I mean, c'mon they are making a movie about the most hated baseball team in all of history. And Babe Ruth?!? are you kidding me? Babe Ruth was an alcoholic womanizing piece of dirt, hardly a role model for the kids watching this movie.
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the yankees pwn d00d.
Well, there is one advantage to being me. Something you can never imitate, having you for a friend.
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lol but they sure are making a hell of money selling yankee hats. but its funny cuz a lot of the guys i know wear yankees hats and they dont even like the baseball or the team. they just wear the hats cuz its a trend...same thing with the damn sagging pants.
shareCough cough, new billion dollar stadium, two hundred million payroll, can just pay for new players in case of an injury.
(No, I don't have my St. Patrick's Day Red Sox hat on my head, whatever would give you that idea?)
Top 3 movies of 06
Snakes on a Plane
Clerks II
V for Vendetta
(Honorable Mention: Silent Hill)
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shareWILL YOU ALL LISTEN TO YOURSELVES????!!! DO YOU REALIZE THAT THIS WAS THE MOVIE THAT CHRISTOPHER REEVE, A REAL LIFE HERO, WAS WORKING ON WHEN HE DIED??? WHAT IS YOUR ISSUE!!!????
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Everyone was all mad when Fever Pitch was made because it was about the Red Sox and so many people were boycotting it. Well, I'm choosing not to see this movie, not only because it looks horrible, but the kid is wearing a Yankees hat. And yes, I am proud to say that I'm a Sox fan and that I don't boo my team, unlike the Yanks fans do.
shareWell said, nin veleth. Let's boo our OWN players because they are underperforming scum. Although A-Rod deserves to be booed wherever he goes.
shareOK, to not see a movie just because a character in it wears a certain thing is just plain dumb. This movie isn't about favorite teams or anything like that. It's about lessons in life. And what about it looks horrible? I can't see anything wrong with it. All I see is a movie made from a man's dream, a movie for anyone and everyone, and a movie that actually sets a good example for kids. I mean, no bad language and very little violence, if any? What's wrong about that? I may have low standards in movies, but I have not seen one bit of proof to see why I should not see this movie.
Oh, and by the way, I'm a Braves fan. I don't boo my team or any other team, either. And I'm still going to see. I think it looks cool.
"It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me." - Bruce Wayne, Batman Begins
I despise the Red Sox but it wouldnt keep me from seeing a movie... although I didn't see Fever Pitch because I hate Jimmy Fallon and think he may be about as good an actor as Uwe Boll is a director.
Btw have fun not watching the Red Sox in the playoffs
GO YANKS!!
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I'm a New Yorker and i don't particularly like baseball, however i thought the fat, ugly Red Sox fans depicted in Fever Pitch were an accurate representation of the real thing, as I go to school in Boston. If you don't agree, try living 2 blocks away from Fenway Park. Even when the Sox are losing the fans are just as obnoxious and cocky.
P.S. Red Sox fans are a joke. And the Red Sox will never be as great a franchise as the Yankees. Ever! I don't know much about baseball history but the history of the Yankees franchise speaks for itself.
are you from boston? That would make alot of sense
shareThe problem is, making a film where the Yankees are the underdog is like trying to convince people Wal-Mart is struggling to stay in business. Why do you think other baseball movies picked hard luck franchises? Major League had the Indians who haven't won the World Series since the fifties (and at the time of the film hadn't won the AL Pennant since the fifties either), Rookie of the Year had the Cubs (no World Series win since 1908, yes 1908, and no Pennant since the forties) and when Fever Pitch was remade for the U.S., that was before the Sox won the series (the ending was redone on the fly as a result). Everyone knows how succesful the Yankees are and have been (just ask one of their fans)so even in a film involving a talking baseball and bat, the idea that the Yankees are the underdog is too much to accept.
sharewhere did it say the yankees were the underdog?
sounds to me like hes trying to save his dad's bat by finding an important piece of baseball history. How does that make them the underdog?
and you people are quite pathetic. Not seeing this movie because he wears a yankees hat is like not watching Friends cause they live in NY, or not watching City Slickers cause you hate the mets. I didnt watch fever pitch but that was due to the over hype sickening my stomach after they won. Had they made a movie called everyone's hero where a kids dad works in fenway park and is trying to get back Ted Williams bat from when he hit .406 id see it...
