Ryne Sandberg Is On Crack
Clearly he must have been sucking the glass dick when he wrote this little ditty.
Proof positive that players definitely see the world differently from fans. Can you imagine a real Cubs fan ever suggesting such foolishness? Or a Mets fan telling his brethren to root for the Yankees because they'll return the favor someday?
I think even my infidel enemies will agree with me on this...Our wars ends when all wars end. And we wouldn't have it any other way. We might be friends, lovers, brothers and sisters off the field. While the game is on...we make the Hatfields and McCoys look like Will and Grace. The Israelis and Palestinians have to go to Camp David once every generation to hash things out because of all the you know...the dead bodies. Because this is a relatively bloodless feud between baseball fans, our hatred can carry on for generations without interference.
I enjoy hating the Red Sox, Mets and Indians. Their fan bases are defined by their hatred of the Yankees. It's ingrained in our collective DNA. I know people who won't date someone who supports the enemy of their beloved. Wives and husbands who can't watch an important game together that involves their teams. Parents that argue over which team the child is going to root for as passionately as what religion they'll be raised in or what schools they should attend.
People take this shit seriously. And I hate it when ignorant players who were only involved in the rivalry because they were paid to try to tell fans how to think and feel and worse...who they should root for.
Shut up Ryne. If we didn't take this shit as seriously as we do, you wouldn't be a millionaire several times over. It might be pathological, but it's our pathology.
Because I'm a American League guy, I'm pulling for the Chi-Sox. But one of my favorite writers on ESPN 2, Scoop Jackson wrote an article that should make everyone who's trying to find a side in this fight to consider the South Side this October.
Imagine if the Chi-Sox had guys like this writing their story for them for the last 80 years. Maybe we wouldn't have heard the incessant whining we heard from Infidel Nation since 1918.
If I have to hear about how the Chi-Sox and Astros "play the game right way" and that they play "NL ball", I'm going to puke. You know what the right way to play the game is? Whatever style that wins. Since when did doing the little things become the NL way? Billy Martin practiced that style of baseball and didn't he spend majority of his career in the American League. Can't the same be said about Lou Piniella? Didn't Rickey Henderson steal 130 bases with the Oakland A's? An American League team? When did playing solid fundamental baseball become a National League thing?
Granted, the introduction of the DH in 1973 did put a premium on power in the American League. But it's not as if the American League abandoned fundamentals when pitchers started hitting. At least the good teams didn't.
The teams that win have balanced lineups. If you're going to be 80's Cardinals, you better be able to pitch and catch every thing in your direction. Because your margin for error is a lot less than someone who has a couple of boppers. Each time those Cards lost, they lost to teams with balanced lineups and solid pitching. Steal all the bases you want. Sac bunt till your fingers bleed. At some point, you have to get a hit.
Granted, their is a little more strategy involved in NL games because the pitcher hits. But I've yet to see an AL manager get so outmanaged in a World Series or interleague game because of his inability to deal with pitchers hitting.
Despite what the baseball purists want to say, there is no one right way to play the game. If you're talking about cheating, that's one thing. But if you're talking about styles of play, that's something else. The bottom line is this, you can steal as many bases, hit as many home runs, suicide squeeze till you're blue in the face. If you can't pitch and play solid defense behind your pitcher, none of it matters.
The Astros and Chi-Sox are playing in the big dance because of the way they pitch. As far as I'm concerned, that's the only "right way to play the game" argument that matters.
Proof positive that players definitely see the world differently from fans. Can you imagine a real Cubs fan ever suggesting such foolishness? Or a Mets fan telling his brethren to root for the Yankees because they'll return the favor someday?
I think even my infidel enemies will agree with me on this...Our wars ends when all wars end. And we wouldn't have it any other way. We might be friends, lovers, brothers and sisters off the field. While the game is on...we make the Hatfields and McCoys look like Will and Grace. The Israelis and Palestinians have to go to Camp David once every generation to hash things out because of all the you know...the dead bodies. Because this is a relatively bloodless feud between baseball fans, our hatred can carry on for generations without interference.
I enjoy hating the Red Sox, Mets and Indians. Their fan bases are defined by their hatred of the Yankees. It's ingrained in our collective DNA. I know people who won't date someone who supports the enemy of their beloved. Wives and husbands who can't watch an important game together that involves their teams. Parents that argue over which team the child is going to root for as passionately as what religion they'll be raised in or what schools they should attend.
People take this shit seriously. And I hate it when ignorant players who were only involved in the rivalry because they were paid to try to tell fans how to think and feel and worse...who they should root for.
Shut up Ryne. If we didn't take this shit as seriously as we do, you wouldn't be a millionaire several times over. It might be pathological, but it's our pathology.
Because I'm a American League guy, I'm pulling for the Chi-Sox. But one of my favorite writers on ESPN 2, Scoop Jackson wrote an article that should make everyone who's trying to find a side in this fight to consider the South Side this October.
Imagine if the Chi-Sox had guys like this writing their story for them for the last 80 years. Maybe we wouldn't have heard the incessant whining we heard from Infidel Nation since 1918.
If I have to hear about how the Chi-Sox and Astros "play the game right way" and that they play "NL ball", I'm going to puke. You know what the right way to play the game is? Whatever style that wins. Since when did doing the little things become the NL way? Billy Martin practiced that style of baseball and didn't he spend majority of his career in the American League. Can't the same be said about Lou Piniella? Didn't Rickey Henderson steal 130 bases with the Oakland A's? An American League team? When did playing solid fundamental baseball become a National League thing?
Granted, the introduction of the DH in 1973 did put a premium on power in the American League. But it's not as if the American League abandoned fundamentals when pitchers started hitting. At least the good teams didn't.
The teams that win have balanced lineups. If you're going to be 80's Cardinals, you better be able to pitch and catch every thing in your direction. Because your margin for error is a lot less than someone who has a couple of boppers. Each time those Cards lost, they lost to teams with balanced lineups and solid pitching. Steal all the bases you want. Sac bunt till your fingers bleed. At some point, you have to get a hit.
Granted, their is a little more strategy involved in NL games because the pitcher hits. But I've yet to see an AL manager get so outmanaged in a World Series or interleague game because of his inability to deal with pitchers hitting.
Despite what the baseball purists want to say, there is no one right way to play the game. If you're talking about cheating, that's one thing. But if you're talking about styles of play, that's something else. The bottom line is this, you can steal as many bases, hit as many home runs, suicide squeeze till you're blue in the face. If you can't pitch and play solid defense behind your pitcher, none of it matters.
The Astros and Chi-Sox are playing in the big dance because of the way they pitch. As far as I'm concerned, that's the only "right way to play the game" argument that matters.
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