World Series Boycott: Day IV

[bluestateguy]

Busy, busy, busy...grading exams, doing errands and making dinner.

Late tonight I'll be watching Ken Burns: Baseball, Part IV. This World Series is of no interest to me, and if the Yankees go up 3-1 today, the ratings will plummet tomorrow. Ask any FOX executive and he or she will tell you that they wanted either a Cubs-Red Sox World Series or a World Series with one of those two teams. So did the majority of the American people.

[donotpassgo]

1. obviously the Sox and Cubs didn't want a WS berth bad enough...

I'd rather have the best teams win...than the second best teams fans bitch about how the high the ratings would have been if their guys were just a bit better.

[sleipnir]

4. Yep, IMO the two best teams are playing, it's a great series....

[1a2b3c]

2. Fuck the Yankees.

[trumad]

3. Ask any sour graper why they continue to be jerks

well after their team has lost and they'll look at you with a stupid grin!

[1a2b3c]

5. umm

Fuck the Yankees. My team is the Mariners first and anyone but the Yankees second.

[bluestateguy]

8. I'd root for the DODGERS before I root for the Yankees!

And for an A's fan still pained by Kirk Gibson and Orel Hershiser from 1988, that is saying a lot.

[SiobhanClancy]

16. Why do the guys whose teams won...

continue to be jerks and keep responding to the guys whose teams didn't win? Enquiring minds want to know:)

[joeybee12]

6. Hooray! I was waiting for this thread

Tell me, if the Yankee fans are such big fans, why do they have time to post to this? Why aren't they glued to their sets???????

[donotpassgo]

9. at work with the radio on.

[fishnfla]

11. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

nice catch bro!

[donotpassgo]

12. no problem...I hope for a good game tonight...win or lose.

See Sox fans winners are gracious...in victory or defeat.

[Systematic Chaos]

7. I would have become a "fan for life" of baseball

had the Cubs and Red Sox made it in this year. I think that would have been the most awesome thing to happen in not just baseball, but all of sports, in a LONG time.

But, as it stands, I couldn't care one iota about this year's WS and come next year I won't bother to follow the season at all unless either the Cubs or Sox are on top of their division again.

[donotpassgo]

10. so you don't care about the game...

just what story would get the highest ratings?

[LisaM]

13. Yes, I think it's wonderful when the same team always wins

It makes it so much fun for the rest of us. I really regret the 75% of the World Series the Yankees didn't win. How awful that must have been for them and for their fans.

[bluestateguy]

14. just imagine Joe Buck and Tim McCarver calling it this way...

"The first World Championship for the New York Yankees since 2000! The 3 year wait comes to an end!"

[stopbush]

15. Eveyone else is watching the WS...

Hollywood Reporter: Top shows in total viewers
1.
Fox MLB ALCS Game 7
2.
Fox MLB NLCS Game 7
3.
"CSI," CBS
4.
Fox World Series Game 2
5.
Fox MLB NLCS Game 6
6.
"Survivor: Pearl Islands," CBS
7.
"Everybody Loves Raymond," CBS
8.
Fox World Series Game 1
9.
"CSI: Miami," CBS
10.
Fox MLB ALCS Game 4

[joeybee12]

17. No, everyone was watching the league championships!

There's a difference!

[Deja Q]

18. Could this be CONTRIVED?

http://www.on-this-day.com/onthisday/docs/assorted/worldseries.htm

The Yankees seem to have quite the winning streak... :tinfoilhat:

[DrBB]

19. There's a World Series on? Huh.

Yankees playing some team nobody gives a shit about, yeah? I think I heard something about it. Who'd want to watch that? What a snore.