# The Entire Population of Arizona is Hereby Invited to Collectively Lick My Balls **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 5, 2001, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548 "2001-11-05T04:43:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Flymaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c4cdca/32.png) [@Flymaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flymaster)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/21 "2001-11-05T05:31:38Z")
Beautiful, isn’t it? I’ll have you know that I was wearing my Yankees Suck tshirt throughout the game. ---
**Author:** ![malkavia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malkavia/32/5621_2.png) [@malkavia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malkavia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/22 "2001-11-05T06:04:07Z")
And in the immortal words of my younger sister during last nights game… “Who’s your fuckin’ daddy now!!!” While game 7 was awesome… You Yank fans shouldn’t be sad about losing the series. You should be mortified by the embarrassing defeat on Saturday though. I think your players were sneaking roofies between innings. ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/23 "2001-11-05T06:10:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by friedo \* > \*\*Fucking [bastards](http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/baseball/mlb/ml/boxscores/2001/11/04/diamondbacks_yankees/). > > ☹ \*\* BWAHAHAHAHA! Oh, this is rich. Yankee fans upset that another team dared to beat the “mighty” Yankees. You had your run. Y’all got outplayed. Suck it up and eat your crow like a good boy. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/24 "2001-11-05T06:14:23Z")
Sounds like whining to me. Sorry, the better team won. Get over it. ---
**Author:** ![Asylum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@Asylum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asylum)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/25 "2001-11-05T06:17:07Z")
While I am absolutely ecstatic that the Yankees lost (and it’s nice that Arizona finally gets a major league championship in **any** sport), I gotta admit that I’m kinda scared that the Yanks are gonna come back next year. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/26 "2001-11-05T06:19:28Z")
Oops. I forgot…YEEHAAAA D-BACKS! ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/27 "2001-11-05T06:44:47Z")
Hey, I don’t give a fuck who won actually. I just find it really pathetic when people (a) Cheer others’ failures (see “schadenfreude”). (b) Fall all over themselves for a team that ain’t really a team (even though they’ve got some really extraordinary players - kudos to them). ---
**Author:** ![Philosophocles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b38774/32.png) [@Philosophocles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philosophocles)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/28 "2001-11-05T06:46:31Z")
😃 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/29 "2001-11-05T07:12:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by leander \* > \*\*Hey, I don’t give a fuck who won actually. I just find it really pathetic when people > > (a) Cheer others’ failures (see “schadenfreude”). > > (b) Fall all over themselves for a team that ain’t really a team (even though they’ve got some really extraordinary players - kudos to them). \*\* Hey, just think of it this way: Instead of months and months of “Byun-Hung Kim blew it” stories, we get months and months of “Mariano Rivera blew it” stories. Face it, schadenfreude is all that keeps sportswriting, and most sports fans who don’t live in cities where the teams are all owned by evil megalomaniacal billionaires, going. I’m just curious how Roger Clemens registers on your ‘not really a team’ radar? And, if as indicated by your schadenfreude stance, were rooting for the Yankees, where the frup you get off talking about anyone buying anything (“Bought and Paid For” earlier in the thread). _Cough_ Highest payroll in baseball _Un-Cough_ Not that it matters. The better team won. And I’m going to be telling that to every single person who asks all winter long. 😃 Plus, I’m really happy to see Randy Johnson getting a title. I just wish he’d stuck around with the M’s. Hey, cool anyway. (I’m a Mariners fan, btw. The Diamondbacks I like only because they’re owned by Jerry Colangelo who for years has run one of the best basketball organizations in the NBA.) ---
**Author:** ![Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/30 "2001-11-05T07:23:09Z")
Yeesh–am I the only one that opened up the thread expecting something truly shocking or mortifying, followed the link, and felt disgustingly dissatisfied? Sore loser. I’ll never understand sportsfans. ---
