On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:10:40 GMT, Jonathan Ball
> wrote:

>swamp wrote:
>> On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 04:20:00 GMT, Jonathan Ball
>> > wrote:
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>>>swamp wrote:
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>>>>Go Sox!
>>>
>>>Too late. They just lost on an 11th inning home run.
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>> Yep. Great, we've got the store-bought ^&&^% Marlins and the
>> Steinbrenner-bought &*&%% Yankees in the Series. Too bad they can't
>> both lose.
>
>I have a friend from my graduate school days at UCLA
>who, when the USC-Notre Dame game comes around, says
>that he roots for injuries.

I know lots of UCLA grads who feel the same way. Never quite
understood them. Dad went to SC and took me to games as a kid, so
naturally they're my team. Mom went to Berkeley and I went to UCI, so
I root for UCLA and Cal unless they're playing SC. My second favorite
team is whoever's playing Notre Dame. And I like a good hit as much as
anyone, but never like to see serious injuries. Hell, they're just
kids playin' ball...

>As I said before, it's the series only New Yorkers and
>Miamians wanted to see.

They'll get great ratings on the East coast. Our side, they'll be
lucky to outdraw the History channel.

>Although a big fan of baseball, I don't follow the
>business of the sport enough to know much about how
>teams are put together, although the Yankees' method is
>well known: Steinbrenner opens his checkbook. I know
>that was true of the previous Florida team to reach the
>Series, but I read some columnist in the L.A. Times
>writing that this Florida team was built more in the
>good old fashioned way: player development and
>"normal" trades, rather than big-bucks free agent signings.

More in the old-fashioned way this time than Huizenga's Marlins, yes,
but Pudge was bought. I still have problems rooting for them.

>As I also said before, I'd root for the national team
>from a State That Sponsors Terrorism against the
>Yankees, I hate 'em so much. Same goes for the Raiders
>in football, and the same used to go for the Flyers in
>hockey. There's never been an "alien" basketball team
>I hated that much.

You didn't hate the Celtics? That smug, cigar-faced, racist Auerbach,
elbow-artist McHale, and whiner of Ainge?

I don't know any empirical method of quantifying hate, but I'll match
my hatred for the Yankees w/ yours any day. It started when Reggie
stuck his butt out to deflect the double play throw in the '77 World
Series, and has grown ever since. Hate 'em more than Notre Dame, the
Giants, Celtics, and Cowboys combined.

--swamp