Taliesin

You've lost the right to criticize Yankee fans as ungrateful/fickle/etc. Also from the guy who said he was giving his season tickets away because he refuses to watch a team finish in 4th place. 2 days ago I believe. I'll take em there skipper (fickle and a hypocrite and really inconsistent with your logic so to speak) and sell them on EBAY to suckers like you with a sense of entitlement waiting for the second incarnation of Manny. MILE WIDE INCH DEEP. I watched my team finish in 4th place and worse for years. I didn't pout or stomp my feet. Just tossed a lot of remote controls. And dealt with it. Right? Rumplestilkskin

Even more important we were all spared the post game pseudo Abelard soliloquy from the rats who scatter when their ship is sinking. I dread that more than a loss. Crickets...crickets.

I will not troll. I will not troll. I will not troll I also probably will not contribute very much to talksox. I am a clown.

I am an idiot. You are right. - post moderated

Ha! I'll keep that in mind chief.

I love it when I'm wrong. I still say he's an effete.

Like I said...we whine. I'm a Boston fan and not above it.

Nuh uh...we're Boston fans and we whine. About everything. All the time. Football team that sucked for centuries goes 18-1. Wins three SB's. Violins. Lamenting. Baseball team that sucked for centuries wins 2 World Series....in our lifetimes. What will we do about our 2nd baseman. Sob. Basketball team that sucked for at least my daughter's lifetime. Gets into the finals. Little girl whining. Bunch of little kids who don't know history. Or how to wait. Instant gratification generation. BTW. Koufax was the greatest pitcher of all time. And, it's kind of close, but not very.

Forgive me if this has been posted here before and I don't have VORP or WARP to back it up because well who gives a s*** really except the Star Trek fans and uber geeks but the last stance is prescient. And I'm going into the wayback machine where I just like to watch people play baseball. I know that's nuts.

Clearly young chippies floating out the Bonds/Sosa combo. I'd prefer we move to Trenton and call ourselves the New Yankees. Why not McGwire. How about we reincarnate Cobb. Got Clemens? I'd rather finish in last place behind the O's thank you very much. f*** bonds. f*** his ilk. That's classic Stein and I suffered through the Bichette years w/ this team, but not the selling of the soul. s***, we are having fun. I called out the really really bad move on Joba to the rotation. Classic closer and they are ruining him. We'll be fine and if not. Eh. Not worth that ********. He is anathema and a scourge. A totem token of all that was wrong w/ the game. We don't need that karma because he can hit a few dingers. No thank you. Not worth the decades of drama.

I see Drew has another injury to his vagina. Is that wrong. Will I be called out as a Nixon apologist? Do I need to recite reams of stats to defend my position that the man is an effete? Worthless and an enigma? Borderline major league player when we could have signed Catalanotto for hundreds of millions less. Just saying. Sticking w/ the conspiracy theory of Dice K.

Well, I for one am taken aback by that analysis. It was astute while being thought provoking. I'm sorry but I really am enjoying this time in our history. Whining Yankee fans are my favorite. Pardon the interruption and am no "stat man" by any stretch of the imagination. But, Melky has had 4 years of major league experience and while still young doesn't impress me as a superstar in the making based on his career numbers that I just looked at to pass the time. Also, let's look at the only season that really matters. Small sample size because well the MFY's don't stay in very long these days, but there is a trend 6 games. 19 ABs. 2 R. 3 H. .158 BA. .158 OBP .316 Slg Jacoby 11 games. 25 ABs. 8 R. 9 H. .360 BA. .429 OBP .520 Slg. For those of you (me) that just watch the games as well and believe in intangibles beyond stats. Some got it...some not so much. And the proof as they say is in the pudding and I still don't know what in the hell that saying means. I also didn't jump to conclusions about Shane Spencer. Anyone...anyone.

More fun w/ Jacko I'm going w/ hubris. Lot's of smashing and mashing words abound. Blowing loads and the like. Also, hence is a favorite.

And tonight is why this game is the greatest ever and I have no time for anyone who thinks differently. The movie Black Irish summed it up: Baseball is exactly like life. Most of the time nothing happens. But then, something does and you get all of the glory or all of the s***.

Obviously not or he wouldn't have gotten the no-no. Are you new? (Realizing she needs therapy)

Who has the tome of MJ and his dissection of how mediocre Lester will be vs. the phenom Phil. I'm not that interested to look..but it's there. With great luck, I'm facing him this week in our fantasy league. Phil he has. Lester I have. Great story. Improbable really. (Not the fact MJ is a bit of a boob...the great story about Lester)

And the other 4 would be? How the mighty have fallen. Where's Whitey Ford when you need him.

Jackson is notoriously wrong w/ his predictions. If he picked a stock to tank, I'd buy into that company immediately. I only wish I'd saved the reams of blather over the years, just to be able to quote them back. It's actually kind of endearing in an annoying way. A constant if you will. Subtle jabs that seem like they are being complimentary and are always biased w/ a twist. A mea culpa w/ a knife in your back. Conciliatory while being condescending and not quite able to pull it off. Like as much as I trust my neighbor who comes in southern drawl sheep's clothing and offers help when I know the self-serving motivation.

I'm guessing JB would pay up if he owed money. MJ, I know people in Southie. We can find you.

At least the eloquence is consistent.

I see that I've been missing The Algonquin Round Table. Since when? Since they invented time. Most baseball fans does not translate to the long time die hards of this baseball team. We aren't "most baseball fans" The problem is that I wouldn't want to go to war with you or your ilk. Wishy and the washy. You wouldn't understand to quote your last sentence. And no. You can not have secondary teams if you have any conviction about anything of value. Of sense of self and purpose.