10-18-2004, 07:51 PM
my best friend was a Yankee fan his whole life, grew up North Jersey, had plaques of Mattingly all over his house, has full Yankee gear.
Went to school in Massachusetts, stayed a die-hard Yankee fan.
Moved to Boston and stayed a die-hard Yankee fan. Almost blew our house up in '01 when the D Backs won the series.
Moved back to Jersey two years ago, and gloated after last year's ALCS.
His big thing was that everyone whined about the Yankees just spending money to win the championships, when in reality it wasn't true. They drafted the core of their championship teams, and only recently did it change (Mussina, Soriano, Wells, Clemens), but they were still negligable.
After this offseason when Yankees' pocket books allowed them to get Vazquez and Arod, while also signing Sheffield and two great FA middle relievers to essentially buy the pennant, he turned sour, and now is a fan of the Red Sox becuase he likes their new Oakland A's type of FA acquisitions where they aren't trying to break the bank (which is odd because they did sign Foulke and trade for Schilling...but alas)
I think the big turning point for him was that the Yankees just bellyed up the bar and paid for Arod
Went to school in Massachusetts, stayed a die-hard Yankee fan.
Moved to Boston and stayed a die-hard Yankee fan. Almost blew our house up in '01 when the D Backs won the series.
Moved back to Jersey two years ago, and gloated after last year's ALCS.
His big thing was that everyone whined about the Yankees just spending money to win the championships, when in reality it wasn't true. They drafted the core of their championship teams, and only recently did it change (Mussina, Soriano, Wells, Clemens), but they were still negligable.
After this offseason when Yankees' pocket books allowed them to get Vazquez and Arod, while also signing Sheffield and two great FA middle relievers to essentially buy the pennant, he turned sour, and now is a fan of the Red Sox becuase he likes their new Oakland A's type of FA acquisitions where they aren't trying to break the bank (which is odd because they did sign Foulke and trade for Schilling...but alas)
I think the big turning point for him was that the Yankees just bellyed up the bar and paid for Arod