Thursday, 05 November, 2009

1. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @09:37am:

   Yankees Suck.
   Yeah, I'm from Boston......
2. By tux. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @09:43am:

   Thank you for acknowledging Canada
3. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @09:45am:

   It was a pretty good Series. After a nine year "drought" it almost seems normal that the Yankees are back to winning World Series. (This being the 27th).
   
   Of course, I'm from Seattle and we have no existing MALE sport teams that have won a "World" Championship...
4. By Shel-tone. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @10:05am:

   I actually saw the "win" last night. Lots of men hugging and rubbing and jumping on top of each other.
   
   Too bad for The Simpsons that now I'm hooked on The Office...
   (Stoopid Fox)
5. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @10:30am:

   I'm not much of a sports fan, I don't even root for my home teams (Chicago), but I usually watch the championships.
   
   This year I couldn't make it through a whole game, but saw the first 20-30 minutes of three of them. That was all I could take.
   
   I didn't even know that the Yankees won until I read this post. Sad.
6. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @10:38am:

   Susan got it right.
7. By pm. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @11:08am:

   The Phillies developed an incredible team that is almost as good as the Yankees' store-bought mercenaries.
8. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @12:03pm:

   The Phillies brought the core of their team up through their farm system while the Yankees put their team together by outbidding other teams for free agents. The Phillies' payroll is less than half of what the Yankkees pay out each year.
9. By Mean Jean. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @12:05pm:

   Mr. Mean is sooooo bummed.
10. By L.. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @12:56pm:

    Come on J-W, get it right, even I, a Scot, know that it's called the World Series because it was sponsored by a newspaper called the World.
11. By Phos..... Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @01:32pm:

    Yuck the Fankees.
12. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @01:33pm:

    it was sponsored by a newspaper called the World.

    
    That's a common misconception among Scots.
13. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @01:36pm:

    I watched the last four games and, even though I wanted the Phillies to win, the truth is they just didn't play as well as the Yankees did.
    
    I still like baseball, but I only watch the Series.
14. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @01:44pm:

    My--how the world has shrunk.
15. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @04:30pm:

    Yay Yankees! World Champs again!
    I have been a Yankee fan all of my life and I'm loving it.
    Although I do find baseball boring and can't sit through a game :)
16. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @07:02pm:

    With what the NYY pay their players, they should go 162-0 and win the Series every single year.
    
    The f'd up thing about baseball is, there's almost no chance for small market teams to have a chance at winning a pennant. Unlike the NFL, there's no revenue sharing in baseball.
    
    I doubt that we'll ever see the Kansas City Royals or the Cincinnati Reds, or other small market teams in the WS again unless changes are made.
    
    Rooting for the Yankees to win is like rooting for the casino to beat all of it's customers. The odds favor the house, and the odds favor the Yankees because they will outspend every other team to try and succeed. This is why it is so much fun to see them lose. Ah, well. It's been a fun 9 years.
17. By Doug. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @07:26pm:

    Play of the Series, Johnny Damon's double steal
    
    http://mlb.mlb.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=7113111
18. By . Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @07:52pm:

    Crash, maybe they need to set up another tournament for the "small market teams" that are on a different level than the big ones with big money behind them.
    
    Personally, I like the smaller games better because there's more action and less 3-up/3-down play; in the Series, it gets really exciting when someone finally manages to get a hit and run around the bases a bit. Still - I love the World Series.
19. By cesar. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @08:15pm:

    A better name should have been "The U.S Championship" Or the NAFTA Championship just in case Toronto gets in the postseason.
20. By Bill Mazeroski. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @08:22pm:

    there's almost no chance for small market teams to have a chance at winning a pennant.

    
    Not to worry. We have the Steelers and the Penguins taking up the slack.
21. By Bisbonian. Comment posted 05-Nov-2009 @10:52pm:

    Is that an actual bored sports fan, or just a random bored person from the internets?

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