**Author:** ![leander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/bcef8e/32.png) [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/31 "2001-11-05T07:33:03Z")
I wasn’t rooting for either team, that’s the point. Pro-sports is all about money and trading players and little loyalty. C’est la vie. But what bothers me is when a team just appears, with no home-town tradition or fan-base. Just players bought, brought in from elsewhere, and put together in a place that exists only cause it has the money to do so. Think Brooklyn Dodgers pain. So when you say you’re happy that Randy Johnson got a title, I say cool. Good for him (and you). That’s player loyalty. But it’s clear you don’t give a hoot for AZ, and frankly, why should you? Cause you care for him, not the stupid city. I don’t think anyone really cares for AZ, except those suckers who live there - and I think it’s obvious why they’re suckers. As for schadenfreude, you’re right, dammit. Dammit, dammit, dammit. I still hate it. Wouldn’t the world be a better, nicer, greater place with only love and peace and…\…sorry, it’s been a long weekend. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JDeMobray](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@JDeMobray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JDeMobray)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 10:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/32 "2001-11-05T10:06:54Z")
But. . . but. . . what about my Jerry Colangelo comment? Doesn’t anybody care about Owner Loyalty anymore 😉 Seriously though, hometown tradition is all well and good but it’s got to start somewhere. I live in Seattle, and apparently we snuck in just under the cap, avoiding the dreaded “ha, they’ve got no tradition of sports in that city.” While not quite within my lifetime, there was a time during my parents lives where we didn’t have a pro baseball team. I think they would both take exception to the idea that they’re “old timers”. Somebody’s got to be the first generation of fans in any stadium. Somebody’s got to be the first season ticket holder. It is complete and total (Warning: Groundless geographic slur ahead) east coast provincialism to deny newer sports teams the right to exist. Some expansions don’t work (see Marlins, Florida and Grizzlies, Vancouver). But others thrive. How long ago was it that there was no Beehive in Charlotte? Some cities have proven that they have great sports fans, no matter what sport you want to play there. Phoenix is one of those cities. ---
**Author:** ![NutWrench](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nutwrench/32/20193_2.png) [@NutWrench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NutWrench)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/33 "2001-11-05T10:23:18Z")
All this ball-licking can’t be healthy. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/34 "2001-11-05T11:06:12Z")
You know, since I was raised in AZ (25 long and horrible years) I really should feel some sort of pride… or even … I dunno… _something_… but I just can’t bring myself to care one way or the other. ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/35 "2001-11-05T11:27:22Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by waterj2_ > **Well, as a Bostonian, this makes me feel all happy inside.** And it makes me, a Mariners fan, so very fucking happy! Good to see Randy Johnson finally getting a ring. He certainly deserves it. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/36 "2001-11-05T11:29:31Z")
Let me get this straight: This is all about _baseball?_ That’s _it?_ Just want to make sure. ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/37 "2001-11-05T11:50:00Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by yosemitebabe_ > **This is all about _baseball?_ That’s _it?_** What’s wrong with people getting passionate about something? Passion is what burns within a person’s soul, agitating and oscillating, yearning to break free. Deep within me, rising to the surface, droplets of my passion… Oh, uh, never mind. Off I go. ---
**Author:** ![Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecae2f/32.png) [@Bedrosian\_Bixby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bedrosian_Bixby)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/38 "2001-11-05T12:59:49Z")
Thw whole state of Arizona should worship at the altar of the Diamondbacks…because the Cardinals sure as hell won’t be winning any Superbowls soon. Anyway, it’s good to see Schilling get his Championship ring. One of my favorite World Series!!! ---
**Author:** ![Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/53a042/32.png) [@Vinnie\_Virginslayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vinnie_Virginslayer)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/39 "2001-11-05T13:30:00Z")
Friedo, we’ve catered to you New Yorkers enough. We feel bad about what happened to your city, but enough is ENOUGH with the motherfucking Yankees. The Diamondbacks were the one team that had the guts to not throw the series anyway. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548/40 "2001-11-05T14:48:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yosemitebabe \* > \*\*Let me get this straight: > > This is all about _baseball?_ That’s _it?_ > > Just want to make sure. \*\* Of course it is. Baseball is the greatest pastime that has ever been participated in by human beings. It transcends mere “sport.” Basketball is a sport. Soccer is a sport. Football is sort of a sport. But baseball is a gift from God, the very essence of perfection in human endeavour. It embodies all that is good about the human race and our world. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-entire-population-of-arizona-is-hereby-invited-to-collectively-lick-my-balls/91548.md?page=3)