Talking Baseball and Red Meat
Back in August I linked to Batgirl, the oustanding blog of a Minnesota Twins fan. With the Twins facing the Yankees this week in a best of five series, AllBaseball.com is running a series of email exchanges between the Batgirl and Alex Belth of Bronx Banter, and it lives up to the billing. This from Batgirl:
Yes, I know NYC has two baseball teams, but I?m pretty sure the Mets fans need help, too. Which reminds me: when you?re born in New York, how do you choose whether or not to be a Yankees or a Mets fan? Are you assigned at birth? Do you draw a name out of a hat, or maybe pick a number? Or do some people just like teams that spend absurd amounts of money and win all the time, while others find themselves inexplicably drawn to teams that spend absurd amounts of money and are kind of mediocre?And Alex:
So yeah, Yankee fans have a different kind of team to root for than you do, where fresh-faced young bucks pop up each season. Instead, we?ve got Prime A Beef. Aged beef. It?s Boffo, baby. Sheffield and Rodriguez and Matsui: Filet Mignons, Rib Eye, cherce Sirloin cuts. The entire team is beefy. Even a flaco like Mariano Rivera ? he?s flank steak.Me? I love red meat.