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YANKEES LOSE!!!! THAAAAAAAA’ YANKEEEEEES LOOOOOOSE!!!!

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And now, for the next six months, we get to listen to the Airing of Grievances!

Whenever the Yankees lose, it’s Festivus!

 
 

There an old (1968) song, and it goes like this:

We’re all behind our baseball team
Go get ’em, Tigers!
World Series bound, and picking up steam
Go get ’em, Tigers!
There’ll be joy in Tigertown, we’ll sing you songs
When the Bengals bring the pennant home, where it belong
We’re all behind our baseball team
Go get ’em , Detroit Tigers,
Go get ’em, Tigers!

 
 

Sweet.

It’s such a pleasure to see the Yankees lose.

 
 

Let the A-Rod trade rumors begin! Who’ll be dumb enough to take his candy ass?

 
 

Um, there are probably 26 teams in the Major Leagues who would love to have A-Rod, particularly for cents on the dollar.

Would you take Griffey for him? Please?

 
 

Just wish my team could have been the one to do it.

But, there is always next year!
(And, perhaps a world series inbetween?)

 
mmm...lemonheads
 

Being in Detroit (or the outskirts thereof) I have longed for some good baseball since ’87, and we even challenged the record for ineptitude three years ago (119 losses). And we hate the Yanks, so this is damn sweet. GO TIGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
 

There’s also an old song from the ’70’s. Goes something like this…

Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers
Houston Oilers

and so on and so on and so on.

 
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Our young pitching, along with the veteran Gambler should get us past the A’s in five or six, I think. Maybe optimistic thinking, but if Pudge and Ordonez come up with some clutch hittting we’re going all the way, baby.

 
 

On a personal level, I was genuinely surprised how much joy this gave me. It was almost the same rush as when the giants win. The yankees players claim they love being the hated yankees on the road, but jeez, it’s gotta be hard to be THAT hated.

I esepcially love to watch steinbrenner melt down. That always cracks me up. Now I’m thinking, arod to the giants to replace that aging superstar? Or even better (and perhaps slightly more likely) would be Joe Torre as the giants manager?

mikey

 
mmm...lemonheads
 

“We’re all behind our baseball team
Go get ‘em, Tigers!
World Series bound, and picking up steam
Go get ‘em, Tigers!
There’ll be joy in Tigertown, we’ll sing you songs
When the Bengals bring the pennant home, where it belong
We’re all behind our baseball team
Go get ‘em , Detroit Tigers,
Go get ‘em, Tigers!”

That song’s going to be stuck in my head for the next three weeks. Thanks. I think.

 
 

As a New Yorker, I’m thrilled. Nothing ruins fall more than the annual Hopping of the Bandwagon.

Suck it, Steinbrenner.

 
 

The fact is the Yankees are the greatest, warmest, most wonderful baseball team in the history of the sport.

It’s completely consistent with the socialism contantantly espoused at this blog to try to undercut the most highly paid, highly financed team in the American League. Always punish the rich, eh, commies?

 
 

Ease up, people. A lot of us grew up Yankee fans, and turned out fine – really, it’s true.

Rivalries are great, but this is just obnoxious.

I’m really, really sorry that, for most of you, the team you root for didn’t win anything this year. And, I’m sorry that your team doesn’t have the money to bring in, or keep talent. Also, apologies are in order for your team not having an owner (pardoned felon or otherwise) who wants only to win. I can’t do anything about your team’s likely history of ineptitude either.

Better luck next year.

Oh, and Tigers over the Mets 4-2 in the Series (What? The Mets suck).

 
 

Oh, yeah,.that feels good…

 
 

Why aren’t you being paid to post these witty and insightful commentaries on the biggest issues of the day, Brad? I don’t understand it.

 
 

As a Mets fan, I have to agree with Brad R.

 
 

I saw a story today about Joe Torre having suffered abuse as a child, and how he and his wife have set up a program to benefit children who are victims of domestic abuse. So, I can’t hate on him for that (that, and the fact [copyright Gary Ruppert] that he’s aformer Brave.

Still, it’s nice when the Pinstripes take a fall. See ya next year, A-Rod!

 
 

Nice to see A-Rod (1 for 14) earn his keep. LOL!!!

 
 

Man, so we have Detroit vs Oakland in the ALCS – that should be a fun series.

