In fact, I’m all in favor of it, particularly when it’s entertaining, which is why I read your blog. I’m not happy with the Yankees’ play against the Red Sox, either. And there are reasons to be concerned, particularly if the Yankees have to meet Boston in the ALCS. I’m not denying any of that.

What I do have a problem with is the people who are running off to root for other teams when the going gets rough. People who are saying that the season is over now, in June. People who are going to just give up on the Yankees now that they’re in an “insurmountable” two-game hole. That, to use our friend Rosebud’s trademarked catchphrase, is truly pathetic.

What can you do about it tho? Fire everyone? Send A-rod to jail? Root for the Mets? root for the Sux?

WHat else can you do but say ’we’ll get em next time’? Why cry about it? Why get outraged? What the hell is it gonna do.

What true fan says that the season is lost cuz they lost 8 in a row to the Sux?

It does suck yes, no doubt. I agree no one should feel OK about it.

But there’s a lot of games to go and a lot more to play against the sux. That’s the only way you can go about it, nothing else really makes sense.

So if you know a few Red Sux fans (maybe they are belittling you too much?) just agree with what they say.

Cuz this series is too even for them to keep doing this. If you payed attention to these games its really obvious that the Red Sux are NOT 8 games better than the Yankees. They are pretty equal.

I know! I’ll put $100 on the Yankees losing the next Boston series, just to demonstrate how sure I am about them losing to the Red Sox this season, which shows how disgusted I am with them being dominated by their rivals, which proves how much of a Yankee fan I am. Somehow.

Clever use of the word “sycophant,” by the way—the preceding “hey” really showed your mastery of using it in a sentence. Telling people to look it up seems pretty childish, though. A little like, say, a schoolgirl trying to impress her classmates with her well-endowed vocabulary.

But by all means, please continue to run around as though the sky is falling, bemoaning the last series against the Red Sox. The rest of us have moved on.

There’s really nothing to do from here other than to wait and see.

I also apologize for all the harsh words flying around of late; we’re all Yankee fans here (except for the Red Sox fans), and there’s no reason that we can’t all just stop arguing and root for the team for a while.

And no, I didn’t have to look up “sycophant,” but only because I had an idiot classmate last year who tried to use the word at least once in every discussion section. That and “juxtapose.” There was no way I was going to forget the definition after a semester of that.