October 18, 200322 yr I was going thru my scrapbook yesterday when I came across a column by Rochester D&C writer Bob Lonsberry. It was from back in '92, when the Bills were playing the Cowboys in the Super Bowl. As I read thru it, it struck me that this column could be applied to this year's World Series. All you had to do was replace "Bills" with "Marlins" and "Cowboys" with "Yankees". This is the column, after I replaced a few terms to make it relevent for baseball: Some hard words for Marlins' critics Here's my message to the sportswriter's of America: Kiss my hairy Florida backside. Take your simpering little moron columns, with all your cute talk about the World Series and your rock-head opinions about the Florida Marlins, and stick them up your (expletive). I'm tired of listening to you idiots. There is going to be a World Series this week, and two teams will meet to decide the championship of professional baseball. And those two teams will be there because they earned the right. Not because it makes you happy. Maybe you want prettier teams, maybe you want more glamorous teams, maybe you want teams that will be easier to write about. But that's not what you got. What you got was the best teams. You understand how this works, don't you? They have a playoff in the two leagues. Teams either win or go home. If you're left standing at the end of the fracas, you get a trip to the big blowout called the World Series. Repeat after me: New York and Florida. You can't have the Red Sox and you can't have the Cubs. They lost. This game is about winning. And Florida earned the right to play it. So don't give me any (expletive) about th '97 team being mercenaries, the attendance, Bartman, or any other of this garbage you wipe off your chin and call journalism. Just send your stories back to Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and Minnesota and don't forget your teams are losers, sitting off in whatever hole you go to when you don't have the goods to make the World Series. Leave the trash-talking to the fans who have earned the right to dish it out. (from here, insert a bunch of Yankees jokes). See, I can say that because I have a team in the World Series. But the rest of these columnists should just go home and shut their (expletive) mouths. One other thing: Go Marlins! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just something I got a kick out of, and thought I'd share it with you guys.
October 19, 200322 yr Uh, we better not have the same result as the Bills did that year...you remember that, right? Good post though Gee - we few hardcore fans, and we know who we are, know this team is more than deserving. They are playing the way we envisioned. This team is too damn good to not exceed expectations - they've been doing it all year.
October 19, 200322 yr I'm already a very satisfied customer no matter how they do from here on out. That sure makes it easy to cheer them on. Remember we were arguing about contraction, moving the team, etc a few months ago.
October 20, 200322 yr Author Uh, we better not have the same result as the Bills did that year...you remember that, right? Good post though Gee - we few hardcore fans, and we know who we are, know this team is more than deserving. They are playing the way we envisioned. This team is too damn good to not exceed expectations - they've been doing it all year. Yeah, the Bills......aaargh. I'm glad I was too young to remember much about those games and how the media reacted. I'd probably be scarred for life.
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