Baseball as in Life

'How can you cheer for the Yankees?'

'I don't know.'

'But you hate the Yankees!'

'Yeah.'

'I remember you turning completely red and storming off last year, not even watching the rest of the eighth, when Little left Martinez in. When it was so obvious that he was losing his stuff. Even before Jeter doubled.'

'Yeah. I was pissed. It wasn't rocket science. When they start consistently hitting the ball hard, when every ball is hit hard, even if its to the left fielder and you get a couple outs like Martinez did in the 7th, its over. You get him out.' 'But now you're cheering for them? You couldn't even cheer for them against the Marlins last year. And you hated the Marlins. Thought they had no business being there, and you still couldn't cheer for the Yankees.' 'Yeah, I know.'

'I don't understand you. And now you're sitting here in front of the TV rooting for Derek Jeter when he's standing there at the plate with that smug little smile cuz he knows damn well the odds and the dollars are in his favour even if he goes down on 3 pitches. I'd like to see him smugly going down 0-2 on every count while losing with the Diamondbacks.'

'Me too.'

'Then why are you cheering for him? For all of them. You cheer for the underdog. Not the stacked, mercenary, all star team. Its like cheering for the Contras.'

'Yeah, I know.'

'So why then?'

'I think the world right now deserves the Yankees.'

- posted by Sigurd10/15/2004 11:38:00 PM