Yankees vs. Mets
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by user Manny Stiles
Like day to night, like hours to seasons...change is good. I like the new format - not just change for change's sake, but actual seemingly significant changes and embiggenings to the site! plus, it will cutdown on endless threads of blah-blah-blah comments and make better "journalists" out of us all yet!
That'll weed out the yappers - the Stiles' and the P Gnatts of the world... watch out LastRow! With upgrades like this, the ticket prices will be goin' up, too!!!
Who are Worse?
Yankees Fans or Mets Fans
Article Statements by Manny Stiles -
Article A)
There are so many quality sports fans and knowledgable, dedicated and properly seasoned baseball fans in New York. Believe me, I know who you are; this is NOT about you...
Article A1)
New York, as a town... I love ya! Your residents are whacked/cracked out but it's not your fault, you're still a fine town. This is NOT about you, New York. As long as someone's talking about you, you're happy.
Article B)
There are no louder people on earth (not even the FreekyWiki Tribe from Tanzaniki) than people from the 5 boroughs. Each area of New York has it's own qualities and random variations yet still authentically New York (not exceedingly far from Professional Baseballs roots) and the National League's New York Gothams/Giants and the Brooklyn Atlantics/Grays/Grooms/Bridegrooms/Superbas/Robins/Dodgers.
New York has ALL of baseball history around it.
Article C)
While both are New Yorkian, Yankees fans hate Mets fans like little brothers that are starting to grow up as big as they are, and Mets fans laugh at stupid loudermouthed Yankees fans for pretending to be Rangers fans, too..
Article D)
Yankees fans say "Stats don't matter! Throw the stats out... Ya gotta have intangibles! Like Montana, like Jordan. You gotta be a winner!"
Educated Mets fans say "We have the best shortstop in New York"
Manny Stiles says "What were Michael Jordan's and Joe Montana's stats like, anyway? Ever notice that Gatorade commercial?
What happened after those moments?
Jordan went on and won a title after his highlight, Montana won a Super Bowl after "the Catch... Jeter helped his team maintain a tie score to eventually win a game that made it 2-1 in the ALDS against the LOSER A's, then the Captain helped lose a game 7 that SAME year to an expansion team of aging free agents, BTW- THEN lost a SEVEN game series after being up 3-0 AND other particular events to team THE YANKEES HAD NEVER LOST A PLAYOFF SERIES TO, yet no one calls the Yankees "Losers", do they?"
Stiles then continues... "Montana and Jordan's higlights come when they WON, they were winners. Jeffrey Maier, an 8 strikeout, 1 RBI WS.MVP a guy who didn't slide (Jeremy Giambi) and a midnight Homer off of Yum-Yum Kim (when he had a giant chopstick forked into his back) in a losing cause is what made Derek Jeter a star..."
Then Stiles wraps it up by saying... "He goes 5-5 and he's Jesus: Part Two. He had ONE after the fact rbi, a caught stealing, 2 highlight defensive plays that anyone else would make routine... on and on Jeter is special, he has ice in his veins, he isn't afraid to fail"
"Popout to catcher on a bunt... this ain't PRACTICE, this is baseball FUNDAMENTALS, 3 lob (same as Sacrificial Fly Lamb AWOL Alex R.), oh... and an error that "should have been a hit"...
To say "throw out the stats" is only proof of ignorance. Historical data is how we measure a meager semblance of a person's playing averages. Oh, yeah... Jordan, Montana, even Mark Messier? Yeah, they all had MONSTER stats.
Article E)
Mets fans... "We're fans of baseball."
Yankees fans... "It's about tradition! TWENTY SIX CHAMPIONSHIPS!!! Every decade... I was even a fan during the 80's when they weren't good. The Yankees are baseball! Throw out the stats, it's about winning. Stats don't matter, intangibles baby... it's in your heart! WINNING!"
Yankees fans add... "If you don't like the Yankees, you must have issues with winning"
Manny Stiles says... "You say "winning" alot, but the Yankees haven't won a championship since 5 years BEFORE the ArmchairGM.com era began"
Article 6)
I wanted to write this while the playoffs were going and both teams were still in it. Basketball is coming soon and my attention will be drawn to Arizona's Sons, the Phoenix Suns. If Jeter wins the MVP, it's a travesty and I'll get a tattoo with a heart with a #2 and pinstripes on my butt! Joe DiMaggio must be whooping it up with Dick Clark down there in hell...
