Anyone interested in a "Throw mama from the train" deal?
 

Nope. That's life. Love clouds the judgment. If someone doesn't love you back and you allow yourself to be strung along, then it sucks when you get dumped, but you got snowed. All's fair.

TM

Anyone interested in a "Throw mama from the train" deal?
 

Maybe mmmm is right and we are the same person.

Halloween
 

I'm still a little gun shy from the time in college that I passed out cigarettes. Some parents have no sense of humor.

Anyone interested in a "Throw mama from the train" deal?
 

All that means is that he's got more than three inches. Not a very high bar in any state.

Halloween
 

In your part of the world, you can simply print up tracts full of horrible mutilation quotes from Revelations and a little blurb at the bottom about how they're all going straight to hell for worshiping Satan.

Halloween
 

Word to the wise. Trick-or-treaters are greedy little suckers. A few years back, in an effort to be a "good" house, we started handing out fistfulls of candy early on in the evening. The word got out to the rest of the trick-or-treating set, and we were deluged with short people in polyester capes. An emergency trip to Walgreens had to be made halfway through the evening.

If you really don't want to a) give out candy and b) be a target because you don't give out candy, cultivate one of the following personas:

• Elderly single woman rumored to be a witch whose house was appropriately creepy looking and whose yard was appropriately overgrown. There was fear of venturing near the house, much less knocking on the door. (My mother's version of this lady apparently went all out every single Halloween and hand made cookies and candies (back then no one cared about pre packaged candy), and was driven to tears every single year that the kids didn't come. But apparently every year she got ready, just in case. Her mother told her about it several years later, throwing on even more guilt to an already guilty conscience.)
  
• Childless, humorless couple that was always chasing kids away from their property, out of the flower beds, away from the dog, etc. Rumor had it that a gun was pulled on one kid at some point for coming within ten feet of the house. They NEVER had to give out candy.
  
• Scary middle aged guy who still lived with his parents and liked to try to talk to the neighborhood kids as much as possible. The type of guy when they interview the neighbors after having found several bodies in the attic, the neighbors aren't surprised at all. "Yeah, we figured it was a matter of time."
  
• The kid in the neighborhood that no one liked's house. Just in case you had to be nice to their parents and ended up being invited over. The same kid always came to your house, being nice to your parents and hoping that your parents would invite them over.
  
• The house with the dogs that nearly ate someone's older brother three years ago.

Otherwise, follow the crowd and try to blend in with the rest of the people buying candy at Target or Walgreens or wherever's closest.

The CHOKE of the MILLENIUM
 

Okay. Understood.

But, what is Steinbrenner supposed to do? His team is successful. Successful teams make money. He puts a hell of a lot of money back into the team to ensure their success. He plays by the rules. Other teams love to take his money when he buys their overpriced players (they don't all come via free agency), but then they bitch about how unfair it all is.

Like I said, no one said a fucking thing when Georgie spent and spent and spent all his money on the wrong players in the 80s. It's only become an issue since he hired the right people and spent in the right places.

Let's see what Boston does in the off-season. That should be interesting. It's not like they don't have the money to keep their guys. They just don't want to pay them. They run players out of town all the time by either insulting them or by short-changing them. Then they turn around and point at the Yankees and scream, "Unfair!"

And, please. I don't want to hear about Yankees fans being unbearable. No matter which team wins, their fans are unbearable. That's the way it goes. You just think Yankees fans are more unbearable than others because we have more opportunity to be unbearable.

So, what are you really so pissed about? Free agency? The way MLB is set up? Or is it the fact that the Yankees spend their money on the team and don't put it directly in their pockets instead?

TM

The CHOKE of the MILLENIUM
 

Technically, Yale comes out on top there, too:

Win Loss Database Sorted by Win Pct

Yours,
Ubergeek

The CHOKE of the MILLENIUM
 

Welcome back, str8.

Halloween
 

Toothbrushes are another good choice.

The CHOKE of the MILLENIUM
 

Hey, you don't have to forget the championships; they just don't hold as much weight as the most recent championship. They may be important to you. They may mean something to you. But this year's champ is Boston. It doesn't take anything away from the Yankees' legacy, but the Yankees' legacy didn't win this year.

Boston clearly isn't the better historical franchise, just like Florida State (or any other FL school) can't compete with ND's football legacy. Nevertheless, legacies are in the past. This is now. And what the Yankees did in the past doesn't mean shit right now. You may care about the past, but stating it right now just makes you sound bitter.


I don't hate them for the reasons you think I hate them. I was raised to hate them, before I knew about the economics of baseball. It was shoved into my brain by my grandfather and father, who had to watch my Sox come close throughout the '50s. Before divisions and wild cards. I've always hated them. When they were good. When they were terrible.

And your last sentence contradicts a previous sentence. The Yankees haven't always been successful. They sucked in the '80s. And I hated them then too.

Hey, I know what's like. All I have right now, as an ND fan, is "most successful college football program of all time". That's why ND and Yankees fans are so alike. They're both fucking ARROGANT. They look down their noses at other teams b/c no matter what those teams do, and no matter what the Yankees/ND are doing currently, they can never compete with their legacies.

I just recently attended the ND/BC game, where BC won. ND fans were pissed, but they weren't irate or anything. The ND fans, snobs through and through, just looked at the BC fans and thought "nice win, what the fuck has your school ever done? No matter what you do, you will never be us. Never. So have your fun. Enjoy it. But we're the best all-time, and you can't change that."

The CHOKE of the MILLENIUM
 

I don't like the DH either.

But I like the wild card. You can't tell me that the Yankees and Red Sox fans were less invested in the outcome of the AL East than they would have been without the wild card. And I don't think your victory is tainted at all.

And you have to admit, some of the best playoff series have been because of the wild card. Besides, you should be for it because it allows smaller market teams a better chance at making it to the Series. Boston, Oakland, Houston or Minnesota or whoever can get hot at the right time and they can take out anybody.

TM

Holy shit.
 

Jesus Christ, you are difficult.

I'll agree with what Tony LaRussa said last night after the game, and then leave it at that. The Red Sox made pitches and plays when they had to, and (with the exception of game 1, which LaRussa thought they were in a good spot to win) the Cardinals did not.

The Yankees, by contrast, showed up for the games they lost, with the possible exception of game 7.

The CHOKE of the MILLENIUM
 

For the record, I don't think Yankees fans are unbearable at all (unless the fan is a bandwagon fan). I hate the team (conceptually, not necessarily the players*), not the fans. Red Sox fans are 10X more unbearable.

*well, Jeter b/c he's so fucking overrated it's ridiculous.

Halloween
 

And, the leftovers are useful when you clean the spray paint off the driveway.