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September 30, 2003
A Fine Start
The 2003 playoffs are off to a fine start with tonight's Yankees loss to the Twins, even if my predictions are looking pretty poor off the bat (1-3 tonight). But then, I'm praying I'm wrong about the Red Sox-Oakland series, and I wouldn't mind being wrong about the Yankees-Twins. Although it would be all the sweeter if the Red Sox could make it to the World Series by slaying the Yankees, the important thing is that the Yankees need to lose.
Doubtless that sounds like sour grapes, but let's face the facts: New York fans are spoiled rotten. They've won so often they see winning not as an accomplishment to be enjoyed, but as a birthright. If the Yankees are knocked out of the playoffs this year, especially either in the first round or by the Red Sox, New York will go nuts and Steinbrenner will almost certainly clean house, despite the Yankees amazing run of success over the past decade. That's spoiled, it's sorry, and the only way it will get any better is if the Yankees don't win anything for a while, so the fans can appreciate it when they win their next pennant. In, say, 2103.
Posted at September 30, 2003 10:34 PM
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Tracked on October 2, 2003 07:32 AM
Every year I tell myself I won't expend emotional energy hoping the Yankees lose, and (almost) every year I've failed and gotten sucked in at some point. (The only exception was in 1999, when I successfully ignored the whole season.)
I try to be logical: Major League Baseball is obviously a mechanism for awarding championships to the Yankees. The league is specifically designed to do specifically that one thing. Still, despite these enormous advantages in structure, the Yankees win only about one-third of the time.
Remember, the Yankees have won one-third of all AL pennants. One-third of the angels in heaven fell with Satan and became demons. Coincidence? I think not.
Posted by: IB Bill at October 2, 2003 07:58 AM
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