After he was injured when the White Sox finally won the series, I’m kinda hoping that Frank Thomas gets to contribute to a World Series victory this year.

 
 

I dunno. Those of us who grew up in the Bay Area in the fifties and sixties had the giants and the 49ers. Everything oakland was hated. And then the A’s had so much sucess in th seventies, gawd, we in the “West Bay” or the “North Bay” hated that. So it’s very hard for me to root for the A’s, especially after ’89, so I’m gonna be on board with the tigers. I’d like to see a tigers – padres series, just for the fun of a pitching series…

mikey

 
 

I’m really, really sorry that, for most of you, the team you root for didn’t win anything this year.

Well, mine did.

So suck it, Yankees.

 
 

buckethead, I annually root for the Yankees to lose, despite having a lot of respect for a lot of the team, especially Jeter. When I was a kid though, I was a pretty big Yankees fan, since the Twins (my team) were horrible. I really liked Thurman Munson, Roy White, Willie Randolph, and Chris Chambliss, and I found Reggie Jackson hilarious. Plus, I really hated the Dodgers, and I loved watching the Yanks spank them in the series in ’77 and ’78. I think the thing that bugs me about them now is the way they get covered by the media. A Jeter hangnail would get more press than a Jake Peavy perfect game. How many times did I turn on a nationally broadcast game to find that it was the Yankees, the Red Sox, or, more likely, the Yankees vs. the Red Sox? That coverage will allow Jeter to win an undeserved MVP award this year. I’m also happy to see that Steinbrenner can’t buy a championship with a bunch of old, slow, mediocre fielding former All-Stars. That said, some of my best friends are Yankees fans, and I think it will be interesting to see what they do in the off season. Will they finally wise up and get some young pitching? Will they fire Torre and/or Cashman? Will they trade Giambi or A-Rod? What about Sheffield? Sorry about the rant. Go Tigers!

 
 

I grew up a long-distance Brooklyn Dodgers fan before the Orioles came to Baltimore. There was a political edge to it.

The Orioles became the home team and the Dodgers left Brooklyn and so the affair ended.

But I still hate the Yankees.

 
 

We’ll just to console ourselves with thought of those 26 world series titles we have. And if you’re a Tigers fan, hey, only 22 more to go, and you’ll be all caught up!

Good luck to the Tigers. I hope you guys win it all.

 
 

I would just like to add: Ha, ha!! There must surely be a supreme being.

 
 

Having watched every painful inning of the Twins/A’s series and having watched the Tigers pretty closely all year, it’s going to be a really good series. The Tigers are susceptible to the very thing that killed the Yankees in the ALDS, the reliance on power to score. I was surprised to find that the A’s are actually pretty good at doing the little things to win series. They got really timely hitting, and their pitching was top-notch against the Twins. Their defense was really solid as well. They made no mistakes against the Twins, and every time the Twins fucked up they capitalized. It’s a pretty evenly matched series, and it’s going to be fun to watch.

 
 

Coming soon to the Chicago Cubs: A-Rod!

Anyway, it’s nice to see the Yankees get their comeuppance again, especially after the Great Red Sox Implosion of Aught-Six.

And it’s nice to see the A’s having some success. No town should have to suffer the shame of the Raiders and a bad baseball team.

 
 

It wasn’t so painful from an A’s fan’s perspective. Except for losing their second baseman to a broken finger.

Never
Trailed
Once.

Tigers will be a tough crew, no doubt. Anybody blaming Arod for trouble hitting vs Kenny Rogers does not know Kenny Rogers. Certainly Steinbernner wished he was a Yankee.

 
 

I find that the perfect battlecry/taunt tends to be, “Suck it, Blue!”

 
 

The Tigers EARNED that spot. It’s going to be tedious listening to the bleating of A’s fans (I live in the Bay) for the next little while, but sweet, sweet victory will make it all better.

 
 

As a Tigers fan living in New York… it’s a beautiful, beautiful day.

 
 

GO OAKLAND

 
 

oh and Mikey. That really burns, man. I think I have liked everything you have ever written on this blog before now.

I guess, since I hate the Giants, I will have to try to reach across the aisle and practice some understanding.

