Shh - No "Yankees Suck" in the Library
By Trav Flatt
Since my dialup connection is on indefinite suspension status due to my ISP’s unreasonable demand that they get "paid", my weekend mail check-ins are courtesy of the public library’s computers. So, there I was peeking in to see the comments that brought to mind the highly entertaining visuals of Pedro flinging himself at the movie screen, my wife reading over my shoulder. This being a new column, she was not familiar with this particular site.
"Yankees Suck?", she mused aloud, "That’s kinda mean." She has a tendency to be a very nice person, and would not dream of talking about something that sucked sucking unless it was absolutely certain that nobody would overhear her and think she would think such a thing. It’s all very complicated, which is why I cheerfully remain ignorant of this whole social dynamic.
Anyway, the POINT is that the guy sitting directly to my left chimed in: "Well, that’s sort of because they DO suck. Go Sox."
And THEN, the guy immediately to my right started to get bent out of shape: "Man, you don’t want to just go blurting OUT something like that."
Thus, they proceeded to begin debating whether or not the Yankees, technically, sucked. Meanwhile, my wife and I got up and left them to their squabble to go to a bar. In any event, and I’m still working on having a point here, this all occurred in a Public Library in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This indicates that the ‘Yankees Suck’ connection has a national audience.
