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Not to inflame passions in here, but nothing like a good tiff between New York fans.

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JA, you could never masquerede as Timmy P.!

How many personas does Johnny Twisto have in BRef? 🙂 He could be any one.

"I do appreciate irony, and so, have gotten a good laugh, out of watching this "East Coast Bias" thread, (d?)evolve into a Yankees/Mets thread."

Nash, I have recanted my original position, but your point is well taken. However, the Mets/Yankees dialogue sprang up genuinely spontaneously, not deliberately.

To be fair, John Autin, in my view, goes out of his way to find interesting statistical tidbits about all teams, not just NY ones.

JA, was right when he reminded Andy not to knee-jerk about postings when he said "But just because a lot of people scream "East Coast bias!" when their team doesn't lead SportsCenter,....".

And Andy has committed to looking for interesting stories around baseball.

I'm glad BRef will never become the ESPN of baseball sites, pandering to the biggest markets in deference to its advertisers.

Speaking of ESPN, are we not watching two of the three biggest 2010 payrolls on Sunday Night Baseball? It is hard to see a bias when you are part of the "inner circle".

I'm waiting for ESPN or Fox to put Arizona vs Pittsburg or Kansas City vs. Toronto on their game of the week. (Not!!)

A comprehensive Rizzuto poetry anthology would put him in the league of Wadsworth, Cummings, and Dickenson.

He was the best kind of Homer.
Scooter noticed that whenever he read birthday announcements the Yanx seemed to rally; so he would wait until the later innings when they were up at bat to say Happy Birthday to Rosie in Paramus.
Of course, this was usually during Road games, because when they played in the Bronx he would be on the GW Bridge in the 8th inning to beat the traffic.

And he mentioned cannolis at least once a game.
And at least once a week Winfield would take a mighty cut and get a piece of the ball, and Scooter would go "And there it goes! That ball is outta- wait, no, pop up to the shortshop. White, I thought that one was outta here."

In one sense, as a MN fan, and no longer resident, of the East Coast, I have full understanding, of the frustration at "East Coast" bias. I'm even reminded of this, in my postings on here- between being 6 hours behind NYC, and working afternoons/evenings, I'm often posting on a day's post, far behind everyone else, only a couple hours before the next day's posts go up. (Not that I have any great revelations to share....*smiles)
On the other hand, however, it only makes sense, that there is East Coast bias. Facts are, the East Coast is an enormous population center. Thus, more people care, about NY, Red Sox, etc, than, say, the Twins. It's just numbers. And, so, media, reflects this, plays to this fact.
The best way for "out of the way" franchises, to nullify this fact, is to WIN. Find five people, who know what the "Twins" are, who don't know who Kirby Puckett is......

Nice, reading the various histories, of fandom. Having grown up in Jersey, the '93 Phillies, to me, will always and forever be the best team that waddled the face of this earth. I bailed on baseball, though, for a long time after '94, as well. McGwire and Sosa (knowing what I know now....ugh) brought me back a little in '98, but it was only after I wound up in MN that I started to follow it seriously again. And now here we are:)

Know that this has been a looong post, but Andy, or whomever, if you haven't done it before, I think that a terrific topic, for this site, (if it hasn't been done already), would be something like,"Your life/history/memories as a baseball fan, what baseball means to you", or something to that effect.

Even if it is through Randy Savage, we are all connected to this game somehow:)

It took a while, but he grew on me.... Somehow, his helplessness became endearing; at least twice a game, he had to call on "White!" to bail him out of something or other.

BTW, there's a funny little book called O Holy Cow! The Selected Verse of Phil Rizzuto. They're not poems consciously written by the Scooter (thank god!); they're just transcripts of game calls, laid out as verse. One of my favorites is titled, "White's Secret":

You know what I did?
I forgot
I don't like your lineup card, White.
I like mine better.
But unfortunately
I left mine at home.
I did not bring today's lineup card.

So I borrowed one from Bill White.
He's the professional type.
You know, Martin?
He's got all...
I can't figure half the stuff on this card.
Why you need it.
But he does his homework.
He does it well.

But anyway,
Oh yeah.
He's got the highlights.
He's on the ball.
But where Kunkel's name is ninth,
I put the strikeout by Brower.
Oh, he jammed him.
Foul back.
What happened?

For instance, I'm starting to suspect a connection between "Timmy P." and "Timmy Patrick" -- each has a strange obsession with Matt Garza's beard.... 🙂

BTW, if my name ever disappears from these threads, keep an eye out for someone named Matt Garza's Beard, Dick McAuliffe's Batting Stance, or Eduardo Carocio....

Spoil sport.
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from 1983-86, Met fans multiplied

This was my experience as well.
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And on that night in 1996 when the drought ended I was not even aware of the event..........It is odd, now, to not have a visceral relationship to that reference point in history.

That title is easily my favorite Yankee moment. Sorry you were boycotting MLB. I can't stand spoiled Yankee fans (or most Yankee fans, period), but I've probably become spoiled myself. I'll never appreciate a WS win as much again unless it's preceded by a similar period of difficulties.
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JA, you can knock Sterling and Kay as much as you want. BLEAHHHHH.

2) and yeah, just playing the part of the superior yankee fan with the hat thing. navy blue vs kindergarten blue was a place that the argument often went back in the day.

- glad you got to enjoy '96. It is odd, now, to not have a visceral relationship to that reference point in history.

BTW, I don't really get the thing about the hats -- but whatever your complaint is, I'll grant you that point, if you'll just do one of the following:

(1) agree that John Sterling is the most annoying radio broadcaster in the history of the medium; or

(2) concede that the "N" and "Y" in the Yankees logo are not actually "interlocking," but merely overlapping.

Deal? 🙂