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The Empire Strikes Bagel

by: JimC

Wed Oct 28, 2009 at 14:56:32 PM EDT


Yankees in six.

There, I said it.

I am reliably informed that our friend Jon Bresler has called this "the bagel and cream cheese World Series." That strikes me as apt, because, tempting as it is, it seems pretty futile to root for the cream cheese over the bagel.

My personal, perhaps less futile, hope is that Pedro Martinez shuts down the Yankees for a little while.

O my brother, do you know the Savior,
Who is wondrous kind and true?
He's the "Rock of your salvation!"
There's Honey in the Rock for you.

Refrain:
Oh, there's Honey in the Rock, my brother,
There's Honey in the Rock for you;
Leave your sins for the blood to cover,
There's Honey in the Rock for you.

Have you "tasted that the Lord is gracious,"
Do you walk in the way that's new?
Have you drunk from the living Fountain?
There's Honey in the Rock for you.

Refrain

Do you pray unto God the Father,
"What wilt Thou have me to do?"
Never fear, He will surely answer,
There's Honey in the Rock for you.

Refrain

Then go out through the streets and byways,
Preach the Word to the many or few;
Say to every fallen brother,
There's Honey in the Rock for you.

Refrain

This is an open thread.
 

JimC :: The Empire Strikes Bagel
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Good idea (0.00 / 0)
A sound strategy which could not possibly go wrong: targeting the most reliable voters ... and alienating them.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo...



Don't count the Phillies out... (4.00 / 4)
They're a scrapple bunch.

Just remembered my other point (0.00 / 0)
Eddie Izzard says we shouldn't call it the "World" Series, because only we play it.

Well, I like Eddie Izzard, but he's wrong. It IS the World Series. Sorry Japan.


In a perfect world, Pedro will win Games 2 and 7. (4.00 / 2)


"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

keep dreaming n/t (0.00 / 0)


Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ~ Mark Twain

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A summer memory (4.00 / 4)
A rare trek to the local pool. I spot a guy playing with his son.

Me: You know, you can have that removed.

Guy (pointing to his forehead): The scar?

Me: The Yankee tattoo.


As Red Sox fans, of course, (4.00 / 3)
we are now rooting for the Yankees. They won the American League primary and we will be a united league for the general !

(What's that? I hear some PUMAs out there.)


Just leave it Spaceman Bill Lee to tell it like it is... (4.00 / 1)

"You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees."


get outta heyah - don't drink the Haterade (0.00 / 0)
no bad blood between Philly and NY...its like the 6th Borough

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ~ Mark Twain

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A-Fraud = 7 strikeouts (0.00 / 0)
Steroids can make you hit the ball farther, but not if you don't make contact.

:)


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Since this is an open thread, (4.00 / 1)
let me recommend:

https://www.safelinkwireless.c...

and for an explanation at length:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/...


Best fan sign ever (4.00 / 3)
In order to think this is funny, you need to know two things:

1. Larry Lucchino once called the Yankees an "Evil Empire."

2. In a rare moment of self-doubt, Pedro Martinez once said something to the effect of, "Maybe it's time to call the Yankees my Daddy."

Hence -- this. (There was also a more elaborate version that I couldn't find.)


Hah! (4.00 / 1)
PEDRO!

"But, in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope." Si se puede. Yes we can.  

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Actually JimC.... (4.00 / 2)

The best fan sign I remember was during the 1999 ALCS between the Red Sox and the Yankees. I remember a Yankees fan holding up a sign that said:

"The Babe Ruth curse is Y2K complaint."

I didn't like it, but it still made me LOL!  


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Shield law debate (0.00 / 0)
Arlen Specter is for it, the White House is against it.

http://www.npr.org/templates/s...

I lean against it, because I think no law means no law, but I could be convinced. And I HATE the "national security" argument.


As a native of NY State ...... (4.00 / 3)
... who grew up rooting for the Mets and the Red Sox - I always cheer on the opponent of the Bronx Bombers. Here are five reasons why:

1.  George Steinbrenner
2.  Do
3.  you
4.  need
5.  another?!?


 "We should pay attention to that man behind the curtain."


A pitch just above the ankles (0.00 / 0)
Knocked almost 400 feet.


Pedro is through.n/t (4.00 / 1)


Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ~ Mark Twain

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4'd for chutzpah (4.00 / 1)
Not sentiment!

I thought Burnett looked erratic. But history is written.

Though the future remains unwritten ...


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curveball was unhittable (0.00 / 0)
Phillies pitching falls off fast after Lee...I am sticking with your 4-2   Yankees in 6!

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ~ Mark Twain

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especially if Lee does not have an all out masterful performance (4.00 / 1)
Cliff Lee was unbeLEEvable the other night.
Hats off to him. I hope he goes down hard tonight.


http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/...
snip
"What he did -- that's not easy to do against any team, much less this team," said Phillies reliever Scott Eyre, after Lee's latest October masterpiece -- and a couple of Chase Utley Bronx rockets -- had finished carrying the Phillies to a stunning 6-1 Game 1 win over CC Sabathia and the Yankees. "But especially in this park."

Right. Especially. Nobody had ever done to the Yankees in this park what Cliff Lee did to them in Game 1 of this World Series. You can spell that N-O-B-O-D-Y.
During their entire first regular season at the new Yankee Stadium, the Yankees never once allowed any opposing pitcher to march into the Bronx, go all nine innings and hold them without an earned run.

But then again, you could argue that they'd never met up all year with a pitcher on the kind of roll Lee has been on this October -- a roll as historic as it is downright spectacular.He now has made four starts in this postseason -- the first four postseason starts of his career. In every one of them, he has gone at least seven innings and given up one earned run or none.

In the history of baseball, only one other starting pitcher ever started his postseason career with four starts like that -- a Hall of Famer named Christy Mathewson, who did it as recently as a century ago (in 1905-11). Meanwhile, Lee has now pitched 33 1/3 innings in his postseason career -- and given up a total of two earned runs. Two. That computes to a ridiculous 0.54 ERA.

This will be a great game. The Yankees can erase a lot of the sting of the past few years slide, with a victory over a pitcher who must be considered among the very best to pitch in the post season. The catch he made behind his back of a hard bouncing grounder was beyond the pale. Michael Jordan territory. Maybe he'll come to Earth with the pressure of a must win ?


Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. ~ Mark Twain


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May 19th@ New England College!

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