Dr Wogga
10-18-2003, 01:17 AM
My Dad took his 4 sons to a doubleheader (they used to play those years ago - even scheduled them!). Taking the Staten Island ferry (yes, THAT Staten Island ferry), then the subways through the heart of Manhattan and on up to the Bronx with its tenement buldings and inner city squalor, the smells of beer, cigars, and greasy Sabrett hotdogs, the crush of people..........and then you enter......walk up the ramps - the never ending ramps if you're a little guy of 7 - and then you step out of the underbelly of the smelly concrete stadium and see the most gorgeous brilliant green baseball field. Right out of a god-dammed fairy tale. At that moment you're hooked. There are no other teams. None! OOver the years it never mattered if Steinbrenner is a scumbag, if Billy Martin was a sleazy drunk, if Reggie was an a-hole, if Babe and the Mick were such drunken louts that if they ever took care of their bodies they would've had records that players would be chasing forever. Don't matter. At that moment, the awe of the field set in among the scuzzy neighborhood that surrounds it - kinda like taking the ole tornado ride into Oz. You never forget those days. My Dad, all of 82 yrs old now, was just doing with his boys what his Dad had done with his. Took them to a ballgame. Took them to see the Yankees. The Yankees of Babe, Lou, Joe D, Mick, Roger, Yogi, Elston. Its just a tradition in my family and we don't apologize. We love our Yankees and the memories of these trips to the Stadium are even more extra special now, in that 2 of my brothers are no longer with us.
There ain't nothing better than playing in all these pressurized playoff and WS games. Eat your heart Chicago and Boston - you're just jealous! All you hear about is how much money George has spent - but it takes character as much as high-priced talent to win this many big games. I can understand why so many people hate the Yankees. But I maintain being hated is just as good as being loved - it creates interest. These playoffs, with 2 game 7s and a game 5 already, are going to end up being one of the highest rated baseball post seasons in history. I betcha Fox doesn't think the Yankees are bad for baseball.
Stop whining people. Beat the Bombers. That's all you have to do. The Angels, Arizona, and Cleveland have done it since '97. Love 'em or hate 'em - you can't stop talking about them. Face it. They are the greatest and most successful sports franchise in history. Great comments Aaron Boone made after being interviewed 18 zillion times after his walk-off homer: One he mentioned Jeter kept telling him "if we can just hang in there, the ghosts will take over" and maybe the best one of all "this is so unreal its stupid" How can you not love that? Try and tell me the guys that are in the Yankee clubhouse winning the pennant for the 1st time don't believe there is magic right there in the Bronx. Why? I don't honestly know. Babe Ruth's curse, his ghost, the other ghosts of previous BB legends? I don't think anybody can say, but how, HOW, HOW can one team continue to be so clutch, win so many big games, always seem to pull victories out of the jaws of defeat? While other teams just continue to find a way to lose? You tell me. Its happened with hundreds of different Yankee players, different rosters, over the last 75-80 years. The players change. The winning doesn't. Despite King a-hole Steinbrenner. Despite some of the bums who have worn pinstripes. Despite everything, they win.
Eat your heart out the rest of the world. We're in the series again Pop. God bless our Yankees Pop. We bleed pinstripes and we don't apologize. Beat us or watch us celebrate. Right Boston????
There ain't nothing better than playing in all these pressurized playoff and WS games. Eat your heart Chicago and Boston - you're just jealous! All you hear about is how much money George has spent - but it takes character as much as high-priced talent to win this many big games. I can understand why so many people hate the Yankees. But I maintain being hated is just as good as being loved - it creates interest. These playoffs, with 2 game 7s and a game 5 already, are going to end up being one of the highest rated baseball post seasons in history. I betcha Fox doesn't think the Yankees are bad for baseball.
Stop whining people. Beat the Bombers. That's all you have to do. The Angels, Arizona, and Cleveland have done it since '97. Love 'em or hate 'em - you can't stop talking about them. Face it. They are the greatest and most successful sports franchise in history. Great comments Aaron Boone made after being interviewed 18 zillion times after his walk-off homer: One he mentioned Jeter kept telling him "if we can just hang in there, the ghosts will take over" and maybe the best one of all "this is so unreal its stupid" How can you not love that? Try and tell me the guys that are in the Yankee clubhouse winning the pennant for the 1st time don't believe there is magic right there in the Bronx. Why? I don't honestly know. Babe Ruth's curse, his ghost, the other ghosts of previous BB legends? I don't think anybody can say, but how, HOW, HOW can one team continue to be so clutch, win so many big games, always seem to pull victories out of the jaws of defeat? While other teams just continue to find a way to lose? You tell me. Its happened with hundreds of different Yankee players, different rosters, over the last 75-80 years. The players change. The winning doesn't. Despite King a-hole Steinbrenner. Despite some of the bums who have worn pinstripes. Despite everything, they win.
Eat your heart out the rest of the world. We're in the series again Pop. God bless our Yankees Pop. We bleed pinstripes and we don't apologize. Beat us or watch us celebrate. Right Boston????