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   Joe Minotaur said, 4 months ago

   Lookin’ for love in all the wrong sports teams…

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   Lewreader said, 4 months ago

   And my love doesn’t realize why nothing happens when she wears her Yankee shirt to bed

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   bald 716 said, 4 months ago

   who cares what team she is for…. it’s a woman who LIKES sports. she’ll probably watch any sports program or go to a game with you

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   Sarah said, 4 months ago

   Since I don’t follow American sports, why are followers of these teams a bad thing?

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   nighthawks said, 4 months ago

   well, looking at the context, it must be the ‘bad guys’ teams….
   since the germans were the bad guys…..
   so these teams ,if one was conducting a poll, would be picked as the most hated teams,for whatever reason, by a large portion of the country’s sports fans…..

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   ChukLitl said, 4 months ago

   Those teams tend to be winners, so they deserve respect. The Germans did o.k. in the early rounds, but couldn’t handle the play-offs.

   Re: razorback’s critique below; the Nazi’s pregame pep rallies cost them the Jewish scientists who could have given them nukes. The mongrel Americans & Soviets kicked their racially pure behinds.

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   razorback2824 said, 4 months ago

   ChukLitl (Genius), I’d edit that comment if I were you. People might get the wrong meaning out of it. I know it was supposed to be a joke, but others might not get it and say horrible things about you.

   She tried so hard, but a true sports fan can spot a frontrunner easily. I bet she likes USC football and Duke basketball, too.

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   Sternvogel said, 4 months ago

   Sarah:

   The Yankees have won more World Series titles than any other baseball team, and have been helped by the fact they’ve had rich owners (brewer Jacob Ruppert and his heirs from 1915-45, shipbuilder George Steinbrenner since 1973) who have earned the club the description of “the best team money can buy”.

   From 1949-53, the Yankees won the Series five straight times. After missing the Series in 1954, they appeared in it the next four years (winning twice), missed 1959, then made it every year from 1960 to ‘64, winning it all in ‘61 and ‘62.

   That’s 14 appearances and 11 Series championships in 16 years. No wonder that someone (accounts of just who it was differ) observed that “rooting for the Yankees is like rooting for U.S. Steel” - no underdogs stood a chance of knocking off the big dogs in either case.

   Some fans of the Yankees point out that they stuck with the team during the “lean years” from 1965 to 1975, when the club never made the playoffs. Compare that “drought” (or the similar one that started in ‘82 and continued through ‘94) to such streaks as the Chicago Cubs’ (last won World Series in 1908, last played in Series in 1945) and Cleveland Indians’ (last Series crown in 1948, no playoff appearances from 1955 through 1994), and you begin to see just how much the Yankees’ fans have been spoiled by their team’s success.