My favorite baseball team is the New York Yankees and it gets me a lot of grief.
I wear the Yankees baseball cap whenever I can, although I also have a AZ Diamondbacks cap, another favorite team of mine. I think that the World Series between the Yanks and the Diamondbacks was the greatest that I have ever seen and I've watched a lot of them.
I was happy to see the Diamondbacks win; they deserved it. I think a lot of Yankees fans thought so too.
I said the Yankees cap gets me a lot of grief.
I got on an American Airlines flight to Tucson at DFW last year and an old codger (older than me at least) growled, "Take off that cap."
Everybody laughed, including me.
Earlier at DFW I got teased at the AA desk by another member of the ABNY crowd but the other attendant pointed to the Yankees pin on her lapel.
I love the Carolina basketball team and I get a lot of grief for that. I also love and admire the Duke team. Both coaches for the two teams are wonderful examples. And I taught at Carolina during the years of coach Dean Smith and Walter Davis, Michael Jordan, Sam Perkins, James Worthy and many others.
I often would bump into them on campus; what a thrill for this 6'5" guy to see real stars who all are much taller than me.
Some people just can't take talent and ability; it makes them resentful, insecure and jealous. Any chance they get to attack any level of talent or accomplishment they will take it.
They hate the Yankees because of the owner and all his money. I'm not too thrilled with all the money George spends but I loved the Yankees long before he came along , back during the years when they weren't so good.
Yankee haters forget those years just as people without a memory forget the years Duke was nothing in basketball. Many of those years were the same years that we lived in Durham during the seventies and the eighties.
Duke has dominated Carolina and the ACC over the past 10 years and that's fine with me. Coach K. is a fabulous coach and a fine man.
The haters and the critics say they always root for the underdog or the little people but in truth they love to hate more than anything else. Their motto for life is, “Who do they think they are?” They try to make themselves big by making others look small.
There's an episode in the third year of West Wing when Josh Lyman, the deputy chief of staff, learns there is a "fan site" for all things Josh Lyman on the Internet. The site is called Lemon-Lyman. Josh is fascinated and flattered to be so avidly studied.
He decides to write to the website and thank the folk. What happened next will not surprise seasoned users of the Internet. He was attacked. He tried to straighten his fans out, set the record straight. The attacks went up exponentially. His staff urged him to let it go, leave it alone.
Josh was hooked and kept trying to get in the last word.
Finally, C.J. the press secretary learns what's going on because the so-called fans have leaked the "exchanges" to the Wall Street Journal.
She tells Josh to knock it off. He says he thinks it's important to get the facts stated. He says to C.J., "I think I outrank you." He does.
But C.J. gets in his face and says that if he doesn't knock it off, she will stick a hard drive up his you-know-what so far...
You get the idea.
C.J. says, don't you get it? These people are crazy. Stay the hell away from them.
Get the job done and ignore them.
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