Posted on 11/01/2001 12:38:32 PM PST by RooRoobird14
Gawleeee, I sure am glad them two boys working for the FOX Network, Joe Buck and Tim McCarver, is taking the time to educate us ignernt Phoenix fans about baseball, New York and C-ment ponds. A feller here told me that Buck and Tim must figure the onlyest reason Phoenix folks watched any of the World Series was to see if President George W. Bush might pause after throwing out the first ball to issue a pardon for one of our close relations.
(That did not happen, by the way.)
It has hardly been worth the effort to stretch an extension cord from the gas station out to our mobile home, then adjust the coat hanger on the TV in just the right way.
Tim and Buck spent much of the first game played in New York pointing out the particulars of Yankee Stadium. They said they figured some of us folks in the desert might never have seen nor heard tell of the place.
Buck and Tim even took a moment to remind us that Yankee Stadium don't have no C-ment pond, like our ball field in Phoenix. Which reminds me: Have any of y'all seen signs of the crick that feeds the pond in Bank One Ballpark? Cause I ain't.
Anyhoo, Buck and Tim has been real good about tellin' us how great them Yankees is. They even showed on TV the graveyard behind the fence at Yankee Stadium where they buried some gal named Ruth. Though they never did say what she done wrong to git herself buried in a ballpark instead of a proper cemetery.
Maybe she weren't a big enough Yankee fan, like Buck and Tim. Them two boys seems to love the Yankees more than we love guns, Hee Haw or prime time wrasslin'.
They make it sound like the Yankees all use golden gloves and (when Clemens is pitching) hurl lightning bolts, whilst our boys whittle their bats from fallen logs and fashion gloves outta stinkweed and duct tape.
One ol' boy in town tells me that Buck and Tim might not be feeling kindly towards Phoenix or the Diamondbacks on account of we wasn't hospitable enough to them and the other Easterners when the Yankees was here in the Valley.
He says we should of worked harder to make Buck and Tim feel more at home, maybe by digging some pot holes in the roads or having our sanitation workers pretend go out on strike. Or maybe we could've asked Arizona cabbies to charge Buck and Tim $300 to transport them from the airport to the wrong hotel.
If we'd done all that, perhaps the boys from the FOX network wouldn't be gnawing their way through our henhouse, so to speak.
Four whole games have come and gone in the series. I'd have wrote down these here impressions a lot sooner but my word processor was up on blocks and cousin Bubba from the computer lab was out huntin'.
In the meantime, folks back in New York been saying stuff like: There are ruts on the infield at BOB because they drag it with a plow. And: The only way Diamondbacks fans would get excited about the series is if Richard Petty was on their team.
(That last statement is absolutely false. We'd also get excited if Elvis was on our team.)
Still, try not to fret none. The fact is, we got some real fine broadcasters of our own. One goes by the name of Tom, though on account of we ain't too good at book learnin' in Arizona, he tends to spells it "Thom."
He gives the D-Backs their propers, however, which has a bunch of us headin' over to Wal-Mart to buy batteries for the transistor. We're watching the next ballgame on the radio.
Go ahead and flame away, Yankee fans!!! I can take it. And I'll be at BOB on Saturday, watching Randy Johnson mop the floor with a New Yawk mop head.
Go Diamondbacks!!!! LOLOLOLOL!!
Signed,
Heartbroken But Undeterred Diamondback Fan
How many times did they show the Yankee homeruns?...several times each..and how many times did they show the D's HR?...maybe twice.
the one-sided reporting is on the verge of being obscene..
GO DIAMONDBACKS.......and then refuse the duffuses in the TV box any interviews..
Heh heh heh. With any luck. I'm just sad they won't be in the Big Apple to clinch it.
Maybe the producer of the show instructed Joe and Tim what to say, but don't blame them for that.
In hindsight, Brenley probably should have let him start the 8th and then only took him out if he got into trouble.
As a Die-hard D-backs fan (I know, is that possible for a team that's only 4 years old) I'm still root, root, rooting for the Snakes, but it's obvious they've got a tougher road to travel now...
GO D-BACKS!!!!
GO DIAMONDBACKS!
The "ditto" family is also heartbroken and shares your pain! We set up a projection TV screen on our garage door last night and watched the game along with neighbors, friends and trick or treaters. I am still hoarse from cheering when the D-backs went ahead. And I think we'll all be holding our breath alot during tonight's game.
GO D-BACKS!!!
P.S. - to all D-Backs fans, the link below takes you to a "Beat the Yankees" poster you can download and print...
http://www.accessarizona.com/sports/baseball/poster.html
I hear those Yankee fans do rude things like throw beer on the opposing team fans, call them names, curse them, etc. (and that's when they're being nice--LOLOLOLOL!)
I think you're right. Schilling prepared himself to pitch this game on short rest. Although I know Kim felt terrible out there on the mound, when they would show Schilling sitting there in the dugout I could only think about how tough it must have been for him to keep himself together. Schilling is a helluva decent guy and a great athlete.
The game's on the field. It's a good series. Appreciate that.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.