ENY. No one cares about your daddy’s yankees. Welcome to the 21st century. Joe Torre works for the Dodgers. You haven’t won in 10 years, and only the geriatrics on the team can even remember it. Your program is rotten to the core because of a history of neglecting internal development in favor of writing checks to finance your own all-star team. The Sox were better before they even started beating you, because they did the hard work to develop their program. You should worry.
And Wrigley Field, with its Ivy outfield is one of the last great old-time ball parks.
I could walk there from many of the places I lived in Chicago.
In 1999 i went to opening day in Chicago, they were playing the Phillies. It got snowed out. I sat across the street in the Cubby Bear Lounge and the snow was so heavy i couldn’t see the ball park!!!!!!
This letter to the editor is for all you Yankees fans out there:
Those Baseball Fans Who Know Only Tears
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2003
To the Editor:
Re ”Walking It Off,” by Bob Greene (Op-Ed, Oct. 18):
Having grown up in the Bronx a few miles from Yankee Stadium, but living now a few minutes’ walk from Wrigley Field, I must disagree with Mr. Greene’s statement that ”nobody lost” in Chicago and that what happened ”is not irretrievably melancholy.”
To deny the reality of loss is to miss the lesson of the Cubs. If a consumer product, scientific theory or political party consistently failed for 95 years, how many adherents would it retain? Yet millions of people around the world adhere to the Chicago Cubs.
To walk into Wrigley Field is to know that life inevitably means loss, that even the sunniest day has its shadows and ends in darkness, but that to persist and never surrender, even in the face of irretrievable melancholy, is heroic.
The question must be asked: Do the Yankees teach us any lesson as profound?
randi, those that can’t, count.
ENY. No one cares about your daddy’s yankees. Welcome to the 21st century. Joe Torre works for the Dodgers. You haven’t won in 10 years, and only the geriatrics on the team can even remember it. Your program is rotten to the core because of a history of neglecting internal development in favor of writing checks to finance your own all-star team. The Sox were better before they even started beating you, because they did the hard work to develop their program. You should worry.
Dave, 63 already!!! PL of the week.
Dave, 64 already!!! PL of the week.
DIBS, the “w” was not capitlized and I’m still honoring his request that we don’t interact with each other
“Is anyone else having trouble with gmail? I haven’t been able to log on for three hours now.”
No prob, but then again Google just announced it’s outta beta. haha.
And Wrigley Field, with its Ivy outfield is one of the last great old-time ball parks.
I could walk there from many of the places I lived in Chicago.
In 1999 i went to opening day in Chicago, they were playing the Phillies. It got snowed out. I sat across the street in the Cubby Bear Lounge and the snow was so heavy i couldn’t see the ball park!!!!!!
This letter to the editor is for all you Yankees fans out there:
Those Baseball Fans Who Know Only Tears
Published: Tuesday, October 21, 2003
To the Editor:
Re ”Walking It Off,” by Bob Greene (Op-Ed, Oct. 18):
Having grown up in the Bronx a few miles from Yankee Stadium, but living now a few minutes’ walk from Wrigley Field, I must disagree with Mr. Greene’s statement that ”nobody lost” in Chicago and that what happened ”is not irretrievably melancholy.”
To deny the reality of loss is to miss the lesson of the Cubs. If a consumer product, scientific theory or political party consistently failed for 95 years, how many adherents would it retain? Yet millions of people around the world adhere to the Chicago Cubs.
To walk into Wrigley Field is to know that life inevitably means loss, that even the sunniest day has its shadows and ends in darkness, but that to persist and never surrender, even in the face of irretrievable melancholy, is heroic.
The question must be asked: Do the Yankees teach us any lesson as profound?
STUART ALTSCHULER
Chicago, Oct. 18, 2003
I remember 1998 (and for that matter, 1984) like it was yesterday, ENY.
1998 Padres starting lineup: Joyner, Veras, Gomez, Caminiti, Hernandez, Vaughn, Finley, Gwynn
1984 Padres starting lineup: Garvey, Wiggins, Templeton, Nettles, Kennedy, Martinez, McReynolds, Gwynn