Of course he won't, he's a man, not an A-Rod. And I wouldn't because I'm a man, not a Yankee fan. But I do love my third baseman and I predict an MVP season from the most talented, hard working third baseman in the majors. So what? You want to fight about it. Seriously though, as far as New York (and New Jersey) sports go, football season is over and not a minute too soon (except for Tiki Barber). My man Mr. Wright is already down in Port St. Lucie getting ready to be a World Champion. Yeah that's Wright (pun intended), he wants to be the best there is...A-Rod who? Alex isn't even sure if he is a Dominican or an American...don't even ask what he is in the bathroom as the old joke goes...Don't ask, don't tell. Is Derek Cheater working out with his team yet? Does he already know all of the rookies and older veterans who are trying to make the team? No. They are Yankees and they don't show up to Spring training in the middle of winter. Personally, I cannot wait another moment until the real season begins...To smell that fresh cut grass...To hear the Ump shout, "Let's Play Ball"...To look over at the Donkey sitting next to me in the stands and get that knowing nod and then yell, "Hey Beer Stud, how 'bout two cold ones over here".
Bring the Spring is my mantra for the rest of the not so cold yet winter. Sure, there's the NBA but that really only gets rolling when the bees start buzzing and the flowers are blooming. Like the first three quarters of any NBA game, you just don't need to watch or care to...I like NCAA B-ball and I will watch with quiet intensity to see if my Alma Mater's very own Keydren "Kee Kee" Clark can win a third straight scoring title...but nothing compares to our National game.
I am very aware that some people feel baseball is boring. As a sensitive person, I feel badly for these folks as ADD and other acute learning disabilities have robbed them of their abilities, faculties, and what have you...Patience and attention to detail keep them from understanding subtle nuances. Unless there is crashing noise, brightly uniformed endzone dancing, and Hank Williams Jr. crooning, they simply can't keep up...It's not their fault so go easy on them and please put on your caps lock as well as italicizing any and all responses to said individuals. You should not lose your patience, it shows little character. Besides who else will sort your glass recyclables if not for them.Back to the ballgame...
Mets fans everywhere should be happy because we have a team that will compete daily (not weekly like in some sports). Every day, they will go out on the field with a good chance to win. We aren't the only team that has improved though. Seasons come and go but this one promises to be very competitive. This is a boast that NFL'ers have long felt was their own territory. A competitive league is a league where every year a team has a chance to win it all. Last time I looked though the same football team has won three of the last four Super Bowl's and smart money has them doing it again this year. Baseball however has had a different team win the World Series every year for the last six years. Small market and big market teams have won it all so that crushes that argument...Some of the small market teams have really put themselves on the map this offseason like Pittsburgh and Kansas City while the larger market teams, notorious for being cheap, have spent some dough as in Jim's Arlington Rangers of Texas & the Toronto Blue Jays (albeit they only paid more to finish a better third place team in the AL Least). The usual suspects have thrown around the big dough and now wait for the battles to commence. The American Game. No socialist caps and no endzone dancing. Just good old fashioned baseball, same as it ever was and I can't wait.
With that said, I would like to fire an opening salvo at my NY counterparts in the baseball fraternity of fandom. I am not only a Mets fan but a Yankees hater. I'm not only a memeber. I'm the president. Monday 1/16/2006 I will post my top ten reasons why the Mets are better than the Yankees. Until then...Beat it. Unless, you are willing to open up your nearest window, stick your head outside and scream:
LETS GO METS ! LETS GO METS ! LETS GO METS !
M-E-T-S
METS, METS, METS
WHOOMP THERE IT IS !
20 comments:
does anyone really care about baseball in january? in fact, does anyone really care about baseball? without a doubt the most boring of the major sports, and that includes hockey. In fact, i think i would rather watch nascar.....
IT'S OKAY...TAKE THINGS SLOW. A LOT OF PEOPLE LIKE WATCHING CARS GO ROUND IN CIRCLES...YOU'RE OUT THERE AND YOU'RE TRYING AND THAT'S WHAT'S IMPORTANT.
