baseball

[lady.nymphaea at faerielands.com]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> > 2. baseball
> > Congrats to the Diamondback and Braves fans, but not to the 
Oakland 
> > fans because I am rooting for the Yankees.  Looks like a lost 
cause, 
> > though.  I am thinking of making an emergency appeal to the HP4GU-
NY 
> > list, to see if anyone has any emergency spells (Slugging Spell?  
> > Pitching Potion?) for the Yankees (or hexes for the A's), since 
it 
> > looks like it will take magic for the Yankees to win it this year.
> 
> At the risk of starting a flame war that will require us to add 
> baseball to banned subjects:  the Yankees are fizzling this year 
> because their deal with the Dark Lord finally reached its 
expiration 
> date.  As someone once famously said, "Rooting for the Yankees is 
like 
> rooting for Walden Macnair."

Normally I'd be in the extreme-dislike-of-Yankees camp (after all, 
Chuck Knoblauch plays for them), but this year of all years would 
have been good for a Yankees win.

I wonder what sort of curse is on the Braves that makes them 
incapable of winning the World Series or the NLCS despite multiple 
years in a row of winning the division title.

> Amy
> who will be happy if her team even exists in April (Montreal)

I hear you there. I live in Minnesota and am quite sick of the rumors 
about the team moving, and all the "we want a new stadium" talk. Yes, 
it's true that the Metrodome is not exactly in top condition but I'm 
wondering if it's purposely being treated that way in order to plead 
the case for new baseball and football stadia.

And now Tom Kelly retires...well, there wasn't much he could have 
done with the Amazing Collapsing Ballclub this year.

Meril