The Yankees are underdogs because the fate of the World Series is all dependent on this kid getting the bat back to Babe Ruth, because, according to the film, Ruth needs it to hit well again. Of course in real life, the kid would have to revover a bottle of whiskey, or save Ruth's favorite hooker, or save the local hot dog plant from closing, but I guess that factual error is only a minor detail. And if someone wants to boycott Friends because it takes place in NYC or City Slickers because of the Mets hat, they have every right to, even if the logic is stupid.
shareNevermind the Yankee Bashing, which is hilarious comming from a Red Sox fan, yeah, they only have the 3rd highest payroll in baseball, really struggling for money.
But Babe Ruth was and is the greatest baseball player of all time period. If you disagree you simply don't know the stats.
The Yankees can still win when three of their best hitters are on the DL not because they have the money but because they know how to spend it, unlike Theo Epstein. EI - Javy Lopez, Josh Beckett, Coco Crisp.
Yeah, I really can't say that the Yanks suck because I am a Cubs fan and we don't even spend our money. No, our organization has decided that it's okay that we suck and that we shouldn't spend any money at all on getting better pitchers who won't get hurt. Sorry, just ranting about the Cubs' abnormally abominable season. I propose the Tribune Co. sell us to someone who knows how to spend their money.
Jerome: I got the better end of the deal. I only lent you my body - you lent me your dream.-Gattaca
sksimpson brings up yet another good point. People complain about buying up all the talent in baseball when you got teams like the Marlins whose pay roll is LESS then the money they get from luxery tax alone, you can criticize steinbrenner all you want but at least he gives a crap about his team's performance. (And just cause the yankees try to get the most out of there buck in trades and free agents doesn't equal championships, it's about chemistry people, stop complaining about payroll)
I love the comeback "yankees suck" by the way, it perfectly demonstrates the feeble eight year old mind that red sox fans and other yankee fans all have.
If you're gonna hate them at least be honest and say "yankees are the best" and that is why you hate them.
Seriously, why is there even a Yankee Vs Red Sox argument here. The Red Sox have won what, 4 or 5 world championships in their existence, while the Yankees are on the verge of their 27th, thats right becasue Boston CHOKED and got swept in five straight games and got themselves kicked out of any possible playoff spot.
shareRed Sox have one 6 - 1903,1912,1915,1916,1918,2004...gotta know thy enemy (well really i'm just a big fan of baseball)
but yet another thing that annoys me is how red sox fans always say like "oh the yankees choked so bad in the 04' alcs" what? Are they forgetting every year before that since 1918 when they managed to blow it? i mean really, I was happy for red sox fans when they finally won the world series, honestly i was. I thought "well now that they've won maybe they'll be a little less obnoxious and a little more respectful towards other teams. But no, all the 04' series did was make them arogant on top of already being bitter and obnoxious.
The Yankees have always been the all American team. They are the difinitive baseball team that has come to define American sports. The players gave our troops the best moral boost they could get back in World War II with Mickey Mantle's all-star homeruns and Joe DiMaggio's trips on Barnstorming Tours, the Yankees helped America win the war. THE METS WERE NOT EVEN BORN YET!!! The Yankees are the best baseball team in the world, end of story!
sharethe Yankees helped America win the war
Even though it's off topic, Willie Mays is the best player ever.
shareI didn't even know people said that the Met's were "America's Team"...really the only team I could say is repeatedly called that is the Cowboys (whom I can't stand).
And no, Babe Ruth is the best player ever, You need to look at the amount of records he broke and set when he played and just how much better he was then everyone else. Willie Mays was great but Babe Ruth was simply playing at a different level.
