If there is anything sillier than female baseball fans, I haven’t seen it. [sub]Criticizing their PANTS…? Good grief…[/sub]
They are the A’s, because otherwise, it would be an incomplete similie.
Other teams are often abbreviated similarly- the Orioles and Mariners being the two I can think of. Why those three teams but no others.
Oh, and the Yankees are going down in 4, 3 if I’m lucky, as I have tix for that game.
One of my favorite pastimes. In past years, the Yankees have been dominant, obviously. I will grant this. This year? Riding their reputation and phenomenally bad division to a fortunate playoff berth and an inexplicable status as the unofficial AL favorites.
I can’t wait until this time next week, when Yankees fans can no longer dismiss the bashing as “jealousy,” because those morons in the pinstripes will be watching the AL Championship Series with the rest of the groundlings.
A’s in five. Yankees win tonight, lose to Zito in game three, pull out a squeaker against Corey Lidle in game four, and finally, finally, go to their much deserved defeat against Mulder in game five.
- Frank
Howyadoin,
There is no greater evidence of the effect of the terrorist attacks on America than this:
Fenway Park, Boston MA, September 15[sup]th[/sup], 2001, Red Sox vs. Tigers… During the 7[sup]th[/sup] inning stretch, the PA system played …
New York, New York (Sinatra)
I mean, I’m as sympathetic as the next guy, and it was a classy thing to do, but that sure felt surreal. I believe they did this for the remainder of the season.
BTW, as far as the Yankee fans undying loyalty, I’m reminded of John Rocker’s comment after the Braves had eliminated the Mets in the NLCS, something to the effect of “The Mets fans can go home now and put on their Yankees gear”. 
-Rav
The Yankees are a better team than they’re being given credit for. They went 95-65, which is a hell of a good year, and their team is very top-heavy, with a strong lineup of starters and frontline pitchers and relatively weak bench players and lower-end pitchers. Top-heavy teams tend to do better in playoff series than they do in the regular season.
But the A’s are up a game now. Why wasn’t Shane Spencer playing against the lefty? The Yankees COULD win, but they’re going to have to beat a better team three times in four games to do it.
Boy, is it Yankee bashing season already? Damn, forgot to mark the calender and pull all the old bashes out of mothballs.
As a Yankee fan, I feel I have to respond to some of the things said here, in no particular order.
They lost the first game of the series. Big deal. Yankee bashers counted them out in 1996 after losing games one and two to the Braves, and the Yanks came back.
The bashers counted them out when the Yanks were down two games to one agains Cleveland in 1998, and the Yanks came back.
The bashers counted them out when the Yanks lost 16 out of 19 going into last post season, and the Yanks rebounded.
This is not the first time the Yankees have faced a little challenge on their way to winning the World Series.
You poor, poor Braves fans. It must drive you crazy to see a team that gets to the playoffs and actually wins.
They won 95 games, which won their division, which is more than any National League club won. While its not as much as Oakland or Seattle, its hardly riding their reputation. The division had a race until Boston did their collapse, which the Yankees had a big hand in. Their status as favorites comes about from the simple fact that they are three time defending champions. They earned that status from past results.
Two points on this one. First, those would be Met fans, who are the whiniest babys in the world. Second, do you really want use John Rocker to back up any arguement you have?
See you all next season, when the Yankees will be defending yet another World Championship, with their new first baseman, Jason Giambi.
In the end, we’re rooting for laundry…
Go, guys in gray with green and gold trim!!
-Rav
Hmmmmmmmmmmm . . . Braves, Yankees.
Only one of these teams has won a game in the 2001 post season. Which team was it ?
Seriously blur, even if the Stankees should slip past a tough A’s team, they will then run into a buzzsaw know as the Mariners. Face it buddy, the dynasty is done. The Cranks are going down. So sorry.
ok… here we go… game 2, bottom of the ninth… Yank’s down by two…
go A’s go!
woo-hoo!
2 game lead for the A’s…
I smell… DOOM!
A’s win, A’ win [sub]game 2[/sub]
One more to go. Jason I. made it an interesting ninth inning, but I figure he just did that to give all Yankee fanatics some hope before closing the door.
<bang, bang, bangbangbang>
LET’S GO, OAKLAND!
(My Giants didn’t make the playoffs, but I remain loyal to the Bay. Also, the Yankees are, you know, evil.)
I was really crushed to find out Paul McCartney is a Yankees fan…he seems so much more CLASSY than that, eh?
We are so silly!
We have so much fun!
We like to watch the game
And look at Derek Jeter’s butt.
We can talk stats.
We can talk strategy.
We can talk history.
We can talk about anything that you boys can.
But what is more fun,
On an internet message board:
To talk about batting-average-with-men-in-scoring-position,
Or to talk about pants?
You may think us silly.
And perhaps we are.
But we have more fun,
Than patronizing pedants like you.
Now Deb, you know that’s not true.
The Yankees are the spawn of Satan. 
But this year they will be banished back to the netherworld!! Go A’s!!(or anybody else who plays the Yanks)
On a side not: As a Dodger fan, I can tell you that money does not ensure excellence on the field.
As a native Cincinnatian, I just gotta say, fuck em both.
And Cleveland too.
I thought that was going to be the Yankee fans when their team finally gets eliminated early for a change. :rolleyes:
No. Never. I refuse to admit it. Even down 2-0, the Yankees will come back. [optimism]Come on, its October, the Yankees win on October, right? [/optimism]
I promise you, I will not whine if they lose. I’ll hold my head up high, and admit, which ever team was lucky enough to beat them, certainly did so because of an anti-Yankee bias on the umpires part. And come on, its only a 5 game series, if it were a 7 game series, the Yankees would have won the first two games. Yeah, thats it.
As a native Daytonian, currently living in north Cinci (see Mason)… the Reds can kiss my ass, right along with their stinky Bungles. The Indians, even when they were losing a lot, had more class than the Reds, and so did the city. Cincinnati needs to learn to pull its head out of its ass.