But I am cheering for the Phillies. The Yankees have won 26 World Championships. The Phillies have two. Plus, the Yankees beat the Pirates in the 27 World Series. The only thing the Phillies really did was get lucky that the Pirates didn’t sweep the last series of the season in 1978. And I wasn’t even alive for that…

Now the Braves. I hate them, for 1991 and 1992.

I feel a surge of Bostonians about to invade this place. And I say, welcome brothers, in the fight against the evil empire.

I’m down at University of Delaware and its going to be crazy around there this week considering the large New York population down here. This weekend is homecomming as well so its gonna be nuts. Phils in 5, maybe 6.

I have to root for the National League team. I’m tired of people always making fun of the National League and their pathetic offenses. So here’s to Howard and Company taking it too the Yanks.

Also Pedro Feliz will always be a fan favorite in San Francisco ;-)

I don’t hate the Yankees. I hate the way the media fellates them and how they trump every other MLB team for broadcasting.

And there’s the ass-whipping the Phillies took in the Bobby Abreu trade a few years back

can’t hate the yankees for that, stupid phillies front office valuing a player based on ‘fan appeal’ than actual value

I started this in the ALCS (I am a huge angels fan, but also a big phillies fan)…

http://www.halosheaven.com/2009/10/15/1087076/why-do-you-hate-the-yankees

   1. Jeffrey Maier (1996 ALCS)
   2. “Holy crap! Let’s panic, the yankees lost three in a row. they won’t make the postseason” – ESPN
   3. King George
   4. self righteous fans (the ones below)
   5. fans who don’t know their team- only follow because ‘jeter is cute’
   6. fans who don’t know their team -only follow because they win
   7. fans who don’t know their team -if you ask them who their 2b is they have no idea
   8. their wag (and who they are having an affair with) get as much attention as the team
   9. fox
  10. tbs/fox/espn trying to suck up the yankees money (or trying to steal YES money)
  11. everyone ignoring what the yankees were in the late ’80s

I’ll admit up front that I was rooting for the opposition in the NLCS, as well as saying that every team I’ve rooted for so far in the post-season has lost, just so you know what’s climbing aboard your bandwagon.

But that said…I loathe the Yankees just for who they are (even if I don’t entirely mind the particular elements of this year’s squad as much as I disliked the players in the late 90s). They’re that squad that has so much more money than any other team, and has to flaunt it. Big free agent on the market, who’s first in line? The Yanks and the Red Sox. Last year’s two big prizes were Texeira and Sabathia, and look where they are now. Lining up in pinstripes. As a Wisconsin resident, I enjoyed the 6 weeks of CC that got the Brewers to the playoff before your boys exposed the Brew Crew in the NLDS.

On a more personal level, I loathe George Steinbrenner, an Ohio State bastard if there ever was one. A few years ago, the University of Michigan had a quarterback named Drew Henson, a local kid making it big in the Big House…until he was lured away by the filthy lucre waved by the George. The kid never made it as a third baseman for the yankees, he just wasn’t good enough as a baseball player. And long after he ditched his chance to be the biggest man on campus in Ann Arbor, he made a return to football, going to, of all teams, the Dallas Cowboys. He was a flop there, too, and I believe is not employed by any NFL team. But that’s another reason I hate the Yankees, for the way their owner swooped in and took away our quarterback.

Heck, I could say something about how Saint Jeter himself was once ticketed to play shortstop at the University of Michigan, before the dark side seduced him and he went into the death star that is the Yankees Organization instead.

As you’ve noted, it’s not often that Philly is the underdog in anything. But this time, you’re up against the biggest dog there is in sports, and I have to say, it’s fun when the big dog is forced to trun tail and go whimper in the corner. I;m hoping that will be the case by the end of this series.

And finally, as a Tigers fans, and a veteran of the Brantorino campaign, I say to you…

GO PHILLIES!

And take the Jets with you.

…long time admirer of the way your team plays ball, that’s the first thing.

My other half spent the summer working in Philadelphia (or thereabouts – she was in Paoli) on placement from London and returned bedecked in Phillies gear telling happy tales of Citizen’s Bank Park (I’ve yet to drag her to Anaheim, so I may have to accept a loss on this one), that’s the second thing.

But, thirdly and most importantly, I detest the Yankees and everything they stand for. I firmly believe that the world will be a poorer, less happy place if they win – there is a direct correlation between the happiness of Yankees fans and the likelihood that society as we know it will implode.

Winning isn’t enough Philadelphia, they need to be humiliated.

Please tell your pitchers that they are not, under any circumstances, to intentionally walk A-Rod. Rather, they are to hit him in the ribs. Every. Time.