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They call the Braves America's team,I have no idea why. Red Sox fans are not only obnoxious, they are the biggest whiners out there. It is never their fault when they lose, its always a curse or a payroll or running over a gypsy on the way to the stadium. Well have fun watching Pig Sloppy and Manny the crybaby golf during the postseason. Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Its not fair! Wahhhhhhhhhhhhh!! I'm taking my ball and going home!
Ok and this "curse" may be the stupidest thing I have ever heard. Why the hell would Clemens taking dirt from that dump Shea's pitcher's mound unleash a curse? I could see if all the Yankee's started doing yayo with Keith Hernandez and his moustache, then yeah, maybe they do have the curse of Shea. But the reason they have not won the World Series since 2000 (thats less than 10 years btw for you slower folks out there) is because....
...they were beaten fair and square! Yeah imagine that, the better team won! Crazy right? No excuses, just thats the way it goes. Lets see a BoSux fan step up and admit defeat without using the word payroll. Never gonna happen.
In any case any of you watching the Yanks in Division Game 2 tommorow, look for me in Field Box Section 81. I'll be the guy in the Yankee hat watching my favorite team in the playoffs!
GO YANKS!!!!
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Go Red Sox?
Go where?
To the 19th hole for a few cocktails?
Maybe you can scream go Red Sox at the Golf Channel, sounds like fun but I'm off to watch the MVP play some October baseball, hopefully for another 5 for 5 night!!
GO YANKS!! (considering they are IN the playoffs I feel pretty good saying that)
I love how this thread has lost any semblance of intelligence, special thanks to the Met fan (when was the last time THEY won the world series?) for derailing it.
And since the Yankees are most likely going to win the World Series this year I would get the cheap shots in while you can, of course when all you say is "yankees suck" and never give any real reason why it doesn't matter how good you really are.
If you're referring to me, all I did was laugh derisively at a rabid Yankee bandwagoner who said that "the Yankees helped America win the war".
See, not all fans of teams other than your own are obnoxious.
Supermodels...spoiled stupid little stick figures mit poofy lips who sink only about zemselves.
I have been posting on ESPN.com about Everyone's Hero just to even things out...
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Despite what 99% of the population believes the year 2000 was the end of the century and millenium not the start. back in 2000 we were IN the 2000th year. that year has to end for an actual 2000 years to have gone by. If you don't believe me go to this page on Wikipedia explaining it. That means the Yankees have no rings this Century.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/21st_century
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Do you think he wants some cheese?
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So by telling people facts is instigating something?
The year 1900 was in fact the last year of the 19th century and not the first year of the 20th century. Just because many people believe that the 20th century started in 2000 doesn't make them right. In fact those people are wrong. The 21st century started in the year 2001. It is a fact. Like it or not the Yankees haven't yet won the World Series in this century.
For example. Many baseball fans believe that Abner Doubleday invented baseball. Doubleday had absolutely nothing to do with inventing baseball. He was simply a famous civil war general. Does the fact that many ignorant people think Doubleday invented baseball make it true? No, it doesn't
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I wasn't talking, I typed. So now your reduced to making fun of spelling errors. That means I won the argument. I checked some of your other posts and saw quite a few spelling errors in them. None of the other posters resorted to bashing your spelling. Anyone can hit the wrong key, including yourself.
You'll be on ignore from now on. Enjoy your trolling.
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Just reiterating how much the YANKEES currently SUCK despite their ENORMEOUS payroll.
Yankees SUCK, Yankees SUCK!
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just to update... it's 2011, the yankees still have more Championships than second and third place combined. Regardless of jealous sox fans who think 2004 equates them with 100 years of dominance... it doesn't.
Over the 100 years of the world series, the yankees have 28 titles. Thats 1 every 4 years, over the span of 100 years. This isn't even including the 1900's-1920's, or the 1980's.
Whether or not you love them, hate them, or pretend they aren't all that... the yankees are a phenominal franchise, and easily at the helm of the best Sports franchise in history
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