i hate baseball..

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:

......You cannot give a playoff team an extra out in
the eighth inning, it's inexcusable and stupid.

Dumb, sure, but inexcusable? It's a game.

JR