OT Re: [Sca-cooks] Arizona 3, New York 2

[A. F. Murphy]

Actually, I'm in your camp! Though I agree, we are in the minority, but we
have some company.

But I don't have cable, and am not getting Fox right now, so I didn't see
any of this, just heard it. So I can't give the detail you can. I did
expect Clemens to develop hamstring trouble right up until he actually
threw the ball...

Anne

> [Original Message]
> From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
>
> Anne du Bosc wrote:
>
> > It's a good night to live in the Valley of the
> > Sun, even in the rain.
> >
> > Mordonna
>
>
> I dunno, I'm feeling pretty good here in New York. But I'm in the vast
mino=
> rity. I'm just glad that since there's been no change in the Yankees'
behav=
> ior on the field or off, and they continue to live to prove that it
_does_ =
> matter whether you win or lose, and _not_ how you play the game, that for
o=
> nce they were not rewarded for it. If they learn from this experience, as
a=
>  New Yorker I'll be happy to wish them well again in their professional
end=
> eavors. Even if they had won, there would have been much consolation for
me=
>  in the knowledge that Clemens actually came to bat and saw the other
side =
> of a fastball to the inside corner (walking, and doubtless smelling,
funny =
> thereafter), something I never thought to see him do, that I'll probably
ne=
> ver see another Paul O'Neill temper tantrum, and maybe even never hear
Joe =
> Torre or Don Zimmer lie again, knowing Steinbrenner's fundamental
insanity.=
>  I'm not holding out hopes for the end of the countless
"neighborhood-of-se=
> cond-base-but-n
> ot-actually-on-it" Soriano double plays (twice against the D-Backs, at
leas=
> t once aginst the Mariners), nor the too frequent tags out at the plate
wit=
> h Posada's empty glove while he holds the ball in his other hand (twice
in =
> the World Series), nor Derek-Jeter-who-can-do-no-wrong's classic step
with =
> the rear leg into the strike zone and unaccountably being hit in the leg
(t=
> wice in the ALCS), and the literally countless occasions when pitchers
Hern=
> andez and Rivera accidentally pitched with saliva-covered fingers after
get=
> ting permission from umpires to blow on their fingers because 65 degrees
F.=
>  is too cold to pitch.
>
>
> But I don't want to bore people here with my eccentric grievances...
> I'll be busy watching the inevitable plans for a ticker-tape parade for
> the Yankees, paid for with my tax dollars.
>
>
>
>
> Adamantius, wiping foam from mouth before it's too late
> --
> Phil & Susan Troy
>
> troy at asan.com
>
> "It was so blatant that Roger threw at him.  Clemens gets away with
> things that get other people thrown out of games.  As long as they
> let him get away with it, it's going  to continue." -- Joe Torre, 9/98
>
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