When the Yanks and/or Metropolitans get booted to Sucksville - Population: You; You can come tell me HOW great your team(s) is/are... When the Sawbucks or the Mutts win the Series, I'll remind you that the Super Bowl Winning Colts went undefeated last year, the Spurs and Pistons had a legendary 2006 NBA Finals, USA Basketball is unstoppable and USA Soccer was dominant on the offensive end...
Article Rocky VII: Adriene's Revenge!
- Do you ever wonder why Giambi, Sheffield, Matsui, Posada, Damon, Abreu and Cano all seem to be pretty good? That's what Jeter does to less-captainly players
- Pedro Martinez: You get what you pay for and sometimes more
Just think if Steinbrenner would have made A-Rod the Captain on the spot and booted Jeter over to 2b (best DP combo ever?) or 3b?? ARod with Captain confidence might've put up 70 HRs... a relegated Jeter would be a bigger winner than ever and be MORE valuable through adjusting to a position change.
- Randy Johnson and Tom Glavine both deserve more than one ring.
- Does Moose seem like a World Series winning type pitcher? Not yet!
- Just think, A-Rod was almost a Met and even more almost a Red Socked player...
TV Connection
- Tim McCarver sucks - He played as a Met and he's a Yankee slobberer..minus points to both.
- Jerry Seinfeld is kinda annoying. The actors all came together under the right circumstances at the right time for all the right reasons. Thank God that show is done. (There I said it...)
- The Costanza Curse. OK, Seinfeld, but... The Bastards from Houston no-hit the sons a'bitches, the Highlanders in their first ever meeting (sure, it took 74 pitchers, but STILL a no-no), meanwhile the Mets will cause the universe to collapse as the time/space continuum will be shorn if they have a no-no... PLEASE, for the sake of humanity... Metsplayers, PLEASE talk to your pitchers all game long.
- Isn't it about time we had another World Series No-Hitter? Of course, I'm the guy that says every All-Star game, "isn't it about time we had an All-Star Grand Slam"
- Yogi Berra coached both teams. That's interesting.
- Yankees unis are much sweeter than the Mets (looks like Knicks, sounds like "Jets")
- Let me sneak this one in here: Wait 'til Jeter gets named on some documents surrounding controversy ('roids/HGH/sex change)...
- Just for the hell of it, Dave Kingman, former Met/former Yankee
Question
Would you believe I actually LIKE Derek Jeter? It's true! Any guy who dives into stands is cool by me. I just happen to be a fan of baseball and not an idiot who thinks Derek Jeter is anything more than he exactly what he is. Good, often Lucky, and Lucky to be a Yankee.
What number is this?
Ever notice there's no "Curse of Jeets"?
All the teams that passed on him? Astros, Indians, Expos, Orioles and Reds HAVEN'T WON A WORLD SERIES since they passed on him in the '92 draft!!!
For the jackasses
I really honestly love baseball and don't care who's playing. However there are some teams I root against when given the chance. Just to clear it up for the douche bag that keeps calling me a Dodgers fan... my piece on how to tell a Dodgers fan from a crackhead...
- Manny Stiles' Rootability Chart
- I root for good baseball games, lots of fantastic plays, 20 pitch at-bats, hit batsmen, sacrifice flys, suicide squeezes, obscure 100-year-old records being broken and extra innings, lots of extra innings!
- Teams I Root against unless they play each other, then I root for extra innings - Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals, Mets, Dodgers, Cubs and the Giants
- Team I Root against specifically in remembrance of Steve Irwin - Tampa Bay Devil Rays
- Teams I Root for or against - Every other team in every baseball league in the world... unless the Lakers start a baseball team... I'll root against them.
Who is Worse?
Pseudo-Yankee wannabe fans (micro-pixie Sarah Jessica Parker-Beuler) or Pseudo-Mets wannabe fans (Clipper-for-life Billy Crystal) - annoyingly close battle either way.
There, that aughtta get the discussion rolling.... Remember, REAL BASEBALL FANS, this article was NOT for you! Let the playoffs and WORLD SERIES determine it all for us in 2006! Not 1996, not 1986... It ain't 2000, bitches!!!
- 'World Series' is a name that has been around longer than anyone I know, including my 102-year-old Grandmom, so if you have a problem with the name "World Series", get a time machine and McFly away...
