Comments on: A-Rod on 60 Minutes tonight

By: yanks61

yanks61 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 15:30:13 +0000

The Yankees are both the most hated and most LOVED team in all of America (maybe all the world, but I know next to nothing about soccer.)It just goes with the territory. When you’re top gun people come gunning for you. The Red Sox have won two of the last few ’shoot outs,’ but their fan’s inferiority complex is such that they’re STILL gunning for the Yanks. After all, they know how far they have to go to reach 26 championships.

Only a few years back there was a poll commissioned by somebody (I believe it may have been Baseball Digest)which showed the Yankees as by far and away the most popular team in the U.S. I live in Europe and when you see folks wearing baseball caps, it’s almost always a Yankee hat. I had a few joking words with a guy in France sporting a Yankee cap the other day, and he not only knew who they were but said if he ever gets to the States, it’s his dream to see a Yankee baseball game – just because the Yankees’ name is magical and a well known icon of success. Perhaps only Manchester United can come close to that iconic status.

The other side of the coin is the hatred manifested by a lot of losers. I think most of us admire success even if we want to beat the team or person that’s successful. I admit I admire Beckett’s performance in 2007, but I want the Yanks to beat his butt good in 2008. Losers tend to simply be jealous of winners. Thus the hatred.

Sorry, it’s perhaps a simplistic view, but I don’t think this stuff is rocket science!

By: walt

walt — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 03:50:42 +0000

BOSTON dave is a double agent!

By: The Mick

The Mick — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:56:48 +0000

alvaro,

you shouldn’t be that gullible, listenin to that guy dave and all…and we had a decent conversation going and that troll broke it up.

By: The Mick

The Mick — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:54:38 +0000

yep just what i thought…

By: The Mick

The Mick — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:54:07 +0000

still no answer dave? and what were my pro sox posts?

By: The Mick

The Mick — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:47:35 +0000

i just didn’t know the rules set down in here by BOSTON dave were that you couldn’t criticize arod anymre since his latest mvp. things have certainly changed since the pre-mvp years. sorry i’m just about the winning and that I like the “boring” Jeter, who’s name is hardly mentioned in here anymore, over arod. How fickle can you be? Talk about the flavor of the month.

By: Boston Dave

Boston Dave — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:45:24 +0000

anyone with time to waste is free to read the Mick’s pro-Sox / anti-Yanks posts earlier tonight… why the charade?

By: Drive 4-5

Drive 4-5 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:42:04 +0000

Here’s to ya Pete!

By: The Mick

The Mick — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:41:56 +0000

alvaro

Don’t listen to that voice behind the curtain, I am not a troll and have probably been a yankee fan twice as long as BOSTON dave’s been alive.

By: Drive 4-5

Drive 4-5 — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 02:41:12 +0000

Doreen,

Sorry to hear that news. His sound was a little soft for my taste,but I respected him. He was a talented man and one of the best in that genre.