Im beginning to think that you are a leftover from the KGB's sleeper cell regime. Should I start calling you RhIvan? Huh comrade, would you like that you pinko commie bastard
yes fly, i'm trying...... to figure out why you would do a baseball post during football/basketball/hockey season? but hey, i didn't actually read past the part where you admit your love for another man, so maybe there was some kind of relevance.
i'm beginning to think you're a leftover from the 50's. that's how far back you have to go to remember a time when people thought baseball was more exciting than football. You know baseball was America's past time because it was the ONLY past time. Baseball is now the SOUTHamerican past time.
wait a minute, i just scanned the post and you actually said
"Let's Play Ball"...To look over at the Donkey sitting next to me in the stands and get that knowing nod and then yell, "Hey Beer Stud, how 'bout two cold ones over here".
is that what you guys were saying when you went to see brokeback mountain together too?
I AM GLAD YOU CAN READ RHINO...VERY GOOD. YOU KEEP IT UP. ACTUALLY THERE ARE SHOWS DEDICATED TO HOT STOVE AND OTHER OFF SEASON BASEBALL ACTIVITIES BUT I AM GLAD YOU ARE TRYING. KEEP IT UP KIDDO. WE NEED YOU AROUND HERE. YOU ARE AN IMPORTANT PERSON.
I am man enough to admit my love for my local cold carbonated liquid hops vendor, and yes I refer to him/her as "Beer Stud', for after all that is what they are. Not that theres anything wrong with that.
I know in Mexico you guys drink tequilla at soccer games, but this America ese, love it or leave it
soccer? Oh you mean futbal. anyway, have fun with the beer stud, i guess you need to make the game exciting somehow.
I HAVEN'T ACTUALLY SEEN THAT MOVIE I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT YOU ARE EXPANDING YOUR HORIZONS...THE BEER STUD THING WAS ACTUALLY A BUDWEISER COMMERCIAL...BUT YOU ARE TRYING AND I APPRECIATE THAT...IN FACT, I'D GIVE YOU A PAT ON THE HEAD IF I WAS IN YOUR GENRAL VICINITY. GOOD BOY...
I am very aware that some people feel baseball is boring. As a sensitive person, I feel badly for these folks as ADD and other acute learning disabilities have robbed them of their abilities, faculties, and what have you...Patience and attention to detail keep them from understanding subtle nuances. Unless there is crashing noise, brightly uniformed endzone dancing, and Hank Williams Jr. crooning, they simply can't keep up...It's not their fault so go easy on them and please put on your caps lock as well as italicizing any and all responses to said individuals. You should not lose your patience, it shows little character. Besides who else will sort your glass recyclables if not for them.Back to the ballgame...
Just an aside but do you think two straight guys would go see Brokeback Mountain together if they weren't gay? This is an interesting sociological experiment...I wonder if they would bring along an ugly girl from the office or from there local karokee(sp.?)night just to throw the dogs off their scent. Myself, I never felt comfortable going to a movie with one other dude...Maybe that makes me homophobic or vain or something but it's true. Even if it was a Dirty Harry movie, you gotta bring a chick or at least two or three more bro's...
2 dudes going to a man movie is ok. as long as you don't share the pop corn. 2 dudes seeing a gay/chick flick is not ok. it is just gay. glad i could help you out with this one so you weren't forced to try the experiment with donkey...... what's that?.... oh you guys WANTED to try it? ..... ummm well ok, that's cool..... umm yeah well don't let me know how it goes.
YES, RHINO IF I HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW TO BE MORE MASCULINE, I WOULD GO TO YOU FIRST...BY THE WAY, MAYBE YOU COULD GIVE ME THE NAME OF THAT EXCLUSIVE MAN GYM YOU USE...TO WORK OUT...YOUR PECS? PAX AURORA THOUGH...THERE IS NO CONVINCING YOU OF BASEBALL'S WORTH TO OUR WORLD. I GUESS YOU THINK IT WAS FOOTBALL THAT SOOTHED A NATION AFTER 9/11.
i said i go to an exclusive gym, i didn't say it was all male. that's just your fantasy.
also, you're right you can't convince me that baseball is important. it had nothing to do with "soothing the nation" after 9/11, unless you mean it helped people fall asleep because it's so boring.
Will you two cowboys make out already and get it over with. Jeez bunch of frickin nancys.
It is a sas sad day when a man cannot love the game of baseball or a movie about two cowboys who are having a secret gay love affair. What has our world come to?
Hockey? What are you a Canuck? Any sport where some 5'8 midget like Domi is considered a tough guy is one pink tutu away from figure skating.
Finger Painting?
Wanna go, pretty boy?
Racki Rules!!!
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