I should just ignore you, but this is too entertaining.
OK, here goes:
My original post indicated that the Yankees have made a career beating up the weaker team (Which is something they should do, any team should do) in post #34
What kills me is how YANKE$$ fans alway point out how rotten the National Leauge is, when they themselves have fattened up every year for the last decade on the likes of Tampa Bay, Baltimore, and Toronto in their own division - not to mention Kansas City and the other crappy AL teams.
In that post, I also spoke well of the Yankees:
I am a Mets fan, but I have to admit that the YANKE$$ have done a great job getting themselves together this year, both team management and field management. You have to be impressed that they have come all the way back.
Your reply in post #35 was that they Yankees have ALWAYS had strong competition within their own division
Quite the opposite really, as every single year they have had STRONG competition from WITHIN their division.
In post #36 I pointed out with statistics that while the Red Sox have been strong competition, the rest of the division (Toronto, Baltimore, and Tampa Bay) had only been over .500 twice collectively since 2000.
You then said that my stats didn't prove a thing, and that the Yankees now had a better record than the Mets (Not sure what this had to do with the AL East discussion)
Now that is a stupid reply. There are 5 teams in a division, right. At best there will only be 3 teams with winning records (generally 2 winning, 2 losing and 1 about even). Guess what, thats exactly what you produced with your 'stats'.
My comment didn't say every team had a winning record, only that they have had competition within the division (unlike the METS who have ALL losing teams THIS YEAR) - and I think the Boston - NY record speaks for itself - tell me that this is NOT competitive.
Anyhow, The Yanks are now extending their 'lead' over the METS in team record this year - and they play a MUCH tougher schedule overall than ANY NL team will play THIS YEAR (I said THIS YEAR).
Sorry that the facts don't back you up.
So, at that point, I made what moderators refer to as a "Peace Post", basically saying lets drop this point and move on. I did NOT indicate that we should talk about non-sports in this section, I just suggested that instead of spending energy making stupid sports-talk radio arguments, we should instead direct that energy to other things/
Look, I'm not going to get into a pi$$ing contest here, this is not WFAN. We don't need to go back and forth with "My teams wonderful and yours sucks". I would hope that we are all beyond that.
The Yankees spend the most because the MAKE the most. The good part is that they spend the money they make on the team and not on "other" things. Good for them.
The good teams always *should* beat up on the bad teams, but they don't always. As I said before, in 2004, the Mets won 4 out of 6 from the Yankees, but really, the Mets were not a good team. Does the fact that they won 4 games mean they were better than the Yankees?
Everyone should root for the team they chose and stop worrying about what other teams fans think. Really.
Let's get back to satellite stuff, and expend the same amount of passion on things like Distant Networks and Service Mergers!
This is where you were supposed to reply with something like "You're right, let's see what happens in September and maybe we'll meet in the playoffs and then the real fun will begin". But no, we're going around one more time because you them posted this:
All you have to do is stop posting in THIS THREAD and post in another of your choice. This is for sports, there are plenty of threads for you OTHER areas of interest.
Again, argumentive. And once again after I made a SPORTS comment about your 26 Championships, or should I say the Yankees 26 championships (You actually have as many as I do - NONE!), you again tell me that I am in the "wrong place"
Amazing how you would complain about a Yankees FAN or a Yankees FOE in THIS thread. You want discussion about satellite issues and DNS - but YOU COME INTO A SPORTS THREAD (that has the Yankees and Braves as its topic) AND COMPLAIN. That is a first, someone coming in to complain about ON-TOPIC discussion - and wanting the thread to become OFF-TOPIC. Thats why people that post OFF-TOPIC are universally HATED also.
So, anyway, it's not worth it. You can have the last word. This thread is going nowhere. I am surprised that it is still open. However, I'm out of it. Good Luck and Good Night!
