i hate baseball..

GODDAMN!!

For a sport that supposed to be the apple pie of Americana, it sure stings
to watch the Cubs and Sox get pinched out once again. Our country is
supposed to stand for the rights of the little guy, the Reaganesque idea
that 'everyone can grow up to be a millionaire', the level playing field
where hard work and pureness of spirit pay off. But being a new englander,
and living in the shadow of the obtuse Great Satan with (as Forty put so
eloquently) its thuggish fans and overpaid prima donnas (and not just in
baseball), it is just abso****inglutely unfair and unamerican to put the
good people of the northeast through the yearly torture of building up their
hopes, filling them with small town pride and honor, then ripping their
hearts out with those filthy hands and stomping on them, laughing with those
stupid new york accents and spewing their disgusting sense of 'I got it all
and I want more' into the humble, pure country air of New England.

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea of the
reality of how this affects your life each year, to see the hated, fat cat,
overpampered, flabby-armed new yorkers get their selfish, perverse little
way, once agian, in one more way at the expense of everyone around them. I
don't *care* who got the most runs....once again, the Bosox DESERVED to win.
This is just....so.....wrong!!

--riverman
(don't TALK to me right now.)

riverman wrote:
GODDAMN!!

For a sport that supposed to be the apple pie of Americana, it sure stings
to watch the Cubs and Sox get pinched out once again. Our country is
supposed to stand for the rights of the little guy, the Reaganesque idea
that 'everyone can grow up to be a millionaire', the level playing field
where hard work and pureness of spirit pay off. But being a new englander,
and living in the shadow of the obtuse Great Satan with (as Forty put so
eloquently) its thuggish fans and overpaid prima donnas (and not just in
baseball), it is just abso****inglutely unfair and unamerican to put the
good people of the northeast through the yearly torture of building up their
hopes, filling them with small town pride and honor, then ripping their
hearts out with those filthy hands and stomping on them, laughing with those
stupid new york accents and spewing their disgusting sense of 'I got it all
and I want more' into the humble, pure country air of New England.

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea of the
reality of how this affects your life each year, to see the hated, fat cat,
overpampered, flabby-armed new yorkers get their selfish, perverse little
way, once agian, in one more way at the expense of everyone around them. I
don't *care* who got the most runs....once again, the Bosox DESERVED to win.
This is just....so.....wrong!!

--riverman
(don't TALK to me right now.)


Thanks for the laugh. We needed it!

"riverman" wrote in message
...
GODDAMN!!

For a sport that supposed to be the apple pie of Americana, it sure stings
to watch the Cubs and Sox get pinched out once again. Our country is
supposed to stand for the rights of the little guy, the Reaganesque idea
that 'everyone can grow up to be a millionaire', the level playing field
where hard work and pureness of spirit pay off. But being a new englander,
and living in the shadow of the obtuse Great Satan with (as Forty put so
eloquently) its thuggish fans and overpaid prima donnas (and not just in
baseball), it is just abso****inglutely unfair and unamerican to put the
good people of the northeast through the yearly torture of building up
their
hopes, filling them with small town pride and honor, then ripping their
hearts out with those filthy hands and stomping on them, laughing with
those
stupid new york accents and spewing their disgusting sense of 'I got it
all
and I want more' into the humble, pure country air of New England.

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea of
the
reality of how this affects your life each year, to see the hated, fat
cat,
overpampered, flabby-armed new yorkers get their selfish, perverse little
way, once agian, in one more way at the expense of everyone around them. I
don't *care* who got the most runs....once again, the Bosox DESERVED to
win.
This is just....so.....wrong!!

--riverman
(don't TALK to me right now.)


That is so much a metaphor for the way this country real is, and the way it
is being run. I'm voting New England in the next presidential election, and
I live in Tennessee.

Memphis Jim

"riverman" wrote in
:

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea
of the reality of how this affects your life each year, to see the
hated, fat cat, overpampered, flabby-armed new yorkers get their
selfish, perverse little way, once agian, in one more way at the
expense of everyone around them. I don't *care* who got the most
runs....once again, the Bosox DESERVED to win. This is
just....so.....wrong!!

--riverman
(don't TALK to me right now.)




Actually, after game 3, its hard to argue that they deserved to win.

Scott

"Scott Seidman" wrote in message
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"riverman" wrote in
:

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea
of the reality of how this affects your life each year, to see the
hated, fat cat, overpampered, flabby-armed new yorkers get their
selfish, perverse little way, once agian, in one more way at the
expense of everyone around them. I don't *care* who got the most
runs....once again, the Bosox DESERVED to win. This is
just....so.....wrong!!

--riverman
(don't TALK to me right now.)




Actually, after game 3, its hard to argue that they deserved to win.