 
 

I liked the line from one of the announcers on FOX–“Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for the house in blackjack.” The deck is stacked in their favor. Other sports leagues take pains to make their revenues and payrolls close to equitable, believing that leads to more competition and whets the interest of fans in general; MLB has always taken the opposite route–stuff one team with superior personnel so everybody knows their players and equates them with excellence. For the last six years, the Yankees’ $200 million lineup has clobbered their opponents during the regular season, only to fall short in the postseason…yet I’ll bet if they did a poll in February, about half the US population would say the Yankees were the World Champs. Small wonder people like to see them lose. I also liked it when Enron went bankrupt.

 
 

I’m a Yankee fan. However, I put sports in perspective and don’t really get too upset when they lose. I will note that they lost a little later than other team such as…oh, I dunno…the Red Sox. World Championships in the last century, Yankees 26, Red Sox 2.

 
 

NY Daily News already reporting Torre is fired.

If so, the Mets have as much to do with that as the Tigers. Steinbrenner historically cannot stand seeing the Mets getting the better headlines.

 
 

Double my pleasure…the Dodgers were swept by the Mets. Hooray!

 
 

Suck it, Steinbrenner.

Yeah. Heh, heh! (Sweet, sweet, delicious yankee loss!)

Thanks for showing the A’s some love up in here, Kathleen! Seems we got a lot of Mikey-type A’s-hatin’ Giants fans in here. I understand that the folks who grew up in the Bay Area before the A’s came are mostly Giants fans, but I never understood the hate toward the A’s. The Giants have all the media (they own both radio sports stations as well as the main newspaper), and their city gets all the love while Oakland gets all the disrespect. I always thought the the Giants fans should be “above” hating the A’s, but oh well.

I’m Oakland born and raised, and have been a diehard A’s fan all the way. Conventioal wisdom had the Twins over the A’s. Now it seems the same CW has the Tigers over the A’s, hopefully with the same results! (Tigers fans – if the A’s weren’t in it, I’d be cheering for you).

Let’s Go A’s!

 
 

“Um, there are probably 26 teams in the Major Leagues who would love to have A-Rod, particularly for cents on the dollar.” — DS

There is a weird quirk involved with trading A-Rod: the Yankees are only paying him 16 of the 25 million on his contract, with Texas picking up the other 9 million. But, I’m pretty sure that if he is traded again, Texas is freed from any share of the A-Rod contract, meaning that either the accepting team will be paying A-Rod 25 million (not bloody likely), or the Yankees are going to eat a shitload of money. Seeing as how they pussed out of the Beltran contract because they were near the top of their budget, all indications are that it would severely hamper their financial flexibility. Contrary to media spin, even the Yankees can’t spend more than they take in, and their revenue stream is reportedly around 300-350 million dollars annually. There are situations where they will back off of adding salary, and having to dole out 10 million dollars annually to a player who they desperately unloaded onto another team would help bring about those situations.

My take on it is, A-Rod isn’t their problem. It’s fun to see him wriggle around and squirm on the hook under pressure from their idiot fans, but he isn’t the reason they didn’t win. If they trade him and eat a lot of money to do so, they’re compounding the problem.

“Ease up, people. A lot of us grew up Yankee fans, and turned out fine – really, it’s true. Rivalries are great, but this is just obnoxious.” — buckethead

Compared to the sea of obnoxious that is the New York Yankees franchise and their fans, this post is but a water molecule.

“I’m really, really sorry that, for most of you, the team you root for didn’t win anything this year. And, I’m sorry that your team doesn’t have the money to bring in, or keep talent.” — buckethead

Yeah, Royals and Indians fans! The Yankees have ONE playoff win and you have how many?! ZERO! Suck on THAT!

This rationalization would be funny if it wasn’t so pathetic. Yankees fan humility = Republican ethics.

“Also, apologies are in order for your team not having an owner (pardoned felon or otherwise) who wants only to win. I can’t do anything about your team’s likely history of ineptitude either.” — buckethead

Whatever this unnamed team is, I think it’s safe to safe to say they never led a series 3-0 and then lost four straight. Actually, I’m fairly certain, because that level of ineptitude has only been reached once in the 150 year history of baseball.

“As a Tigers fan living in New York… it’s a beautiful, beautiful day.” — Steve

As a Mets fan living in New York… thanks. Hang on another week or so and you can play the Varsity. =D

 
 

260 million just doesn’t buy what it used to.

