God damn it. The LEAST the Yankees could do was win the damned thing

[WilliamPitt]

:grr:

The Red Sox beat the Marlins so badly in the regular season that we had to APOLOGIZE the next day for running up the score. I think it was 24-5.

What bullshit. Oh you Yankee motherfuckers, wait until next year.

No, I'm not sorry. American League allegiance can kiss my ass. You were out of your league in this series. You were out of your league in the ALCS. One manegerial decision and the Sox are celebrating a championship now while the Yankees are on their second week of tee times.

Yeah. I'm bitter.

[w13rd0]

1. They didn't really want it...

...just wanted to mess with you i'm sure...

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. As a Cubs fan....

....I also am bitter, and have been for a week and a half now. Go Yankees!

[fishnfla]

6. ?

? Go yankees? breaking news, they lost.

[SiobhanClancy]

8. I'm bitter,too

It's hard for me to get over it,but I can't really blame the Yankees for the fact that Pedro Martinez was managing for the Red Sox in our last game.

[greatauntoftriplets]

15. Yes, Siobhan,

it has been very, very difficult for us. We were soooo close we could almost taste it.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. The Sox were the better AL team this year

Torre knows they escaped certain death thanks to Grady's blowing Game 7. Oh well. Good for the Marlins- they now are at 40% of the Sox' total WS wins!

[diplomats]

4. Hey, Will

my team, the Phillies, was vying with the Marlins for the wildcard until they looked pathetic getting swept by them the last week of the season.

[gyopsy]

5. Marlins ROCK!

I can't feel sorry for the Yankees. I felt for the Indians when we beat them back in 1997 bk they wanted it so bad and had never won before.

You Yankees fans. Weren't their 4 WS wins in the last 7 years good enough for you??

[WilliamPitt]

7. Me = not a Yankee fan

[Blitz]

9. The fact that they beat the Sox

and didn't even give the Sox the right to say that they lost to the eventual champs really took the sting out of this loss for me. Yeah, we lost. That's awful. But we beat the Sox and we'll be playing for it again next year.

[lynndew2]

23. I am always happy when the yankees lose

My brother is a yankees fan, me royals. He moved to NY and decided to root for the team that spends the most $$$. Good Ridance YANKEES!!!!!!!!! Whooohoooo

[markses]

19. Never good enough for winners

;-)

One more! One more ! One more!

Nice job, Florida!

[DivinBreuvage]

24. Thanks for a classy post, gyopsy

I'll never forget the sad, barely-comprehending look of puppy dog confusion on Señor Choke's face when he realized that he'd just blown the whole freaking enchilada.

Françoise

[aquart]

10. Florida team wins?

Jeb Bush triumphs.

Oh, goody.

[gyopsy]

11. That's nonsense

I HOPE you're kidding. The Florida Marlins stand for a small-market, underdog team that wins through hard work and effort and a payroll that is significantly lower than their opponents.

Sounds nothing like the Bush crime family to me! :)

[Blitz]

12. U.S. team wins = George Bush triumphs?

I guess you're rooting for the Jays and Expos, right? I mean, that's the only way your post makes any sense at all.

[Crewleader]

13. Hey Don't Forget The Florida Democrats...

who happen to be great supporters of the Marlins, we are proud! :-)

[TSIAS]

26. Miami/Dade went for Gore in 2000

In all honestly, a majority of the rich baseball players likely lean GOP. It's not like the Marlins players are actually from the state.

[Crewleader]

37. They started out playing ball in Melbourne, Fl.

just down the street from me...we would catch all the games and still do The Manatees' minor league, big disappointment when they went south, but they still are our only Florida's Baseball Team,
The Marlins!

Sarge is thrill they won...a true Florida Boy..who played on the Little League Team The Marlins and he was still rooting for them when I was rooting for Boston. We are happy they won...I would of been torn and had to cheer my Red Sox.

William. I read your post on Bill Buckner happily living in Idaho, good for him and forgeting his error...he sure did bring Sarge in this world two weeks earlier, he was supposed to be the second week in November but now that I think about it, I can't believe I watch the World Series in 1986 in my 9th month...but you know one Red Sox fan to another...we support and cheer on the home team!
If it wasn't for Boone's homerun...the Red Sox showed themselves as the better team this year, no guestion about it.

I like your spirits William...may be the Red Sox next year! :hug:

[Uzybone]

39. Wrong

most pro athletes (MLB,NBA,NFL) lean Democrat. They were not always millionaires, and not all new millionaires change thier stripes.