Nonsense. They deserved to lose game 3. Their deserving to win the Pennant
and Series runs much, much deeper than that. Its in the air of New England,
the clean water, the resurgent salmon and trout, the hard-working-underpaid
labors of the rural folk of Maine and Vermont, the frugal 'getting-by'
attitude of entire towns, the simple values and deep friendships of college
buddies, the 'nature first' set of rules and laws they live by.

--riverman
(where's the freaking background violins when you need them!?)

"riverman" wrote in message ...

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea of the
reality of how this affects your life each year,

Relax, man...this "reality" has no impact at all on _real_ reality :-)
(and I grew up in Cleveland so I know a little about last-minute-losing
sports teams :-)

Seriously, though, I can't stand baseball. Its the most boring
professional sport out there. Except maybe soccer. (Oops, that's
not professional anymore, at least on this side of the pond.)

When I was still young I made a vow that I'd never choose to _watch_
a sports game if I had the opportunity to go out and actually play
one. Sure I could sit and enjoy a Browns game, but if someone else
was up for playing nine, I was outta there...turns out that a Browns
game is the best time to be out on the golf course...you have it
almost all to yourselves :-)

Now that I live out west, with _soo_ much to do outdoors all the time,
I can't hardly make it through a game on TV. It's just so boring.
Any sport.

Well, except golf. The Sunday round of a major where the leader board
is tight is awfully hard to beat...

I'm sure I'll get flamed for that!

Jon.

Jonathan Cook wrote:

Relax, man...this "reality" has no impact at all on _real_ reality :-)
...
Seriously, though, I can't stand baseball. Its the most boring
professional sport out there.
...
I can't hardly make it through a game on TV. It's just so boring.
Any sport.

Well, except golf. The Sunday round of a major where the leader board
is tight is awfully hard to beat...

Baseball is boring, but golf, GOLF !!, is hard to beat ?!?

Your "reality" has no impact at all on _real_ reality.

And baseball is boring only to those who don't understand baseball.

--
Ken Fortenberry- consider yourself flamed ;-)

My parents practiced the cruelest form of child abuse...they made me a Cubs
fan! My thoughts on the whole sad thing is this....The Cubbies choked and
the Red Sox did the same thing. Hex, curse, bad calls, bad press.....nothing
beats a team that won't give up...They both folded like a cheap suit, IMO.
The poor guy in Chitown that touched a foul ball (he was one of about 20
that reached for it) is being blamed for the collapse. The next pitch went
to the backstop and 8 runs scored before two more outs. Whose fault was
that?

Wait till next year! (sigh)....

Mark



"riverman" wrote in message
...
GODDAMN!!

For a sport that supposed to be the apple pie of Americana, it sure stings
to watch the Cubs and Sox get pinched out once again. Our country is
supposed to stand for the rights of the little guy, the Reaganesque idea
that 'everyone can grow up to be a millionaire', the level playing field
where hard work and pureness of spirit pay off. But being a new englander,
and living in the shadow of the obtuse Great Satan with (as Forty put so
eloquently) its thuggish fans and overpaid prima donnas (and not just in
baseball), it is just abso****inglutely unfair and unamerican to put the
good people of the northeast through the yearly torture of building up
their
hopes, filling them with small town pride and honor, then ripping their
hearts out with those filthy hands and stomping on them, laughing with
those
stupid new york accents and spewing their disgusting sense of 'I got it
all
and I want more' into the humble, pure country air of New England.

Argh. Unless you grew up in upper right hand corner, you have no idea of
the
reality of how this affects your life each year, to see the hated, fat
cat,
overpampered, flabby-armed new yorkers get their selfish, perverse little
way, once agian, in one more way at the expense of everyone around them. I
don't *care* who got the most runs....once again, the Bosox DESERVED to
win.
This is just....so.....wrong!!

--riverman
(don't TALK to me right now.)




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Mark W. Oots wrote:

My parents practiced the cruelest form of child abuse...they made me a Cubs
fan!

You have my deepest sympathies. I am a Cardinals fan and I can't even
begin to imagine the psychological damage you have endured. Although
the 1968 World Series did wreak havoc on my 11 year old psyche. ;-)

....The Cubbies choked and
the Red Sox did the same thing. Hex, curse, bad calls, bad press.....nothing
beats a team that won't give up...They both folded like a cheap suit, IMO.

You're full of it. Both the Cubs and the BoSox were beaten by better baseball
teams. Period, end of paragraph.

The poor guy in Chitown that touched a foul ball (he was one of about 20
that reached for it) is being blamed for the collapse. ...

He was one of about 4 or 5 but he's the one who knocked it away from Alou's
glove. He should be excoriated, he was a moron. He had a front row seat and
he ****ed up his own team. You cannot give a playoff team an extra out in
the eighth inning, it's inexcusable and stupid.

Meanwhile, from a cave in Pakistan

http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/...-april.gallery

;-)

--
Ken Fortenberry

Ken Fortenberry wrote:

And baseball is boring only to those who don't understand baseball.


Absolutely true.

Russell
(If you have to have it explained to you, you would never understand.)