The World Series of UGH! [J. Mark English]

ARGH!

I friggin' hate both the Yankees and the Phillies. Okay, hate is a strong word. I DESPISE both teams.

I loathe the Yanks out of pure and cynical jealousy.

My antipathy for the Phillies follows from them sneaking (and dancing) their way into the playoffs the last three seasons at the expense of my favorite team, the New York Mets.

In order to avoid having to express too many thoughts on this years World Series (which I'm sure will be a ratings dream for MLB), my friend Chris Mari will be sharing a few thoughts from a Phillies fan perspective.

As for now, I do not know who to root for. Although from a business perspective, the Yanks winning it all will be a boon for American Legends.

Chris Mari has already been busy on his Facebook wall putting up the following comments:

dear boston, welcome to the phillies nation. enjoy your stay, who knows, you may even grow to like it. love, philly ps...will trade rally towels for yankees suck shirts...

or

dear phillies please win the world series. i want to repeat the best month, week, day everrrr.... and run around broad street like a maniac until the wee hours. oh and that parade was pretty cool too. brotherly love, christopher

Then there is my friend Adrienne (a Yankees fan) who writes things like:

Just sat next to Andy Pettitte at the movies,.. Law Abiding Citizen - he didn't like all the "blood and guts" so if he doesn't pitch well tomorrow its cause he didn't sleep well tonight! LETS GO YANKEES!

And here are some pics already up on Facebook:





Buckle up fans...its going to be an interesting few weeks...

Borrowed Quotes [Chrissy]

Bill Lyon's take on the upcoming tease that is the Phillies season:

"Their total of world championship rings is one fewer than two. That's fewer than the Boston Red Sox (who actually have won six Series), and fewer even than the Chicago Cubs (whose rings came in 1907 and 1908). Yet these two teams have been the two most celebrated of the frustrated. Those two franchises have been portrayed, ad nauseam, sympathetically, even heroically. The Phils have been accorded no such gentle, forgiving sentiment.

And yet, I confess, the Fightin's have a way of seducing you. The people keep coming back for more. For all the civic slurs, for all the unsavory things said of the Philadelphia fans, also say this: They could teach loyalty to a dog. Their capacity for pain is without limit."

The above quote is courtesy of Chris Mari's aim profile. He is a strong supporter of Philly sports and also is a karaoke extraordinaire. He also lists the following stats:

23 plus years, 91 seasons without a parade
the odds of this happening: 50,700 to 1

Where else but Philadelphia?

But hey, if the Red Sox won the world series, I think we are next for a championship.

This article from Wikipedia talks about the William Penn curse really well, I suggest checking it out.

And a word about the tournament....Villanova may have lost in the first round, but Joaquim Noah will be ugly forever. (taken and adapted from a group on Facebook)

That's enough borrowing ideas for one posting...my next post will be all original, I promise.