[villager]

14. A Marlins victory seems like...

...a complete waste of a baseball season. Of course, Marlins/Yankees was the least interesting combination possible from the post-season field... Well, at least the playoffs were full of suspense...

Yeah, my avatar gives me away (but they weren't the only team I liked in postseason) -- I'll be retiring it tomorrow, I guess, and waiting for spring training!

[FDRrocks]

32. I thought it was a wonderful WS...

Was it game 4 that they went 12 innings? Did you watch that? Yankees in the 11th inning with bases loaded and one out? That was freaking good baseball. And Beckett didn't impress me in the last game he had played, but tonite, he was so great. I feel good for the kid, got a 5 hit night and personally delivered the last out. It is probably the greatest day of that kids life.

[bluestateguy]

16. I know the feelings: A's vs. Red Sox

Why did the Red Sox squander their victory over the A's? That did them no good at all. My pain over the A's losing that series would have been eased had the Red Sox beaten the Yankees, but as usual they blew it. Yes, I know the A's blew this, the A's blew that. I know and I don't care. The A's have three world championships (1972-74, and again in 1989) in a row and nobody can ever take that away from them. Never. In any event, while the Marlins won their championship fair and square, I think many baseball fans are getting fed up with Yankee domination in October.

[Blitz]

17. Mostly, people are fed up with

whiners. You could learn something about being a fan, both in good times and bad, from the Yankee fans who post here.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

20. That's funny, Blitz

because I saw a lot of unsportsmanlike behavior from the Yankee fans who post here. Maybe you guys could learn something from Joe Torre. He is a real class act. The Yankees are lucky to have such a grounded, classy manager.

[SiobhanClancy]

21. Just imagine what Joe is going through now...

listening to Steinbrenner rant and rave.

[Blitz]

22. I saw one person

out of many who went somewhat overboard. Everybody else acted decent, if passionate, in both victory and defeat.

[bluestateguy]

25. You should have seen the Yankee fans I went to college with

The most obnoxious, unsportsmanlike people I have ever met. Sore winners and sore losers. When 12 year old Jeffrey Maier helped the Yankees CHEAT in the 1996 playoffs this kid was hailed by Yankee fans, and their eastern media lapdogs, as a hero. I have no beef with Torre, who I think is basically a good person, though let's just wait and see how "The Boss" treats his manager now that his team has not won the World Series in GASP! THREE YEARS!

[markses]

18. Shit, as a Yankees fan I'm just happy we roasted the Sox ass

Would have liked to see us win the series, but, y'know, whatever. We'll have another shot sooner or later.

Oh, but that 8th inning last Thursday...Oh, but that Boone homer! Sweet October, in any case!

Congrats, Marlins. Sweet ball, Florida!

[5thGenDemocrat]

27. I'm a Detroit Tiger fan, loyal unto death

So I can afford to say "Congratulations, Marlins...fine season, Yankees (okay, that second one was tough), and great playoff season all the way around." Unless I'm mistaken, both the Yankees and the Marlins won more games in the playoffs than the Tigs did all year.
Being a Tig fan is like being the parent of ugly, untalented kids...you still gotta love 'em anyhow. There's always next season -- maybe we'll only lose 118 games.
John
Whose sister lives in Fort Myers and called me eight seconds after the game ended to gloat.

[bluestateguy]

28. I should not have beat up on the Tigers the way I did

That was wrong of me when I mocked the Tigers on this board for being a losing team. I apologize.

Though I think the Yankees with their 27 World Championships can handle criticism, mockery and outright hatred from me.

[5thGenDemocrat]

30. Oh, I don't mind that they're a losing team

I just mind that they've been a losing team for eleven consecutive seasons.
Plus, my high school football team sucks (1-7), my college football team sucks (1-6), my local hockey team sucks (3-8-1-1) and the Lions suck (1-5). But, yeah, I suspect you're right about the Yankees. With their success, they probably aren't paying you no nevermind.
John
Remember, we Tiger fans are HARD-WIRED to hate the Yankees. It's in our DNA. Still, it was a great post-season all the way around.

