in honor of the current rival matchup competition in the american league series, i felt it necessary to evaluate my team loyalties. i’ve always considered myself a yankees fan, inspired mainly, i suppose, by my 7th grade english teacher, nat recine, who lived for ny baseball and also had a golf club handle named excaliber which he occasionally wielded at unsuspecting students. even before that, i think i liked darryl strawberry b/c his name was easy to remember and reminded me of my favorite fruit. but the cocaine scandal in 1999 was a strike against him (pardon the pun) and i had to pick a new favorite player. i saw bernie williams help an opponent off the ground in a game a few years ago and ran with that.
the red sox are cool. and yeah, they’ve got some cute & charming guys, like pitcher tim wakefield who really did play well in game one of the alcs, and manny ramirez who is adorable in that fun, chill kind of way.
but i still like andy pettitte and, though he really isn’t my type, derek jeter, and i always feel like joe torre has a calming influence. he just seems like such a regular, unpretentious, grandfather figure guy. the yankees are a great team, they represent a great city, they have a great history. they’ve played the series five times in the last decade and taken four of them. yeah, i had to look that stat up.
so i did do a little research and considered my fan options, and while i think boston fans are wild and crazy and awesome and i really like the font on their uniforms, the yankees wear classic, all-american blue and white. there’s just something about root root rooting for the city’s home team. they can win it!
why wasn’t the world series held in 1994?
quote of the day: “the journey is the reward” – tao proverb
love always, em locke
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