When I was in the law library copy room the other day a Staples delivery guy started giving me crap about my Yankees hat. We started trash talking, and I said that yeah, maybe if the Sox win they'll stop whining for 90 years. He said, "Nah, we'll keep whining. We've had lots of practice." So I said, "I know. While you guys have been practicing whining we've been practicing winning."
Then the librarian came and shushed us...
Tomorrow (or today already here) my classmates and professors will be sad (and cranky from staying up late just to lose). But what a series. What a sport. And what fun it's been to enjoy such an intense series in such an incredibly committed baseball town.
But tonight I realized that while it might be fun to spend some time in Boston during my law school years, I can't settle down here. I think maybe it's getting to be time to go home, back where I'm from, where I'm not the only Yankee fan around.
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Cathy,
Seems I haven't read your blog in a really long time...
If you pick up the current issue of ESPN the Mag, Bill Simmons opines on the whining thing. Makes it seem that every baseball fan except for the Yankees, Angels, D-backs, and Marlins have a right to whine. I have to agree, and furthermore, the Yankees shouldn't have the right to whine for at least another century, no matter how badly they suck - hey, Steinbrenner can't live forever (or maybe I should shut up while he can't hear me). I'd like to see him try to make the playoffs every year with only an $60mil payroll...
You can probably find a place or two where they host non-Boston fans somewhere... Not that central Jersey has many local sports fans, but the place I go to, the clientele is mostly pro-Steelers...
Posted by Koichi Nishitani | November 19, 2003 12:52 PM
Posted on November 19, 2003 12:52