Macht das Yanken kaput
The Yankees are finished, and justice wins out once more. Seeing the Yankees falter was #1 on my postseason wish list, so now I feel I can sit back and just enjoy the rest of the show. Why do I take such pleasure in the misery of others? Tim hits the nail on the head — and puts it much more eloquently than I would:
Yankee fans are spoiled brats. The Yankee front office is completely insatiable. Which is why, in every year of this new century, I have gleefully enjoyed seeing the Yankees lose in the postseason. Because it feeds the beast. It drives Yankee ownership and many fans to tension, anger, and bitterness — as if they were denied something that was promised them as a birthright — which makes each subsequent Yankee ouster that much sweeter to savor for us, the fans of any other franchise in baseball.Spoiled brats. Exactly. See now, I would have posited that Yankees fans are assholes, and left it at that. But the thing is, Red Sox fans are pretty much assholes, too. The difference is, they're a jolly bunch of lunatic assholes, which makes them fun to be around. And when they lose, Sox fans gnash their teeth and rend their garments — Yankees fans whine and sulk.
Hee hee. It brings an evil little Damien grin to my face.
All in all, the division series have left us with the most just postseason in memory. The four remaining teams — Oakland, Detroit, St. Louis, and non-evil New York — happen to be the only four teams that led their divisions for nearly the entire season. The Yanks didn't pass the Sox until late July, the Twins came on at the very end (I guess I was wrong about their momentum though, huh?), and no team in the NL West really deserved to move past the division series (the whole season was a game of musical chairs for them — even the Rockies were in first place for five weeks).
A Cardinals-Tigers World Series would be classic. But I'm hoping (and expecting) it'll wind up Mets-Tigers. Because, think about it: Mets. Tigers. Both teams finished fourth the last two seasons, and dead last the two season before that.
It's a Revenge of the Nerds season, with the Yankees scurrying back to their locker room with liquid heat in their jockstraps.
Sweet Bourbon Daddy ~ 10:17 AM ~ link
3 Comments:
Thanks for the quote and linkage, Matt -- and I love the Revenge of the Nerds bit. Despite historically being a Cards fan (going back to the Herzog era), I'd have been happy to see San Diego advance, just for the sake of Mike Cameron, but your point about division-dominating justice makes sense.
By the way, it's your fault that I'm now spending several hours a week watching episodes of House. Like I wasn't watching enough TV already... :-)
As I'm historically (and genetically) a Cubs fan, I have a natural resistance to pulling for either the Cards or the Padres -- though in recent years that's been waning. Still, my sympathies lie with the Tigers this October, mainly for Pudge and for Carlos.
House is as addictive as that Vicodin he keeps popping. And with Lost and Battlestar off to HUGE starts, Green Arrow appearing on Smallville, and new shows like Heroes and Studio 60 already getting their hooks in me, my evenings are pretty much all sold out to the big box.
I have named my TV "Vaal."
We are the feeders of the Big Box. The Big Box calls to us. We must heed it. If we do not, the Big Box will be angry!
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