Elephants in Pinstripe Clothing

Of course they were pumped by Mussina pitching that perfect game for 6 innings, but Yankee fans proved why I could never be one tonight. Any time Mussina got close with a pitch on a 2-strike count--and by close I mean Posada was able to catch the pitch--the crowd groaned at each called ball as if someone knocked over their grandmother and stole her bingo money.

Please. Enough entitlement. You've won more World Series than any other team, so at times a call might go against you. Sometimes it actually should.

And then they dragged out that damn Irish tenor to warble his way through "God Bless America" for the seventh inning stretch, and reminded me how much they were co-opted by that video before Bush's convention speech that sort of went like this: 9/11 = New York = Bush = Yankees/Jeter. So more than anything I dislike the Yankees because at heart they're Republicans.