Guess I'm still as much of a Yankee hater as I ever was. I admit to occasionally lurking on their boards this season just to soak in as much Yankee fan misey as I possibly could before ol' Hanky went out and blew everything up in the offseason, probably even offering Ted Kaczynski a minor league deal if he could prove he could hit a curve ball (reminds me of a great movie line: "What the hell league you been playing in?" "California Penal...")
Anyway, one only need peruse the "official" Yankees fanboard to realize that losing isn't for sissies, and when both your team lost ugly and your candidate is losing ugly, well, it can just about drive you to distraction. Take a look at some of the threads on the front page of that looney bin:
"Teixeira is a stat padder" (from 10/9)
"ACORN-Voter Fraud raid!" (from 10/7)
"Farrakhan says BHO is the Messiah!" (from 10/9)
"More Boring to Watch Pitch: Wakefield or Matsuzaka" (from 10/10)
"Rays Haven't Done Once What Yankees Have Done 26 Times" (from 10/6)
"Liberal Media: AKA Mainstream" (from 10/8)
...plus a bunch of bumped up old threads about the Giants winning the SB because, of course, no one lives in the past the way Yankee fans and McCain supporters do (what's more annoying-"26 rings" or "maverick"?). The entire bottom of the page is anti-Obama threads, and there are very few actual baseball discussions going on there-although that's true even when the baseball season is in full swing and the Yankees are winning.
Sad, sad, sad, angry people...just a thought, but I would have had a lot more respect for John McCain at this point had he chosen ARod as his running mate.
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