01-06-2003, 07:18 PM
Quote:Obvioulsy no one gave a shit about the Angels except themselves and Yankee haters. I didn't watch an inning of this World Series and from the ratings neither did anyone else
I'll give you the other stuff (well, not really, but it is reasonable), but this ain't so.
Mets v Yankees WS didn't get ratings outside of NY either. baseball in general is down.
Not everyone is a Yankee lover or Yankee hater. There are plenty around the country
who perceived the Angels as an underdog (which they weren't) and as a good story.
Gammons point (which you can argue) is it is better to win with a young team that comes into their own rather than the best team money can buy. You can argue "A win is a win". fair enough. But it isn't necessarily just an "anyone but the Yankees feeling".
Quote:Didn't we experience that in 1996 when we came back from 2-0 and beat the braves in 6 or in 2000 when we kicked the Mets ass or the year they won 125 games.
Most fans I know would say yes to the first and no to the 2nd. '96 was long in coming, and must have been refreshing. 2000 was nice, but not the same as 96, since Yankees were overwhelming favorites going into it. But that's just my view from afar.