TwinTownBisonFan wrote:JoltinJoe wrote:
Let's do an objective comparison between New York City and its best-known suburb:
Food:
NY -- New York Sirloin Steak
Phil -- Cheesesteak (with Cheez Whiz)
Notable Institution of Higher Learning:
NY -- Columbia University, a prominent comprehensive research university
Phil -- UPenn, a prominent football factory.
Tourist attraction:
NY -- The Statue of Liberty
Phil -- A broken bell.
Great holiday tradition:
NY-- The tree-lighting at Rockefeller Center.
Phil -- Booing Santa Claus.
Culture:
NY -- Broadway, Lincoln Center.
Phil -- Rocky.
Memorialized in Song?
Ny -- Frank Sinatra.
Phil -- Elton John.
Skyline defnied by?
NY -- Empire State Building; Chrysler Building.
Phil -- Comcast Center.
People:
NY - you know that one ******* from the town you grew up in? yeah, he moved to NY - the city comprised of 14 million "that one *******"
Phil - unsophisticated, but passionate and good natured children of immigrants. the kind of city truly loves it's own and has a hearty "**** you" attitude toward the rest of the east coast (just like the rest of America does)
fans:
NY - spoiled **** who pretend their franchises are any kind of special and all-fire sophisticated - mock "hicks" whilst dancing to "cotton-eye joe" and playing baseball in a billion dollar mall, a 50 year old arena or North Jersey...
Phil - fans with the passion to give a ****, even when their team loses. boo lack of effort, and stupid-ass contrived stunts (like the TBS announcers... they were booing for EVERY SINGLE FAN outside of NY and LA) (ps, they CHEERED Brad Lidge got behind him - knew he was struggling, and SUPPORTED him... little reported because it flies in the face of the Philly reputation)
rowdy fans:
NY - "bleacher creatures" due to absurd Yankee ticket prices, even these guys are **** investment bankers...
Phil - the 700 level - nuff said.
teams:
NY - a franchise that has spent 2 billion dollars this decade on payroll - with just as many WS titles as the Mariners, A's, Giants, Dodgers, Padres, Rockies, Rangers, Astros, Rangers, Twins, Brewers, Cubs, Tigers, Braves, Rays, Orioles, Nationals, Pirates, Reds, Indians and Blue Jays.
Phil - the reigning World **** Champs.
the philosophies:
NY - everything that is wrong with baseball - insane ticket prices, corporate EVERYTHING, douchenozzle players looking to make a buck, a manager who is a human rain delay - something no other team in baseball would even be allowed to do...
Phil - tons of homegrown talent (Utley, Rollins, Howard, Chooch, Hamels) a few key trades and risky free agents that panned out (Lee, Werth, Ibanez, Victorino, Feliz)
let's see if the umpires continue to be surrogate Yankees in this series... thusfar, they're the MVP's for NY.
