That would spook the Yankee batters but good! LOLOLOL!!!!
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.
I couldn't believe that Kevin Kennedy, who was a major league manager as recently as three years ago, asked Derek Jeter about "Yankee Mystique"! If anyone should know better than to peddle that crapola, it should be a guy who actually has run a ball club!
And who is the sub-genius at Fox who decided to always have a camera on Derek Jeter? The sucker not only wasn't pulling his weight in the Series until last night, he wasn't even hitting it, but every time a Yank hit the ball out of the yard, drove in a run with a base hit, sacrifice flied, or was safe at home on an error, there was the inevitable Fox replay of Derek Jeter's Official Facial Response To The Yankees Scoring like his reaction from the dugout meant jack squat!
Next to a championship that is decided by a vote rather an a tournament -- the reason why I refuse to acknowledge the existence of Division 1-A college football until they have a legitimate playoff system -- nothing takes the fun out of sports more than people who rush to be the first to tell us that a team can't be beat -- even when it turns out to be true. Shut Ya Stuff Up!
Thats a load of affirmitive-action nonsense. Just the kind of "level the playing feild" attitude that brings America into the muck of mediocrity.
If the Yanks are good enough to win it TEN Million times, so be it.
Go Yankees!
The mojo is working. Can you feel it?
That would spook the Yankee batters but good! LOLOLOL!!!!
If you have been a Phoenix baseball fan for many years, you know that the Giants AAA farm club was there for decades before MLB awarded the city a franchise of its own. You have seen over the years Bob Brenly and Matt Williams and third base coach Chris Speier come up through the ranks to reach the frozen Mecca that was Candlestick Park (no, I don't call it 3Com Park). Giants fans recognize coach Bob Melvin as the catcher that platooned with Brenly during the late eighties.
Then there is the occasional bench coach, and the guru of the split-fingered fastball, Roger Craig, who has a special place in the hearts of diehard Giants fans. He is the only manager to bring a National League pennant (1989) to San Francisco since 1962. I saw my first Giants game in 1972, the year they traded Willie Mays for minor-league stiffs and cash. It wasn't until Craig's second year at the helm in 1987 -- when they won the National League West -- could I call the Giants champions of anything.
Bob Brenly was one of my fave Giants players, and since he couldn't catch the last strike of the World Series, I hope he can drink the champagne along with the guy who does.
Poster is posting dirty pictures!
Also recall they said every park should have a pool, didn't sound like bad mouthing to me, sounded more like they thought that was one of the most bizaarly brilliant ideas they'd ever seen. Part of the very interesting contrast in this series. On one side we have the Yanks, one of the oldest and clearly the most successful franchise in baseball, and on the other side the D-Back a franchise so new the shine hasn't worn off of anything in their park, and one that is currently on track to be a very successful franchise (World Series in 4 years, and not a rental job like the accursed Marlins).
Everything about these clubs is the opposite: sides of the country, politics of the city, weather, age, history, style of ball park. Everything except that they both have good pitching, weak offense and, oh yeah, they're in the World Series together. They should talk about that. In a game that moves as slowly as baseball you've got to put in a lot of filler banter. And this series has a lot of filler banter bait. But if anybody is thinking that's condescending I think you need to get your ears checked. They might be a little in awe of the Yanks, but it's hard not to be in awe of the championship winningest franchise in north American sports history, that's playing in an ancient stadium, that actually doesn't suck (so many places get "old stadium syndrome" at 1/3 the age of that park, it's really quite impressive that it's so cool).
I also grew weary in games 1 & 2 of the highest paid team in MLB behaving so childishly at the plate. The overpaid bigapple bozos should give the whining a rest. Again, Jeter is an exception and is therefore exempt from this rant.
Hahahaha!
Hey, I'm rethinking my strategy anyway. I figure it may make the Yankee batters mad to see her in a Yankee cap and they may want to hit that way.
A move to the on-deck circle might be better to psych them out!
P.S. Posting those pics I admit was dirty, but we underdogs have to fight dirty sometimes to win. LOL!
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