Yanks in 4.
As a Cardinal fan, it pains me to say this . . .
GO METS!
It’d just be nice to see any team take the Championship away from the Yankees. Maybe all the better that it’d be the cross-town rivals.
Ratings will slide into oblivion as no one outside of NY will bother watching (in fact, a great many would be viewers will go out of their way not to watch out of sheer hatred for NY teams) and the games fail to even make it into primetime on the west coast.
Networks will scramble like hell to get away from having to air the games - thus disrupting their schedules - this close to sweeps. ((And with any luck, someone somewhere in baseball will realize that grevious errors have been made, and move for complete overhaul/reform… well, probably not that.)) And soon, the World Series will be relegated to second rate local cable networks.
As far as the winner - who cares. See you next spring.
-amarinth
I’m betting the rest of the US votes to let Pakistan and India practice-nuke the Shitty City so we never to hear about them and their damn baseball teams any more. I’d galdly have pushed the button before to rid the world of cabbie jokes and local talk jockies Howie, Rush, and Don, but now…
I now summon my powers as Thread Killer. Whatever post I respond to will see its debate wither and die. Usually my response is the last there ever is. This is how I won Zuma’s contest, and why I can’t start posts of my own. I summon my power to stop the public drooling of the Nude Dorkers. This thread is now finished. Thread Killer has spoken!
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Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!
No fucking way, don Jaime. Go Mets!
Bri
There have been six series in the post-season so far. At this point, every single team I have wanted to win has lost. So, if any of you are beting heavily on this series, tell me so I can root for the other team. I only require a 5% take.
You’re just jealous you big party pooper 
Let’s go Yankees clap, clap, clap clap clap
Let’s go Yankees clap, clap, clap clap clap
don, don, don…
Why don’t you blow me. It’ll give you a purpose in your life, and from that post, it seems you sorely need one.
:wally
Yer pal,
Satan
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I was so happy to see the Yankees win last night because it give the Mets chance to beat them. In 6.
>>>>As a Cardinal fan, it pains me to say this . . .
GO METS! <<<<<<
Wow! Even Crunchyfrog has seen the light!
What really irks me is how the NewYork media jumped right on the METS bandwagon when it looked like the Yankmes might not make it to the series.They clinched last night and the media jumped right back on the Yankmes bandwagon.How fickle can you get?
Mets in 7!
At least two Met wins will come in extra innings.
I wouldn’t go that far. Come next season, I’ll be rooting for no one but the Cards again. This is a matter of the lesser of two evils, and I can’t bear any ill-will to a team that simply outplayed the Cardinals. If there had been some bad umpiring or a cheap play by a Mets player (taking out the second baseman in a slide or something) I’d be against the Mets with a vengence.
As it stands, though, they just outplayed my team fair and square. More power to them. I hope to see the Yankees go down.
And BTW, how about the Mets pitchers coming through when they need to? Bobby Jones pitched a 1 hit shutout vs the Giants, and then Hampton pitching a 3 hit shutout against the Cards, both to win the series.
does the happy little “Yankees Fan for LIFE” dance
Let’s goooooooo threepeat!
I have to give credit to the Mets. They are an awesome team and truly deserve to be in the World Series. But they pale in comparison to the awe-inspiring grandeur of the Yankees.
LONG LIVE THE YANKEES!
I can now devote my time to hockey. Plan to go to a minor league game, also gotta get tickets to the Staples center to see the Kings, haven’t been there yet. This will be much better than a boring World Series. Especially with Joe Morgan, who irrates me no end, doing color, I need to go do a hockey game.
I have to give the Yankees their due. They beat the M’s and deserved to, as they simply played better. (Of course, an extra $40 million in payroll will do that for you. No, don’t bring that up, let’s keep it civil and on point.)
amarith said:
Without trying to sound unduly bitter, frankly I will be one of those non-New Yorkers who will avoid the World Series like the plague because of spite. I have nothing against the city (I actually liked the limited time I spent there), the vast majority of the players on the team (they’re mostly genuinely likeable people) or even their fans (who aren’t really any different then the rest of us).
I do, however, loathe the already sickening media spectacle unfolding, making it appear as though New York is embarking on a frenzy of self-congratulory orgasmic happy-happy-joy-joy dances. I am sick up to my eyeballs of seeing the same damned cities in the World Series year after year. I despise the Yankees as a unit and as an enemy to my beloved M’s. I can’t root for the Mets either, as they are likely to steal A-Rod in the offsason.
Even though I am a die hard baseball fan, I just can’t support this World Series. Is it too late to have a strike/lockout cancel the whole damned thing?
Y’all are forgetting something:
There are native New Yorkers all over the place, and there even people who were not born there have fathers who were - and they all passed down either a love or hate for the Yankees.
This will be one of the most watched World Series events ever, mark my words.
I don’t know who will win (calling a short series is always a crap shoot), but it’ll be a hell of a ride and I’m rooting like crazy for my Yanks!
Yer pal,
Satan
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Yankees - Mets
Just like asking if I’d rather vomit or have diarrhea constantly for the next 10 consecutive days.
Fuck no, I won’t be tuning in, I’ll be rooting for the finale of Fail Safe to come to life.
Money talks and bullshit walks, major league baseball is a disgrace.
Everybody hates a winner.
I grew up 5 blocks up on the Grand Concourse. I have Dave Rhigetti’s, Lou Pinella’s, Guidry’s, River’s, White’s and Nettle’s autograph on a baseball cap. Of course, this was back in the days that the players would stop and give you an autograph if you came early and hung out at the player’s entrance.
I went through the lean times. Yankee lean time is fractional compared to all others, but still, the early '80’s was hard. I come by my Yankee love honestly.
I don’t hate the Mets. If they win the only thing that would really bother me will be the gloating.
New York is the greatest fucking city in the world. Now if we can only convince the Knicks of this!
Giuliani likes the Yankees. Does this mean Hilary is automatically a Mets fan?
You’re a CUBS fan…no wonder you hate baseball! That explains everything! When was the last time they went to the series?? My advice to you is to start watching the WhiteSox…LOL.
What, what, what? What is this? This thread lives?!? Must invoke the Awesome Curse next time.
And you ain’t just whistlin’ Dixie, bubbela. My whole home state doesn’t have a major league nothing. We don’t even get to lose in style. Listening to every nosepicker in Eunuchatten yar about how two baseball teams aren’t enough for the City that Never Thinks, we want the Dodgers back too, can sure turn your stomach. Instead of getting a subway series, NYC should be stripped of a baseball, a football, and a hockey team. And yes, I’ll take your good team and leave you with the dregs. You can have them damn Yankees. Nobody’s taken Steinbrenner; you’re stuck with him.
Yeah? Fuck 'em. The glory of the Big Apple is done. We don’t need special reasons to hate New York teams. The town itself is reason enough. Time to move on. And I’m assuming you want the Bronx Blowjob. Spread 'em while I fetch the plunger. “Putz” the Thread Killer, will ya…!
Ooh, almost forgot, by the Dread Power of the '94 Baseball Strike, I curse the New York Subway Series and all who follow her, and I send this thread to oblivion!
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THREAD KILLER HAS SPOKEN! AH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA!