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YankeeFan wrote: [quote=MeredithB]Oh please. As if anyone ever says, "Yankees suck" to anyone wearing a Yankees hat or shirt.

What? You're telling me that doesn't happen? Do you know how many times I've walked through Park Slope with a Yankee hat and had someone say that to me?

never had it happen, and I wear a Yankee hat almost every day.

hell, never had it happen when wearing a Yankee hat in New England. i usually get more compliments than anything else.

i think folks are tired of (N)ESPN shoving the Red Sux down America's throat.

if Wille Randolph were dead, he'd be dancing in his grave right now. at least Yankee fans more than have their dignity intact.

One thing is certain: Dread Sux fans wander all over NYC wearing their team's cap and/or jersey and are rarely if ever harassed, whereas colleges in New England routinely warn their students about wearing Yankees gear fearing for their safety; I've had friends antagonized at a Banana Republic in Maine; refused beer service at Fenway because a NYS driver's license is "not proper ID"; and on and on and on. I've seen countless dudes walk into 5th Ave bars here in Park Slope w/Dread Sux gear and no one blinks. I sincerely doubt I wouldn't get lip in an equivalent Boston neighborhood. (As a matter of fact, I've been told this would be the case, by more than one Sux fan of my acquaintance.)

As for the "Yankees Suck" chant, fine. It's all good. Part of the game, and all that. But to hear it at a Sux-Mariners game in Seattle just shows how deep the red-headed stepchild syndrome runs among the Dread Sux Nation. It's not like Yankee fans are watching every little move the Sux make. But then again, when you've been burned so many times and go thru an 86-year drought, you may have earned the right to be paranoid. I'm betting the current best team in baseball--the Halos, of course--send 'em packing soon enough.

As for the NL, with the Yankees off to a long, cold winter, I'm rooting for the Cubbies for sentimental reasons--if the Dread Sux's jinx concluded, why not their century-long curse--but that league is so pathetic. The NL West champs--the Dodgers--clinched with a worse record than the AL East 4th place Toronto Blue Jays! With the exception of the Mariners, ANY of the AL's current non-contending teams would administer beatdowns all over the NL. Not to mention 10 of the last 15 WS were won by the AL, with 5 of those 10 being sweeps.

Oh and about the DH, if the NL is not going to adopt it--which, from what I understand, it happens to be the only baseball league in the world at any level not to employ it--then teach pitchers how to hit, for Pete's sake. Nothing is lamer than a sure-fire, automatic out.

(Expect to see Willie Randolph in a high-profile position with the Yankees once his Mets-financed golden parachute runs out.)

The DH rule sucks

MichaelKeys wrote: [quote=yoda]The DH rule sucks

Not as much as a sure-thing out.

agreed. there's nothing more frustrating than watching a pitcher have to come to bat in the middle of a rally.

correction: there's nothing more frustrating than watching your ace pitcher break his foot because you made him run the bases during an interleague game in an NL park. no, i'm not bitter.