[VermontDem2004]

31. Who is your college football team?

[5thGenDemocrat]

33. Central Michigan University

Chip-POOOO-Wah!!
Lately, it's been more of a basketball school. The number six pick in last year's NBA draft, Chris Kaman, is from there, as were NBA all-stars Dan Roundfield and Dan Majerle. Our most famous football player was probably Gary Hogeboom (late of the Dallas Cowboys).
John
But, as long as we can beat Western Michigan, the season won't be a total loss.

[salmonhorse]

29. Yankees Suck Dew'd!!!

Oh sure, you can show up...but you have to be willing to play the freaking game. Big ole bad-ass Yankee' fat paycheck carrying mo fo'z my ass.

[Hogarth]

34. I became "luke-warm" to sports years ago ...

... before teams were named after fish. Marlins? What the--

For the first time in years I watched the playoffs because the Cubs looked like they might have a chance. It was exciting, but ultimately it was a downer as they lost in extra innings. That was when I quit watching, and had no interest in the World Series afterward.

I could have watched the Red Sox, but Yankees and Marlins?

What started off as good entertainment just fizzled for me when that fan robbed the Cubs of a win.

So the Marlins won it all? Still I ask, what the hell is a Marlin? I guess I've been away from sports for too many years

[MaidinVermont]

35. Congrats Marlins

The Sox or the Yanks don't suck but they did perform less than the Marlin champs.

Too much, too soon, too far to go, too late to play
The game is over

So here I am once more
In the playground of the broken hearts
I’m losing on the swings
I’m losing on the roundabouts
The game is over

Yet another emotional suicide
Overdosed on sentiment and pride
The game is over

Too late to say I love you
Too late to restage the play
The game is over

I act the role in classic style
Of a martyr carved with twisted smile
To bleed the lyric for this song
To write the rites to right my wrongs
An epitaph to a broken dream
To exercise this silent scream
A scream that’s born from sorrow

I never did write that lovesong
The words just never seemed to flow
Now sad in reflection did I gaze through perfection
And examine the shadows on the other side of morning
Promised wedding now a wake, awake

The fool escaped from paradise
Will look over his shoulder and cry
Sit and chew on daffodils and struggle to answer "why? "
As you grow up and leave the playground
Where you kissed your prince and found your frog
Remember the jester that showed you tears, the script for tears

So I’ll hold our peace forever when you wear your bridal gown
In the silence of my shame the mute that sang the sirens’ song
has gone solo in the game, but the game is over

Can you still say you love me
The jester’s tear
Do you love me?

[trumad]

36. Dear Mr. Pitt,

I recall my Phins spanking your Pat's in regular season the year your Pat's won the Superbowl... Point....Just cause you when a game against a team in regular season don't mean your the best team.... I've seen teams get spanked by 20 runs one game and then come back and beat the same team the next night...

[FlyByNight]

38. Congrats to the Marlins...

and their fans. The Marlins' win isn't a fluke. Since May, they've had the best record in the Majors I believe.

Honestly, I lost interest after the ALCS. I'm a Sox fan and I didn't even root against the Yankees - I simply didn't care. Just too damn depressed I guess: another spectacular, train-wreck-in-slow-motion loss, to those damn Yankees no less. It left me drained.

That being said, I'm satisfied that the Yanks lost. Then again the Marlins have won two more WS Championships than the Red Sox since '97 (I think) and even longer than that (since '18).

What's the over-under on the number of firings that'll go down in NY?

[pmbryant]

40. The Marlins were clearly the best team in the post-season

And that includes the Red Sox, no matter how badly the Red Sox may have beaten them several months ago.

The Marlins beat 2 100-win teams soundly, and the Cubs when down 3-1 to win this thing.

They were the best team and they deserve this championship.

:thumbsup:

--Peter

[Emboldened Chimp]

41. No way, Pitt

The Yanks beat the Sox fair and square, as you said to similar effect after the ALCS. And even if the Sox got in, that doesn't mean you would've won. Woulda, coulda, shoulda.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

42. Yanks got lucky with a bad decision by Grady Little. The Yanks Got One Hit

off our set-up guy Timlin in the whole series. Had Pedro left the game, I think it was the Sox to win.

There's always next year. I'm sure ole Steinbrenner will clean house and spend big bucks on some young talent that no other team can afford to replace his aging roster.

[HuckleB]

43. One or even three games in mid-season don't mean a thing.

The Marlins had the best record in baseball since early May. They beat everyone that came their way fair and square. Good for them. They are better than the Yankees at this moment in time. They are the best team in baseball at this moment in time. And that's all that matters.

Congratulations to the Marlins!