Yankees

I was in a play earlier this year that is known around the world. It describes my feelings of the day. There is a line in a song in the play that states "Those Damn Yankees!"Exactly. 

If memory serves this is 27 titles for the boys in pin stripes. Congratulations and who cares.

There are only two ways to be when it comes to the Yankees. You either love them or you hate them. I choose the later. I think part of it comes from my blood. Dad was born a Red Sox fan. That makes being a Yankees fan against a house rule. The only good thing about the Yankees was they sent their talent at the corners, Chris Chambliss and Craig Nettles to the horrid Braves teams of the 1980s.

I admit it, part of it is jealousy. I respect what the two Joes, Torre and Girardi have done leading their teams in recent years. I respect the historical dominance of the team. 

I also know my beloved Braves only dream of such success. The boys from Atlanta dominated a decade like no other in the game's history in the 1990s but Bobby Cox got exactly one World Series title out of that.

There were good Braves teams before my time but the Yankees they have never been.

I think I will be a Pirates fan. They are the polar opposite of the Yankees. I am officially forming the North Carolina chapter of ABTY, or anybody but the Yankees. Anything is an improvement.