tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5974487880746995076.post8447252447891898777..comments2024-02-24T03:37:22.662-05:00Comments on Seth Curry Saves Duke!: A Curious Case of the DropsiesSPRhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03786996249022843460noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5974487880746995076.post-16706469022645444482009-06-15T16:38:27.424-04:002009-06-15T16:38:27.424-04:00A) Agreed.
B) Me: The Yankee fan can not see th...A) Agreed.<br /><br />B) Me: The Yankee fan can not see the difference between winning and not losing.<br />Yankee Fan: I can not see the difference between winning and not losing. <br /><br />C) You should have been to the inter-league game I was at in July of 2000. Roger... Clemens? I think it was? took the pill for the lovable Yanks. If I'm not mistaken, I think Piazza was still with the Mets, then. Anyway, a truly fun little cross-town game! (I'm sorry the Mets fans yelled near you. Did any of them throw a baseball at your head at lethal velocity?)<br /><br />D) You know A-Rod or Jeter dropping it would be an entirely different event than Luis Castillo dropping it.<br /><br />E) Me: "this gleeful neener-neenery, jumping on the bed."<br />Yankee Fan: "my whole being hummed with glee. I pointed at his face on the tv and said 'you dumb bastard!' Then I jumped on my bed again."<br /><br />F) We're actually on the same page on most of these!Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04115044539074196270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5974487880746995076.post-75244955574952831082009-06-15T16:14:43.035-04:002009-06-15T16:14:43.035-04:00Couple things...
a) We have no "aura" a...Couple things...<br /><br />a) We have no "aura" anymore, and that won't change until we win a World Series. Our reputation with the current cast is defined by flaming out in the playoffs.<br /><br />b) There's no difference between winning and not losing, and baseball is a game that continually proves the point. You take the wins when you can get them, because eventually you'll be on the other side.<br /><br />c) Before inter-league play, I might have felt compassion for the Mets, but no longer. The night in 2007 when I left an inter-league game at Shea Stadium with thousands of people streaming down the concourses, aggressively chanting "Yankees Suck!" in unison was the day I stopped thinking of the Mets as the fun little cross-town National League team.<br /><br />d) If that had happened to A-Rod or Jeter, my roommate would have been laughing in my face.<br /><br />e) I feel no guilt for jumping on the bed. Pure excitement, it wasn't yet to the gloating stage at that point.<br /><br />f) I will take every chance I can get to stick it to Mets or Red Sox fans, and I expect the same in return. "To hate like this is to be happy forever..."SPRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03786996249022843460noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5974487880746995076.post-69377408286297618442009-06-15T13:17:03.468-04:002009-06-15T13:17:03.468-04:00That was the epitome of the Mets - not the wind-bl...That was the epitome of the Mets - not the wind-blown drop that was the error, but the weak, slow flop of a throw to second that said, "I am not a champion." It's actually the epitome of a lot of players opposing the Yankees. The Yankees call it their "aura."<br /><br />But therein lies another epitome on display Friday night, the epitome of the Yankees - the inability to differentiate winning from not losing; the hostility that reveals the inability to feel compassion; this gleeful neener-neenery, jumping on the bed. <br /><br />I hope you keep these roommates. They seem like good people.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04115044539074196270noreply@blogger.com