 
 

As a Mets fan living in New York… thanks. Hang on another week or so and you can play the Varsity.

Indeed. I look forward to the ’68 or ’84 rematch 🙂

 
 

can i pile on ? yes, no, maybe, kind of? bwhahhh!!!! go tigers!!!!!!

 
 

Mmmmmmmm….nothing says series lovin’ like a Yankee shutout. Mmmmmmmm.

 
 

Enough of this Oakland-San Francisco bickering. Half Giants-half A’s caps for everyone in the Bay Area.

 
 

Typical redsox fan, to laugh at the yankee fans pain. The reason people hate the yankees is beacuse we are there every year or least we have a chance to win it every year. Cashman, and Steinbrenner spend money to be there. Yes of course money doesn’t mean everything. But least we make the effort. The redsox could’ve gotten Abreu, but didn’t we did.

So yea laugh all you want. But you guys still have ways to go before you can get to our levil. So yea hahaha, we’ll still be there next year :). Were will you guys be? Oh wiate yea I know, playing golf in october………..

Well enjoy those pats. Beacuse most likely around this time of year it’s asll you guys have left. 🙂 Ok pardone this rant may have been alittle long and what not, but well I’m just really getting sick of Yankee haters.

From blogs to the media everyone roots against us just beacuse we do what it takes to win. That’s what’s ‘supposed to be done. Doing what it takes to win. If the redsox did it, and they do, ya’d be happy. But they dont, and well hey that’s the breaks. So untill you spend the money, you’re boys will be trying to reach the fairway, while we are in the playoffs next year as well :).

 
 

Bucket; that sour taste in your mouth? That would be from the grapes.

What’s that saying? “Only like two teams: Team X and whoever beats the Yankees.”

 
 

Tom’s funny. I”m adding him to my previous post.

 
 

Sorry Kathleen, I just can’t do it. I’d even consciensly TRY to root for the A’s in the ALCS, but it won’t work – my heart will be rooting for the tigers. If the A’s go to the world series against the mets or st louis, then, even in spite of 1989, I WILL be rooting for the A’s. Jeez, when you think about it, this is kind of complicated…

mikey

 
 

I dig the John Sterling parody. Almost like he’s right here beside me saying it.

 
 

Yes.

Year two-thou-saaand! Clap, clap, clap-clap clap!

I’m pulling for the Mets something fierce, now (sorry Grady), solely because the Yankee fans will hate it so much.

 
 

Lifelong Tigers fan here, and while I’m not a reflexive Yankee-hater, I enjoyed this one a lot not just because it was the Tigers but, as another poster put it, the Yankees seem to get all of the media coverage no matter what they do. Yes, they’re a great, great team and even I thought that they had the edge on the Tigers going into the series because of the way the Tigers played at the end of the regular season. Even after the Tigers’ victory, however, there was a lot more talk about what the Yankees didn’t do and less about what the Tigers did do.

Really, the only thing that may correct that is for the Tigers to win it all, and let’s face it, that’s something the Tigers haven’t done much of in a very long time. So there’s still something to prove. This ALDS win is a big one, though, because it shows that the Tigers aren’t just some fluke.

The Tigers-A’s matchup is a good one and this is a series I’d much rather see than Tigers-Twins. I’m sick of the Twins.

 
spaghetti happens
 

I told ’em not to make Damon shave, but would they listen? Serves ’em right.

 
 

That’s right, spaghetti happens. Look at Magglio Ordoñez’s hair. That’s the reason the Tigers won this series.

 
 

Clearly, the Yankees were spaghetti pushers and not spaghetti pullers this time around.

 
 

I’d like to see A-Rod traded, because I want to see the best shortstop in the game today back to playing shortstop – goddammit!

Yankees can afford to eat $10-12 million of his contract and still hire every free agent in November. I’d guess that A-Rod is heading to Boston, but to the Cubs would be good. I want to see the Cubs with a world championship so we never have to hear about any fucking curses no more. I mean, seriously.

And it’s nice to see that we’re seeing 7 different world champions in the seven seasons since 2000. Even though as before I still would like to see Oakland win for the sake of Thomas, I am pretty excited about the prospect of a Mets-Tigers series.

