Today there's an advantage to being home sick: I can watch the Fenway home opener. I was so annoyed to have to miss it - grumble, grumble, 9-5 work - and now I don't have to. By coincidence, the Sox are playing the local nine.
Allan is unhappy about having to miss three weeks of baseball while we're on vacation. We usually don't travel during baseball season (unless it's a baseball trip), but sometimes it's unavoidable. Going to Peru during the rainy season doesn't make much sense.
The last time we were away in April, we visited our dear friends Alan With One L and Frederick in London. A chunk of concrete fell off Yankee Stadium, the Yankees had to play at Shea, and everyone was half-joking that George Steinbrenner did it on purpose to get a new stadium. We missed that excitement, but the Yankees went on to an historic season, what would become the most memorable season of my Yankee-fan life.
So you see, being away in April is a good thing.
If you're a more recent reader and all this Yankee-Red Sox stuff is confusing you: I switched sides. After nearly thirty years of diehard fandom, I did a 180 on the longest-running, most heated rivalry in US sports. I had no control over it. It just happened.
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>If you're a more recent reader and all this Yankee-Red Sox stuff is confusing you: I switched sides. After nearly thirty years of diehard fandom, I did a 180 on the longest-running, most heated rivalry in US sports. I had no control over it. It just happened.<
couldn't stand the winning team anymore, eh? stinking bastards win too much for you. not that you wanna see them be rewarded for it, of course -- better to move to a team that can't (afford to) win a pennant. there's one kind of winning a person can do without! but hey, who could blame you? it feels exactly right.
you've helped destroy the yankee fanbase and i suspect you don't even begin to understand how. may the Sox survive the influx of your like.
LOL...! M@, you had me going there for a while. :)
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I was wondering whether his e-mail could be used in any situation to make ad hominem attacks. I think it clearly can.
I especially like the construction "You've helped destroy XXXX and I suspect you don't even begin to understand how. May XXXX survive the influx of your like." I intend to use that often. A rhetoric goes, it's almost unbeatable: accuse everything, say nothing.
I'm starting to look at my hate mail in a whole new light... :)
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