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From: jeff@utastro.UUCP (Jeff Brown the Scumbag)
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Subject: Re:  Yanks fans and antifans
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Date: Mon, 3-Jun-85 23:36:29 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun  3 23:36:29 1985
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(Break out your fire extinguishers, folks: flame ahead.)

>   The major difference between the Yankees (or Cubs, Dodgers, and Braves, for
> that matter) is that I'M SICK OF SEEING THEM. They get *way* more coverage
> than they deserve, just because they are from New York (or on cable, or from
> LA, or on cable, respectively). 

RIGHT ARM, BROTHER!!!   I am VERY tired of seeing nothing but the New York-
L.A.-Chicago teams on the tube.  One can (and I have!) predicted which games
NBC will show successfully for the first half of the season just by going
through the schedule and picking out the big media center games, plus (just
as an admission of reality) throw in whoever made the playoffs last year.
The only time you go wrong is when the network gets a night game rescheduled
to the afternoon!  I'm convinced that it just about broke their hearts last
year when they had to break down and show Minnesota once or twice because
they were in a pennant race.  I'm perhaps more sensitive than others to this
because I'm actually a Seattle fan (no greater futility exists, except maybe
falling in love with a lesbian) and I see a Mariner in a game on TV exactly
once a year (the token everybody gets in the All-Star game); the last time
the M's were on TV here in Austin was in late August, 1978.  A team which is
not the Yanks/Mets/Dodgers/Angels/Cubs/WhiteSox almost literally has to
get to first place and stay there a month (preferably September!) to be
seen anywhere but on their own networks.

Seriously, I suppose I deserve what I (don't!) get if I'm irrational
enough to root for Seattle.  But there are a total of 26 major league
teams, and it's too bad you only ever see ten or so of them.

Jeff Brown the Scumbag
Astronomy Dept., U of Texas
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