Response to Jim Armstrong's article

"Lord Calvert" <forlornh RemoveThis @aol.complex> wrote in message
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>
> "Any idiot can root for the Yankees and most Yankees fans seem to
fit the
> description. It takes a real fan of the game of baseball to root for
the
> Expos."

Ah, but Rich, what does that make an Expos fan who transfers his
allegiance -- temporarily of course -- to the Yankees because of the
other participants in this series?

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>> "Any idiot can root for the Yankees and most Yankees fans seem to
>fit the
>> description. It takes a real fan of the game of baseball to root for
>the
>> Expos."
>
>Ah, but Rich, what does that make an Expos fan who transfers his
>allegiance -- temporarily of course -- to the Yankees because of the
>other participants in this series?

Very tortured and confused.

I still prefer my own personal fantasy...that the Marlins win the series but
the Feds come in and handcuff Selig and Loria during the trophy presentation
and take them away to a nice comfortable jail cell where they will spend the
next 10-20 years contemplating the ramifications of their conduct.

It is impossible for me to root for the Yankees under any circumstances, even
those as extreme as these. I have lived in WNY for far too long and have seen
with my own eyes what the NYC politicos who own the Albany government have done
to shaft upstate New York for over a century. I see it everytime I open my
electric bill knowing I'm paying 50% or more than what the people in NYC are
paying for the electricity generated at the same source (and industrial
customers are being gouged even more). I see it every time another load of NYC
garbage comes traipsing into rural Cattaraugus County. I see it every time a
downstate politician assumes that he has upstate's votes just because of his
party affiliation (which cost Rick Lazio the election against Hillary Clinton).


I know the feeling of losing a professional sports franchise to a corrupt, out
of area owner and have them never come back. John Y. Brown might still end up
lynched in the middle of Lafayette Square should he ever return back to
Buffalo. It is painful...deeply painful. I was living in central Maryland when
the Colts left. It was agonizing to watch and it absulutely ripped the heart
out of the area. I saw my own favourite football team lose a championship four
consecutive times and my hockey team have a championship stolen from it by a
corrupt league commissioner and his staff. I know the pain of defeat as well as
most of you and perhaps better. But none of that compares to what NYC has done
to my area over the last century.

This is why when I turn on my TV on Saturday night to watch Game Six I will be
rooting for the Florida Marlins, no matter how much I loathe and despise their
owner.

Rich Goranson
Amherst, NY, USA

Wide right; No goal, Forward lateral, screwed again.
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