Gothamist: Four and a Half Up, Two Weeks to Go

timbo

Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:53:47 -0500

jays next season!!!

Ima Littleteacup

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 22:43:16 -0500

SB: Well...uh... yes, that's my opinion. What else could it be? And let's take a look at those "facts" of yours....hmmmm!?! "Fundamentally racist"...(you seem to have a frame of reference from 30 years ago when that was indeed true).... ..."depressed post industrial wasteland"...Oh really!?! Is that what we've got here? Gee, whaddaya know. Learn something new every day. Funny, but everyone I talk to thinks it's pretty much the opposite of that. But as long as you assure me that it's a "fact"...I guess that it must be so. And, of course there's that corker about ..."intellectual communities." Has to be a ..."fact"...Who, indeed, could argue!? Where do you get this stuff? From the Yankees fan Web site? Ahem... OK, here's a real fact: you NYC guys have one HELL of a baseball team that gives us headaches. The Yankees know how to win...and our guys seem to have the concept of "choke" worked into their DNA. THAT's what really sucks. As for the rest of that stuff...if they're not facts, they must be...hmmmm....I know, it's "a New York frame of mind." (BTW...I'm enough of an old NYC hand that I once saw that song performed at a pub by the originators, "The Mark Almond Band"...not Billy Joel.) I apologize for insulting a place that your family has called home for so long. Really. It was a cheap shot. But you are right...I couldn't "hack it" there. My point is that I don't have to worry about "hacking it" here in Beantown. It's a wonderful place...an exceptionally nice city that's easy to live in and around. Tim N: If you look closely at this thread, the poor spelling won't seem to be coming from Boston... Nomar: Thank you for that, whatever it was. Have you been working on the obsessive-compulsive thing with the batting gloves? Still some baseball left guys. Not over yet.

Nomar

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:21:41 -0500

simply put, BOSTON SUCKS!!!

Tim N.

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 14:24:26 -0500

Hey, Ima... are you sure you're really from Boston? I didn't see any misspelled words in your posts...

SP

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:35:32 -0500

Fundamentally unliveable? I was born and raised here, my parents still live here, and most of my friends are also native New Yorkers. I know many people whose families have been here for many many generations. The greater metro area has 21 million people, so I think your "unliveable" statement is really just your opinion. what I stated above arent opinions or rationalisations, theyre facts.

Ima Littleteacup

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:16:32 -0500

Heh...you can have your so-called "superiority". Good on you, mate. Boston may be just a burgh in comparison...but your "capital of the world" is fundamentally unliveable. I sympathise with all those Big Apple rationalizations...really...but it doesn't change the fact that the city is...well..what it very obviously is. Relax, will ya. Methink thou dost protesteth overly much. Enjoy those Yanks.

SP

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 12:48:12 -0500

Boston can't hold a candle to New York, thats true. New York has defined business, art, fashion, politics and industry for the last 200 years, and the rest of the country, and the world, follows its lead. Our museums are better, our public transportation system actually works and runs alsmost 24/7 (its faster to walk in boston that to take the Trolley and after 12:30 youre fucked), our parks are bigger, we have more restaurants and a thriving nightlife, a broader spectrum of architecture, more artists and musicians, our intellectual community isnt nervously grasping at the teets of academia for protection and validation, there's much more ethnic and cultural diversity, which its celebrated and nurtured here instead of being squashed like it is in Boston, still a fundamentally racist city outside the pearly gates of its stodgy schools. Boston is a provincial college town at best, a depressed post industrial wasteland the rest of the time, constanly struggling with its inferiority complex in the shadow of the Metropolis. New York is the #1 city visited by tourists from around the world, with Boston a distant 10th. http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0778296.html Thats not by accident, when New York is a worldwide cultural icon, depicted in more films, books, songs etc than Boston ever will be. There is no question that New York is a hard place to live, but that comes with the territoy of being the capital of the world. You obviously cant hack it, but thats ok. I believe Boston has many fine points, its a fine place to visit, eat some chowder, and marvel at the endless red brick everywhere you look. But there is not as much substance there, just a lot of blow hards with (figuratively speaking) penis envy.

