pantywaist sissy girls you can dish it out but can't take it. The bull shit started right after the Yankees and all their fans had too eat the same shit they love to dish out (oh no!) Cry baby statements littered the media in NY from fans and sports writers.

The biggest compliment? When the NY papers said see you in 2090. My lawyer in Boston held that up in his office when I brought the paper to Boston and we all cheered. Why? Because that cry baby sour grapes comment was a great compliment coming from the enemy.

The more you try to cover up the fact that whatever you do from now on, even if the Sox hadn't swept the mightiest team (?) in the world series, the more you highlight the devastating reality that the Yankees go into the record books as the biggest losers off ALL time. God forbid, you should continue to be as honest as the Yankee players were while they were in total shock and candidly spoke their minds. How CRUSHED they all sounded. And all at the hands of the hated red Sox.

The icing on the cake? The Yankees are now Jeter and the Cheater.

PS Yankees finally do really suck. Live with it.

Posted by: ckdexterhaven at November 6, 2004 10:26 AM

Oh, yeah one last thing.

This we can all agree on, the Yankess do rule.

They now rule without exception as the greatest choke artist losers in the entire history of professional sports.

Have a nice day.

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