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

[Olwen the Odd]

>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
>minority. I'm just glad that since there's been no change in the Yankees'
>behavior 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 once 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 endeavors. 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 never 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-second-base-but-n
>ot-actually-on-it" Soriano double plays (twice against the D-Backs, at
>least once aginst the Mariners), nor the too frequent tags out at the plate
>with 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 (twice in the ALCS), and the literally countless occasions when
>pitchers Hernandez and Rivera accidentally pitched with saliva-covered
>fingers after getting 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

That's ok Master A.  I am working on a little something bound to take your
mind off the game ;0}
Olwen

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