enough of this already...

all right now. what is up jack? timmy? anyway, it's time to start some typing. it's been about a year, but i think i am finally not pissed off anymore. not sure what it is but it feels different. maybe it's the ultimate form of acceptance of this is who i am and what i do, but i don't really know. maybe i don't hate kickball anymore and that's why i was so pissed off all along. that seems incredibly unlikely and let's face it, it is.

but let's get down to this. to all the sports commentators, haters, anti yankee people out there...please, shut the fuck up. here is a list of a few things that people are saying a lot about currently that are just ignorant and uninformed:

1. please stop with the "the last team to have it's first save 22 games into the season was the 1972 tigers" or "only 4 teams have ended april 4 games under .500 this late in the season and made the playoffs. this is not good for the yankees" and a bunch of other shit like that.

first off, enough of the comparisons. comparing a sports team of today to a sports team of 20 years ago does not correlate. the culture, the attitude and the game is just not the same anymore. the comparisons don't carry over. secondly, those 4 teams that made the playoffs after ending april more than 3 games under .500 all did it in the past 2 seasons and some twice (padres)...in fact, the yankees WERE ONE OF THOSE TEAMS. fuck.

2. please stop saying the yankees just buy new players and are bad for baseball with their $200 million payroll.

first of all, it's under 200 million now...way under. ok, down to around 170 or 180 million. but please bitch, they have been trying. they trade gary sheffield and randy johnson in the offseason...that's 30 mil right there. they got yonger with those trades, and not guys they can use right now. they are working for the future and trying to win with what they got. their rotation is in shambles because of injuries, so they are bringing up young players to win that way. they are not trading prospects, they are not shelling out money anymore. they are playing the game responsibly. i'm not saying that people should start to root for them or even relax their desire to see the yankees lose every game. i'm saying, respect their efforts and respect their new methods.

besides, most of the haters here say that steinbrenner will go buy anyone. he won't because he can't. he's not in charge anymore. cashman has made that pretty clear. the gm runs the show. that's why torre is still the manager, that's why they didn't make any major signings in the off season (they could have shelled out millions for gil meche or ted lilly) and didn't.

3. it's getting much harder to not freak out at every yankee loss with all these idiots around me.

this is the year i try not to break a chair, rip a pair of pants in half, rip the head off my snake's dinner (i.e. a mouse*) due to the yankees poor performance. i'm doing pretty well. (*= no mouse was decapitated...though i hold it as an option because it sounds cool). but if these rejects don't lay off me, i could go postal and i'm pretty sure it will lead to a heart attack at 26, which has to be a record for a kid like me who runs like 15 miles a week.

but shit bitch, i started this thing saying i'm not angry anymore and here i am, angry again. but then again, the yanks are up 10-0 and this could be the game that starts them in the right direction.

so i'm going to try and find some time from, um, time to time to post some more. shoot me some feedback if you like and check out www.playcalvinball.blogspot.com, because bert needs your love too.