PatGillickProtege
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Quote: Originally Posted by Graybeard
Rivera for three!?! I don't think even Girardi would be that stupid. You just better hope Petitte doesn't pop Howard and wake him up.
Say, I couldn't get up for my cheesesteak last year. Are you coming back for this one?
I get a cheesesteak everytime I'm down there. Once or twice a month considering my folks live down there.
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BREAK UP THE YANKEES !!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations to the New York Yankees. Now PGP can have his parade. 
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I was incorrect....Yankees in 6.....CC, Pettite & the DH were the keys to the Yankee success. If there had been a game 7, it would have been interesting as the yankees were running short of outfielders with the injuries to Cabrera & Damon.
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Quote: Originally Posted by JoiseyGuyBREAK UP THE YANKEES !!!!!!!!!!!! Congratulations to the New York Yankees. Now PGP can have his parade. Taking my Dad and my 11 yr old Godson to the Parade on Friday. The kid will skip school for this. 9 years was a long time coming. This one was definitely for The Boss George Steinbrenner. If other owners were as passionate about winning as he and his family are then Baseball would be great. But other owners like Carl Pohlad of Minnesota and David Glass (former CEO Wal-Mart) of Kansas City don't like to spend money and just pocket the Revenue Sharing money that MLB gives them. Don't hate the Yankees for spending money because they are playing within the rules. Now the planning for 2010 starts for both NY and Philadelphia and for my 2010 Fantasy Baseball Team.
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Hey PGP - I can hate the Yankees all I want - for any reason - so there  |
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Quote: Originally Posted by DingerHey PGP - I can hate the Yankees all I want - for any reason - so there I see someone woke up this morning with a bug up their colon. Hate them all you want. I don't care. You probably root for some team whose cheap-ass owners pocket the revenue sharing money instead of putting it back in the team and will always be content being doormats in Major League Baseball. You can hate Steinbrenner all you want. He does plenty with his money out there to do good for people but you'd never know it because it's not spoken about.
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Would like to know how many of West Coasters watched all the games.
I watched maybe a total of 5 innings for the total series and even those few were booorrring.
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JoiseyGuy
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Hammer - You become bored a lot. Maybe the reason is in your mirror. An international person like yourself should have little trouble finding excitement in life.
PS - May I suggest any novel by Nelson DeMille? Perhaps "Gold Coast", a great one.
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frank, the reason why lately i am not watching TV is because i am in the process of reading a book written by my cousin, the one that was imprisoned
in Iran, the book is entitled " My prison, My home " By Haleh Esfandiary.
If you ever get the chance, buy it and read it, and if you have any question ask me.
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Hammer - I know the book well, but I had no idea that your relative wrote it. That Middle East is a troubled place. My base roots introduction to the contemporary Middle East was the autobiography of "Stormin" Norman Schwarchkoff. He had lived there as a boy and understood the cultures. Later he describes his and others' roles in the Gulf War. The book gave me insight into what I had supposed to be true. I had done research for a major paper years before on "The Arab-Israeli" conflict, but even that was more past history than present turmoil.
PS - Any time a nation state is created ignoring tribal or theocratic or cultural allegiances, there is huge trouble, sometimes genocide. Even the USA had to make "The Great Compromise" to determine the relationship between states (former colonies) and the federal government.
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheHammer
frank, the reason why lately i am not watching TV is because i am in the process of reading a book written by my cousin, the one that was imprisoned
in Iran, the book is entitled " My prison, My home " By Haleh Esfandiary.
If you ever get the chance, buy it and read it, and if you have any question ask me.
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PGP, tell us about the parade. How did it compare to the one down Broad Street? I heard the Phanatics put on a pretty good one LY - my DD's office (Fortune 500) shut down and hit the street. Did NY have similar enthusiasm for, ho hum, #27?
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PatGillickProtege
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Graybeard - I took my Dad and my 11 year old Godson. Nobody but nobody throws a Parade like NY City. My Dad kept saying how it took him back to his youth when Stengel's Yanks were winning 5 straight World Series. Last Year's Phillies Parade down Broad Street was great as was the Ballpark Celebration but it can't compare to NY at all. This Parade was as great as 1996, 1998, 1999 & 2000. We saw Yogi Berra and Reggie Jackson but missing from this fanfare was Whitey Ford. One gentleman I wish would have been there was a player from those 5 straight titles - #42 Second Baseman Gerald Francis Coleman Lt. Col. USMC (Ret.). I could have listened to Jerry Coleman's stories all day at the Parade. He actually told me once when I asked him who threw the first punch at Billy Martin's Birthday Party at the old Copacabana that "you're too young to know the answer". Vintage Jerry Coleman.
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