If the Sox can do it, how about Cornell?

[jeh25]

[Q]billhoward Wrote:

  And the Patriots are due to lose sometime. [/q]

Yeah, maybe to Philly in January....

[billhoward]

[Q]cornelldavy Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:
Manny better hope the postseason doesn't count toward the Golden Glove.[/Q]
Manny's not winning any fielding awards in this lifetime, unless you want to give him something for the incredible and inexplicable diving catch he made this summer on a Johnny Damon throw from center field, giving the Orioles' David Newhan (son of another excellent sportswriter) an inside-the-park homer.[/q]

I think the original poster was speaking tongue in cheek about Manny's prowess.

[billhoward]

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:
>>>  plus oh good [sic?] the crazy guy who leers at me is outside of my apartment picking through the trash for cans which means I can't go out to pick up my laundry from the cleaners lest I inadvertently attract his attention...sorry, lost my train of thought.  [/q]

This is good training for married life when one repatriates from Hoboken or lower Manhattan back to Upper Saddle River and your trash cans are being rifled by ... raccoons. At least then you have more choices: Have-A-Heart traps or poison bait. I don't think when the can-rattler is two legged that you're allowed to pour arsenic and saltpeter in your half-drunk cans of Tab no matter how bad the guy smells. It might calm down an overly frisky blind date. Those are the tips you never find in Cosmo -- and they fancy themselves a public service magazine.

[billhoward]

[Q]Will Wrote:

 [Q2]Avash '05 Wrote:

The really memorable thing for me about Game 6 was Schilling giving the most awe-inspiring pitching performance I've ever seen (probably ranking up there with Jack Morris in 1991, which I did not personally see).
[/Q]
I think that's the one thing that we can all agree on with regard to this series.[/q]

Pedro's inning of [comic] relief in game six was equally memorable. It was actually a sporting gesture on Francona's part, giving the Yankees something to unit behind and to ("Who's Your Daddy!") cheer about.

[billhoward]

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:
I'd rather have a hockey team like the Yankees.  That way, we'd get a championship often enough so that the Faithful wouldn't start to whine in January about how much their team "sucked" (one of this board's more prolific poster's complaints last season) when they were at .500 or whatever.  Also, if our hockey team was like the Yankees, at some point in college I probably would have been hit on awkwardly at afterhours by a guy who looked like Derek Jeter, and ain't nothin wrong with that.[/q]

And you'd be wanting the Lynah Faithful to hear Ronan Tynan come out before the third period of *every* freakin' game and sing God Bless America? Ronan was dressed like he was going off on a polar expedition and he stayed out there almost as long as Admiral Byrd took to get all the way south. (As opposed to ex-commissioner Bowie Kuhn who used to wear only a suitcoat in 40 degree weather to suggest it was just another balmy November night for baseball.)

The Sox showed much more class calling in Kelly Clarkson because she was, well, um, let's see, how was she better than Ronan -- maybe it was the subte use of just enough layers of therma-cote eye shadow to make sure Kelly's eyelids suffered no frostbite? Maybe the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem weren't available. I would sooner have heard Tommy James and the Shondells reprise "Dirty Water."

[Beeeej]

[q]The Yanks are the NYC baseball team that it's cool to like[/q]

Perhaps not surprisingly, only Yankee fans believe that.  The rest of us know that the Yanks are the NYC baseball team that it's easy and conformist to like.  If they started really underperforming their payroll instead of just not winning championships, you'd suddenly see a lot fewer caps, and hear an awful lot of people claiming things like, "Oh, I was really just a Jeter fan, and now he's retired," or "I outgrew baseball."  :-D

Beeeej

[Jerseygirl]

Dude, Beeeej, anything I do is cool, not easy and conformist.  Ok, maybe just not conformist.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

[Q]jeh25 Wrote:

 [Q2]billhoward Wrote:

  And the Patriots are due to lose sometime. [/Q]
Yeah, maybe to Philly in January....[/q]

From your mouth to God's ears.   Go Iggles!

[jeh25]

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:
 oh good the crazy guy who leers at me is outside of my apartment picking through the trash for cans which means I can't go out to pick up my laundry from the cleaners lest I inadvertently attract his attention...sorry, lost my train of thought.  [/q]

JG-

Mebbe he's really there to leer at the 13 year old brat across the street with the man boobs bigger than most playmates...

[gtsully]

[Q]Jerseygirl Wrote:

Fourth, speaking of the "Year 2000" chant, I really don't think it will have the desired effect.  After all, the Yanks are really only a little off their pace of 1 championship every 4 years.[/q]

That has nothing to do with it.  The driving force behind that chant would be "Yankee fans have been annoying as hell with that 1918 chant for the last ten years or so, so we're going to give it back to them as often as possible, no matter how petty/insecure it seems."

You have no idea how annoying that chant is, especially when you hear it roughly 1,000 times a season.  Our only goal with a chant like that would be to annoy the bejesus out of Yankee fans, possibly to the point of physical voilence. ::twak::

Now, hopefully (knocking on wood), we actually get the chance to use it next year...  ::worry::

[Killer]

Well, you're not there yet, so there's still hope that the curse will win out.  And if you do manage to pull it off, don't be surprised next year to hear "2090...2090...2090".  Yep, that would be the next time you'd be expected to win it all.  You know, that 86-year cycle.  Dang, Halley's Comet would still come around more often than a Sox WS win.

[billhoward]

Now I'm sorry I brought this up.

[Jerseygirl]

[Q]gtsully Wrote:
 possibly to the point of physical voilence.

[/q]

because that's what Red Sox fans need to do, incite more physical violence... ::rolleyes::

[gtsully]

There is no curse.  Get over it.

[Killer]

Nice try.  But it's not the Yankee fans who have to get over the curse.  It's the Sox.  Maybe they'll break it this year.  Sure looks good for them right now.  But like I said, I'll accept them winning once every 86 years.