Ima Littleteacup

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 11:15:55 -0500

SP...Now that IS funny. A New Yorker calling Boston a "dump" runs the old irony meter right into the red zone. But, Hell...if a seemingly endless basin of filth and squalor is your idea of a beautiful city, well then, no wonder you are so fond of the Big Apple. Rats? Surely Beantown's little things cannot hold a candle to Gotham's marauding monsters. Come on. I've daily seen critters the size of small dogs from Times Square to the Battery...and all around my old Brooklyn neighborhood. Please... Glad you like being "home." It's a great place to visit...as long as you've got money...lots of it...and you will be getting away from the place once the fun is over. New Yorkers should bless their less-than-lucky stars that they at least have a team of the Yankees caliber. The populace needs something it can cling to, I suppose. Ima

Sterling

Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:57:19 -0500

Ah, crap - I just updated the Memefirst post, and thought I shut off pinging. Darnit.

SP

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:24:03 -0500

Funny, I lived in Boston for 6 years and I am soooo glad to be back in the City. That place is a dump. Half of it is built over a swamp and at night you see rats the size of small dogs jumping in and out of the bushes in front of all the posh stores on Newbury St.

Ima Littleteacup

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 20:05:06 -0500

Yeah... Well, up here in Beantown, we're used to it. Now, thank God, we've got the Patriots... ..and at least we live around one of the nicest cities in North America and not that hellhol ... um... big dirty inhuman place a few hundred miles south of here. I lived there for nearly five years...don't know how you folks can do it. Got to hand it to the Yankees though. They show up to play and win.

Tim N.

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 16:49:46 -0500

Re: MemeFirst...Sterling, you're a legend in Beantown! Reminds me of when I was in front of Felix, on WBway and Grand, when France won the World Cup. I'm coming around the corner and I hear this huge roar. People are pouring out of the bar like it was New Year's. I asked a cop on the corner, "I guess France won, huh?" And he said, "They finally won something."

3jane

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:28:42 -0500

I would also like to take issue with the photo MemeFirst does, only for different reasons. It does only say "since 1918," but those Mom-and-apple-pie-loving Americans might want to remember that France helped us fight the British to achieve our independence. Anybody got an idea why the heck those people thought to bring up France during a baseball game to begin with? Oh, and go Bosox. D-Lowe and Pedro tanked over the weekend but the season ain't over yet.

Tim N.

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 14:23:34 -0500

How can this be? Eight runs against Pedro? Two ten run victories? Against the consensus hottest team in baseball? How can this happen? Has the moon turned red? Will the hounds of hell be unleased? Is God still in his heaven? Actually God is there. He's having a beer with the Babe.

King Hippo

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 13:23:40 -0500

My favorite photo from the series has to be the one of the Yankee fan dressed up as Darth Vader while holding up a sign that read "Pedro, I am your father".

saltydog

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:18:04 -0500

I won a trip to NYC and tickets to Friday night's game. People in the bar here in Boston where the contest was held were pissed when I announced "This is awesome. I'm a Yankees fan, and I just moved here from New York, and now I get to go back home, and see the Yankees beat the Sox!" Guess they got their revenge on me Friday night....

Gothamist Kyle

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:51:53 -0500

Oakland, here we come. Have fun with Johan Santana.

u

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:38:48 -0500

It would be a stretch to say that france "won" anything in 1945. Most of the country was conquered and under German rule, until the United States and other Allies came to France's aid.

ed

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:31:24 -0500

Uh, didn't France actually WIN in 1918 (and 1945)? Clearly, the sign should read "Boston=Germany."

hstencil

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:22:03 -0500

that photo encapsulates just about every reason why I hate Yankees fans.

tien

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 11:01:39 -0500

ha, whoops. minor oversight. that's what i get for doing late night posts. yes, the red sox have 8 against the orioles and the yankees have 6 against the blue jays.

StarWarsTrilogy

Mon, 20 Sep 2004 10:51:47 -0500

Actually, Boston closes out the season with 4 more with the Orioles.