Well, now I have serious href="http://www.cantstopthebleeding.com/?p=11416"
target="_blank">doubts about Rudy Giuliani. How anyone can trust
him with grand issues of our time when he can't even get simple
baseball fan guidelines right? We've all heard about Hillary's "I've
always been a Yankee fan" nonsense. It's frequently repeated because
it tells us something deeper about her character. How you conduct
yourself as a sports fan tells us plenty about you. href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0767924320?ie=UTF8&tag=davidharsanyi-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0767924320"
target="_blank">We all know Giuliani wants to be our daddy. Now this
tells us that Giuliani is also clueless or a depraved panderer -- or
worse: not a real Yankees fan.
"I'm rooting for the Red Sox," Giuliani, owner of four Yankee World
Series rings, declared during a campaign event in a Boston restaurant,
prompting thunderous applause."I'm an American League fan, and I go with the American League team
- maybe with exception of the Mets," he said. "Maybe that would be the
one time I wouldn't, because I'm loyal to New York."
Ugh. Not a real Yankees fan. There are many rules to being
a true sports fan for any club, as Bill Simmons points out href="http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/020227"
target="_blank">here. Now, Simmons doesn't even take the time to
mention that a Yankees fan never ever ever roots for the Red Sox (or
vice versa) because there is nothing more obvious on God's green
earth.
(Incidentally, Giuliani's "loyal" to New York Mets twaddle, as most
New Yorkers know, is also completely idiotic: Simmons rule #
20: If you hail from New York, you can't root for the
Yankees and the Mets. You have to choose between them.
Repeat: You have to choose between them. Don't give me this "As long
as one of them is doing well, at least New York is winning" spiels.
What is this, the sports fan's version of bisexuality? How about
making a choice? Any New Yorker who said the words "It's the Yankees
versus the Mets ... I can't lose!" during the 2000 World Series
deserves to be tortured with a cattle prod.")
Here is a true Yankees fan, just so we href="http://www.nypost.com/seven/10242007/news/regionalnews/rudy_the_yankee_flipper.htm"
target="_blank">get this thing straight: "Any Yankee worth his
salt cannot root for the Red Sox under any circumstance at all.
Period. End of story," said Ken Schlesinger, 44, a lawyer from the
Upper East Side.
End of story.
*Headlines stolen from the always irascible
New York Post.