New York Subway War

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Imagine a seven game series with Sunderland, played almost daily over 10 days. The winner will most likely have bragging rights for 40-50 years since meeting in the final is a rare occurence.

The Mets and Yankees will battle to the finish starting saturday, I will be at game 4 at the Mets' Shea stadium a week from today.

It will sort of be like a civil war (a real one). Alot of action locally, people will get hurt both physically and otherwise. There won't be as much interest outside New York but everyone will know the outcome.

Even if you hate or don't understand baseball, if you dislike american sports or don't care: watch some of it and see if you can't soak up some of the passion. It is for this reason that I was turned on to EPL, Rangers-Celtic, and soccer in general.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

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The press are already at it. It's all about NY and how great they are, makes me ill just to think of all the gloating going on. Living in Chicago it is being treated with mild irritation probably fueled by envy since the cubs or sox will never meet anywhere near a pennant race. I'd like to see the mets win for the only reason that the Yankees are so arrogant they don't need anymore gloating rights.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

Not sure if they show "rounders" on the TV in little ol England?

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

GO YANKEES!!!!!

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

syme- sorry about the white sox, I thought for sure they would eliminate the yankees for once.

what is rounders?

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000


Rounders is the Uk name for baseball but here it is played by little schoolgirls and the only protective clothing they wear is a pair of navy blue cammie nickers.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000


What are Navy blue cammie nickers?

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

Rik, ask your Dad!

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

little schoolgirls play baseball in the USA as well. it just doesn't get any media coverage.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

Pete, I could give a flying F*** about them cheatin white sox gits, Cubs all the way my friend to close to supporting the toon to be anything else. Although having said that my ex wife is very good friends with the wife of Magglio Ordonoez, so I used to see alot of white sox games with the players and stuff and then go out for dinner with them after the game. In fact Roger Clemens told me to fuck off after his team got beat

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

It's too bad then how you feel about the sox v Cubs- the Cubs are going nowhere Syme. Is Ordonez' wife, you know, very hot looking? Sorry had to ask.

Roger Clemens is going to get his clock cleaned even if I have to do it myself.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000



You know what she isn't, she is kinda plain. Pretty face, some left over puppy fat, plus she has a three year old son and she is pregnant again, nice girl though doesn't speak any English. However here is a funny story. When we used to go out after a game she would only drink Budweiser, I used to get bottles of Brown Ale and now that is all she drinks Newcastle Brown ale. gotta love that, Magglio is a nice guy so is Carlos lee and Paul Konerko. Last year when the cubs played the sox Mags got us some tickets for the game. So there we are sitting amongst the players wifes and girlfriends and stuff (some really good looking stuck up women there mind you). He got me a signed All star baseball cap from his All star appearance. Nothing bad to say about him just a nice guy that makes way too much money. last year he bought a boat and asked me to sail it down to the caribean with him in the off season, of course I couldn't but what a story that would have been. You are right the cubs are shit but when the suns hot and you have a cold beer in your hands wrigley is the place to be.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

I'm missing something here, Magglio Ordonez askes you to sail the caribbean in the winter and you turned him down? Give him my email and ask him if he wants to see Greece. Seriously, he is a solid player and you are lucky to know him. The closest I get is I know (wink wink) Minnesota Twins utility player Denny Hocking's wife. When the Twins played the Yankees (losers) last year he got us tickets and I took him out for drinks. His wife convinced him to be baptized into the greek orthodox religion and his name is Dionysus!

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

Supporting the Yankees is like supporting ManUre. It simply isn't done. Supporting the other team from New York is like supporting Arsenal. A Plague and a Pox on all New York teams, no matter what the sport.

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

Hee hee. I can't bear baseball, but will be missing being in Boston. The radio and tv sports reporters will be falling over themselves complaing about the subway series. They've dreaded it for years. Even heard a DC or Baltimore(still haven't figured out which stations are from which city) dj complaining about the possibility the other day. I lived there in 86 when the Mets won the series and remember hearing all the cheering in the streets while I was sitting in a class. Can't imagine the local news there will talk about much else during the series. While I won't be watching any of the games, I will be interested to see the news to see if any little battles really do break out in NYC. :-)

-- Anonymous, October 18, 2000

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