But hey, I can play along.
So Steinbrenner gets mentioned? Now, do you REALLY want to get into the owners of my team when yours is Mr. Hanoi Jane?
As big a dick Steinbrenner is, at least he ain’t married to a traitor whose actions led to our troops being killed.
Now, we are not doing so hot, yes. As much as I would like to make a glib comment about how we are simply giving everyone the chance theyt didn’t have when we were going 125-50 with the best team in baseball and possible all professional sporting history, fact is:
We are dealing with major injuries here. The only starter who has been healthy this year is Pettite. Roger is on the DL now. Cone had problems earlier in the year. Our long-relief specialist has had to start a ton of games and we have had peopel I don’t even know starting as well.
In spite of this, we are contending for the division, and common sense says we will prevail here, at least in the AL East. Boston is Pedro and pray (and we beat the Sox the last two times we faced him), the Jays are exciting, but a year away. Watch them wilt in the heat of a long summer - mark my words.
And you know that none of you would want to see us in your path when the playoffs begin. We seem to be able to rise to that challenge - need I go into our recent post-seasons? No, I think you are all too aware of them.
It’s a long season, and typical of perrenial also-rans, you are cheering about things before the all star break even.
And the neat thing is that even if the Yankees never won a World Series, all of your teams would have to win every WS from now until in the middle of the 2020’s to catch us, and we would have to go 0-162 for like ten years straight to get our record at .500 for all-time.
When we win the East again, I will revive this thread. Mark my words…
And I see everyone is quick to tear the Yanks down (being perenial leaders will attract you people), but nobody DARE try and lift their teams up to our level.
Only because it can’t be done, schmucks.
Have a nice rest of season, kiddies…
Yer putz,
Satan :wally
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