Phillies have a great team. My team has 1 more win to go. Hopefully tonight.

"Fuck the Yankees. I'd like nothing more than to see Gay-Rod sitting on the bench with his face in his hands."

When my team is out of it this time of year, I just concentrate on football. No need to be a bitter ass about it.

"Sully, you may not be aware of the fact that the majority of Americans despise the Yankees."

I know. I just don't care or give credence to all the excuses people use for their hatred. I followed the team in the 80's and early 90's and back I didn't assinine reactions for other fans. Then they start winning alot more games every year and all the sudden people start shouting like asses when they find out what team I root for. Pretty easy to put 2 and 2 together.

"It has nothing to do with being bitter about my own team being out of the race. I came to terms with that about 6 months ago."

If the Yankees were playing golf and your team was still in the playoffs you wouldn't care about the Yankees right now.

"I followed the team in the 80's and early 90's and back I didn't assinine reactions for other fans. "

LOL. I swear I typed that correctly the first time but I had to retyped after I botched the password....

"So the Phillies aren't your team? I misunderstood your #23, then."

Nope. I was born in NY, live in north Jersey. I root for NY teams.

"Uh. That's because they wouldn't be playing baseball so there'd be nothing to root against them for."

My point was that nobody hates a team that isn't winning. I don't hate the Red Sox or the Mets when they stink but I've loathed them at times when they were very good teams. Very few people outside of the most bitter Red Sox jackasses hated the Yankees in the early 90's when they sucked.

Alot Yankee haters these days are total morons between Rivera spitting on the ball bullshit stories and blaming the Yanks for the umpires sucking. They act like JnD and Buffalo Bob with their conspiracies. The Yanks could lose two baserunners and an out due to a bad call like they did in game 2 against the Angels and nobody cares but if the Twins end up with a runner on first instead of second due to a bad call its a major turning point in the game. The only real difference is that the Yankees won despite the more costly bad call.

The haters are willing to sound like people who know nothing about the game just so they can vent. Why would I give a shit what they say?

"Jersey always gets put down but it's a beautiful state. They don't call it the "Garden State" for nothing."

We've got both good and bad. I find all the anti-NJ stuff funny unless someone is just being a real idiot about it. At least we're not boring.

"My only real issue with Jersey is that you cannot keep the most obnoxious of your fellow statesmen out of my state when it gets cold up there. You cannot drive, are constantly correcting how we speak and telling us everything is better up North, yet here they are."

Nah, we send you the B squad. You guys don't know real obnoxiousness. You can't get good obnoxiousness down there.

"I'm a diehard Red Sox fan and a lifelong Yankees hater but could you please call me an asshole instead I hate to be lumped with that jackass notorious for his $30 "Sexual Conquests""

I always thought the pathological, intense hatred of the Yankees in New England was somewhat pathetic but usually when I meet a Sox fan from up there they are actually good fans to talk baseball with....

However, the Sox fans who were born and raised in this area are douches, for the most part.

So really you're probably an OK guy or a douche moreso than an asshole or a jackass.

The real worst people in the world are Dallas Cowboy fans from the tri-state area (NY, NJ, PA).

"And see what I mean, even the "obnoxiousness" is better up North =P"

That was the joke.

BTW - I realized after I posted the CT and not PA is the third member of the Tri-State area. But Connecticut sucks so hard I always try to sub them out.

"I just enjoy watching teams grow into winners instead of trying to buy victory every year."

The Yankees have at least 12 home grown players on the current playoff roster, not counting Pettite who left and came back. I'd be surprised if any World Series winner in the last 15 years had more than 12. Certainly isn't the norm.

"even though half the team is on roids"

Half the league. The Mitchell report had Yankees because the only 2 rats Mitchell could find worked for NY teams. The Yankees who got caught all came from other organizations and were doing steriods for years before they got here - Giambi, Clemens, Arod. When Pettite used HGH to come back from an injury even that was in Houston. But the Yankees are the problem. Right.