All I want sports-wise is to see a Yanks-Phils World Series and the Giants in the Super Bowl. Can I have that please? What’s on your wish list?
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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i want a million dollars. that solves literally 100% of my problems.
even $100,000 would be enough.
sports wishes:
As long as Stanford loses the Big Game, I don’t care how it does in the rest of the season.
A job. A painless divorce. A house of my own.
Ouch. Feel better!
Can I wish for that for you too?
A 10 year old that doesn’t imitate me.
The Lakers have already won, so a Dodgers World Series and a Patriots Super Bowl win would be fine by me.
Alternatively, a 100K money windfall would be nice. More than nice, actually.
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I want to get to a Dodgers game before the end of the series. Running out of time..!!! Nothing like a good ol’ Dodger Dog outside…
I’m sorry to be the one to tell you this, Boo, but…
No, you cannot have that.
(Bonus: ∃ an NFL team with a worse record than the Lions in 2009)
Oscar – that’s my list. Minus the Steelers. A life time in Detroit has turned me off of professional football. Of course, if we had a pro team in Detroit…
PS, I was at the Joe in 1997 the night they laid out the Flyers.
Your best QB in my lifetime was Eric Hipple. Nuff said.
I’m so not disputing that. But, I’ll be damned if they don’t sell out on a regular basis.
I gave up on the Lions in ’78 – last 2-14 season that I could stomach at the ripe old age of 10. The Cowboys irked me to no end with their “America’s Team” crap (“I’m an American; they’re not my team!” cried the anguished 10 year old) and the Steelers beat them down, so I jumped on the Steelers bandwagon and have stayed there ever since.
Still hate the Cowboys.
I wish the Lions well – loved Billy and Barry – but I don’t put any emotional stock in the Lions as a team.
Boo, your wish list would make ESPN very happy. But for those of us not on the eastern seaboard, who already have to contend with national networks whose coverage of the country gets kinda anemic west of the Appalachians (excepting Lebron & Kobe), it’s b-o-r-i-n-g.
Me, I’m just hoping Washington state doesn’t produce two of the worst teams in college football history in 2009 (unlike 2008). And yeah, as a former Detroiter, seeing 100 hung on Notre Dame this weekend, or really any weekend but especially this one, would be sweet.
Maybe it is because I am a sucker for tradition, but I can get into a World Series that involves the ancient teams that have been successful in the past. Put the Cardinals, Giants, or Dodgers in the World Series and you’ve got my interest. I’d be thrilled to see the Yanks play any of them, as it would bring back memories of epic contests from the past.
But the Phils would be great because that’s where I live and most of my friends are Phils fans, and I kind of like them, and they’re a good team with character.
Just don’t give me the Rockies. That’d be as lame as playing the Padres or Diamondbacks or Marlins.
I dunno, having the Rockies win 32 of 34 (or whatever their insane streak was) to get into the playoffs and then to the WS is a story that trumps tradition for me. Same for Tampa Bay’s rise from franchise oblivion last year. Tho I’d love to see the Cubs get in some year (tho it obviously won’t happen this year), Just Because.
As long as success didn’t turn Cubs fans obnoxious, ala Red Sox fans. (I can say this. I’m married to one.) And after a decade now of having every friggin’ regular season Red Sox/Yankees game touted as The Most Meaningful Rivalry Ever, I’m done with both of ’em. I’d be thrilled at this point if the Orioles or Blue Jays could set up a dynasty.
The other problem I have with tradition, specific to baseball, is that it correlates awfully closely to which franchises have a huge financial advantage. How much of the Yankees’ success is smart management, and how much is the luxury of a $200 million payroll? It doesn’t guarantee success, of course (c.f. the Mets, or, for the reverse, Tampa Bay), but it sure helps.
FWIW, that’s the same reason I root against Notre Dame football: a tradition-filled franchise that pays its players far more than most of its rivals can. (Except USC.)
I just wanna see Haynesworth get run over by Jacobs a few times on Sunday