 
 

From blogs to the media everyone roots against us just beacuse we do what it takes to win.

Is this a joke? The media fellates Derek Jeter at every turn. Once they playoff field was set, the media consensus, from ESPN to most major newspapers, was that the Yankees essentially had a free pass into the ALCS. Half the columns I read basically said “Why bother playing this series … just put the Yankees in.”

People hate the Yankees because their asshole owner throws money around like a drunken sailor on shore leave and, for the most part, many of their fans are the most insufferable assholes in the world when it comes to THEIR team.

Typical Yankees fan when the Yankees win: “We won!”
Typical Yankees fan when the Yankees lose: “They lost.”

 
 

Ah, ESPN.

“Let’s do another post game interview with the loser Yankees, rather than whoever it was that won.”

Can’t we all unite in a little ESPN hatred?

Kumbiya, et al.

 
Smiling Mortician
 

Haven’t really paid attention to baseball in decades. Don’t really care a lot. Go ahead and throw stuff — unless your aim’s really, really good, it won’t make it through the intertubes and hit me anyway.

But. I must say that this Tigers talk does remind me of the happiest summer/fall of my life: 1968, when I was but a tyke in Michigan, watching the Tigers with my dad, seeing how much it meant to him that they went all the way, and later realizing how blissfully unaware I was of the larger world beyond baseball . . .

Eh. OK. Back to our regularly scheduled fangasm.

 
 

as a Red Sox fan, all I have to say is “2004, baby!”

 
Brian tha Texas Transplant
 

And it gives the Giants the rights to hire Joe Torre…YAY!!!

 
 

OK, when did that rat-bastard Kenny Rogers turn into a great pitcher?

 
 

“And it gives the Giants the rights to hire Joe Torre…YAY!!!” — Brian tha Texas Transplant

This is going to sound like a “concern troll”, but I actually mean it. You better hold off on the enthusiasm. (Joe Torre) – (really good players) = Grady Little. Believe me, I’ve been there. He managed the Mets for six years when I was a small child. His non-Yankees record is 894-1,001; when he was hired as the Yankees’ manager it was fodder for back page headline puns and sports radio bile-spewing.

I do think he has some attributes of a great manager. He is a calming presence on the whiny little bitches that populate his clubhouse. He is great at putting out media fires. And he definitely is an all-around classy guy. However landing in the right place at the right time has put him in the Hall of Fame.

The best thing Joe Torre can do for his legacy is never take another field manager job. The “aura” that once surrounded him has steadily eroded for the past five years of playoff collapses, but there is still a modicum of “juice” behind the myth. If he takes another job with a regular team that can’t make it into the playoffs on autopilot, and is the 1980 Joe Torre again, history may rewrite itself and minimize his input from the Yankees’ successes.

 
Nancy in Detroit
 

I am a peaceful person. I have never raised my hand to another human being, except for a man that was hitting me. That being said, throughout this series I was desperately wanting to slap the smug off Derek Jeter’s face.

I now love the picture at the top of this post above all things.

 
 

For insightful analysis of the Yankees’ loss, I recommend the Kid from Brooklyn (adult language, for those who like to be warned of such things).

 
 

Johnny Damon could have stayed in Boston for this outcome.

From that pic, maybe he wishes he had.

I’ll take a grumpy Big Papi over a grumpy a-rod or jeter any doy of the week.

 
 

Joe Torre is a classy guy. Yeah, his non-Yankee managerail career was mediocre. Still, he’s a classy guy, impossible to dislike.

That being said, and I quote Steve Gilliard here:

“Fuck the fucking Yankees”.

 
 

The Fox announcer was paraphrasing an old comment: “Rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for General Motors.” Of course, GM is having a lousy year, too.

As a Mets fan in the heart of NYC I’m tired of hearing all the Yankee whining and excuse-making, just as if we didn’t have a team going to the Series (sorry, Cards). If Steinbrenner has a stroke and dies out of sheer frustration, baseball will be a better place. I like Joe Torre, too, I just wish he and his overpaid under-achievers would clean out their lockers and go play golf. It’s over. I gotta say LET’S GO METS but I won’t be devastated if Detroit wins. They want it so bad, and they’re a great team with a great manager, the underappreciated Jim Leyland.

PS: Just heard Torre has a job here in 2007.

 
 

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