[NU Sports] Damn Yankees!

[Dennis W. Brandt]

When did the New York Yankees start wearing purple?  Did the Wildcats play a 
football game last Saturday?  (Some say no and that they may not for the 
rest of the season.)  As far as baseball playoffs go, GO TIGERS!  They're 
perenniel underdogs.

If the Yankees are the most storied baseball team in history, they are also 
the most hated, and I'm on top of that list (along with the Dallas Cowboys 
in football).  Watching them lose is a joy.  What unmitigated arrogance on 
Frankensteinbrenner's part even to consider firing a manager who has a team 
in the playoffs year after year, a manager who would be gobbled up at any 
price by another team the moment he becomes free to negotiate.  On the other 
hand, I can't hate the Mets.  I still vividly recall 1962 when they were so 
eminently loveable and Casey sat in his rocking chair asking, "Can anybody 
here play this game?"  After this past season, though, I could learn.  Next 
year, the Phillies win the division.  Remember that you read it here first.