ogre@mhuxl.UUCP (LO COCO) (05/30/85)
> Go Sox! Go Tigers! Go O's! Go Jays! ANYONE but the Yankees. Sorry, guess I'm > not exactly neutral either. Typical fan: You can either root for the Yankees or against them. Why not pick a team that wins and jump on the bandwagon. Oh well this comes from always being a Yankee fan and I detest anyone that roots against a team rather than for a team. As much as I dislike the team that comes from Boston I don't root against them, and when they make the World Series, I root for them in vain. When the h**l are they going to win one again. Here's to a team emerging from the AL East that wins the World Series like the last two years in a row. For a while there I thought they were leaving it up to the Yankees to do it. -- John B. Lo Coco (...mhuxl!ogre) (...szuxn!ogre) 1-201-467-7436
woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) (06/04/85)
> Oh well this comes from always being a Yankee fan and I detest > anyone that roots against a team rather than for a team. > As much as I dislike the team that comes from Boston I don't root > against them, and when they make the World Series, I root for them The major difference between the Yankees (or Cubs, Dodgers, and Braves, for that matter) is that I'M SICK OF SEEING THEM. They get *way* more coverage than they deserve, just because they are from New York (or on cable, or from LA, or on cable, respectively). That does not apply to the Red Sox. --Greg -- {ucbvax!hplabs | allegra!nbires | decvax!noao | harpo!seismo | ihnp4!noao} !hao!woods CSNET: woods@NCAR ARPA: woods%ncar@CSNET-RELAY "...I may not be right but I've never been wrong It seldom turns out the way it does in the song..."
jeff@utastro.UUCP (Jeff Brown the Scumbag) (06/04/85)
(Break out your fire extinguishers, folks: flame ahead.) > The major difference between the Yankees (or Cubs, Dodgers, and Braves, for > that matter) is that I'M SICK OF SEEING THEM. They get *way* more coverage > than they deserve, just because they are from New York (or on cable, or from > LA, or on cable, respectively). RIGHT ARM, BROTHER!!! I am VERY tired of seeing nothing but the New York- L.A.-Chicago teams on the tube. One can (and I have!) predicted which games NBC will show successfully for the first half of the season just by going through the schedule and picking out the big media center games, plus (just as an admission of reality) throw in whoever made the playoffs last year. The only time you go wrong is when the network gets a night game rescheduled to the afternoon! I'm convinced that it just about broke their hearts last year when they had to break down and show Minnesota once or twice because they were in a pennant race. I'm perhaps more sensitive than others to this because I'm actually a Seattle fan (no greater futility exists, except maybe falling in love with a lesbian) and I see a Mariner in a game on TV exactly once a year (the token everybody gets in the All-Star game); the last time the M's were on TV here in Austin was in late August, 1978. A team which is not the Yanks/Mets/Dodgers/Angels/Cubs/WhiteSox almost literally has to get to first place and stay there a month (preferably September!) to be seen anywhere but on their own networks. Seriously, I suppose I deserve what I (don't!) get if I'm irrational enough to root for Seattle. But there are a total of 26 major league teams, and it's too bad you only ever see ten or so of them. Jeff Brown the Scumbag Astronomy Dept., U of Texas {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!jeff