mackle...

this is Mackle...

you want to be him, you know it...

shit, if i wasn't already me, i would want to be him...

mackle lives a life of leisure in Wilmington, NC with his wife Betsy. He is a provocative thinker and top-notch idea man as well as being a co-creator of Throwball...

what is paramount and of most important in Mackle's dossier is that he is a Sunnyside, Queens native and a lifelong Mets fan...

before we go any further down this rabbit hole, i'd like to

point out that this piece is not about the better team—Mets or Yankees. Currently the Yankees lead their division and the Mets are slowly metamorphosing into a Triple A team...

now in fairness let's be clear, if the Yankees lost Derek Jeter, Mark Texeira and since your outfield is about as good as Pony League baseball team, and neither Brett Gardner nor Melky Cabrera and, for that matter, a combination of the two could equal Carlos Beltran i'll add in Alex Rodriguez and you lost a set-up man in your bullpen, your #3 starting pitcher for the season and your #4 starting pitcher for two months (although i'm not sure Ollie Perez was ever with the team, even now) do you think they would be battling for first place in the American League East? The answer is no, and for those of you who would like to point out that A-Rod was out for the first month or so of the season, shelve, the Yanks were middle of the road at best without ONE of their best players let alone 3 out of their best 4. Yes, on August 5, 2009, the Yankees are better than the Mets...

all that said, the Yankees suck...

they do, everybody knows it, i'm not breaking any new ground here. Now I could give you the pad answer i give to most Yankee fans for why i don't root for their team, like the growing up in the late '70s and early '80s and the being antagonized by the constant drone about how the Yankees had their 20 some odd world championships and they've sucked cock better than any other team in baseball and so forth. And then when the Mets were good in the late '80s all the Yankee fans disappeared and they disappeared well into the '90s except for a select few die-hards who continued into the '90s droning the same old tune. Fine, great history. The Yankees have been around 60 years more than the Mets, they should have more championships. That doesn't mean they don't suck...

the Yankees are killing the game of baseball, and they have for some time. Their ownership has been feeding the greed of sub-par players through free agency longer than any other and with steadfast fervor. The only time they didn't is when they were leading the charge in collusion from 1985-87. I'm not saying they shouldn't try to get the best players for their team, but if they are going to do so they should play by the rules. There is a luxury tax in baseball, the higher revenue teams are required to pay the lower revenue teams a percentage of their revenue to offset big market advertising money and what not, and the Yankees, at the top of the list, pay their share—at least that's what they would have you think. Pepsi has been the official soft drink of Major League Baseball since 1997. The Yankees cut a deal with Coke for their old stadium. None of the money from that deal counted towards the luxury tax. Nor did the money from their deal with Addidas, an endorsement no other club has. Yes, because of their history they are a prime market for these corporations, but what the Yankees did was circumnavigate the rules. Its this attitude that the Yanks are able to do whatever they like and get away with it and then be able to brag about it. Its insane behavior. By a baseball team and by their fans and after ll this money they still asked the people of New York to pay for their stadium, and even threaten to move to New Jersey if they didn't get our cash. Our cash, not Yankee fans cash, all of our cash. That takes balls the size of the Empire State. And yes they are an empire onto themselves, steamrolling through game and leaving a dreck in their wake...

i love baseball, and the Yankees are killing it. That sucks and they suck and that doesn't change because they are in first place...

i root for the Mets, i am no fanatic. My viewing of baseball is done from a keen and learned eye of watching, playing, umpiring and coaching for a large portion of my life. I know the Mets are the red-headed step child here in New York, I embrace it. There's honor here in Queens. i wouldn't root for the Yankees is they were the only show in town. Ask old Dodger and Giant fans about the Yankees, they'll tell you the same story...

this whole post was inspired after Mackle posted his disdain and disappointment about how the Mets lost the other night on facebook. Mackle, ever the pragmatic Met fan needed to release the demons of a poor season and let his feelings be known. Apparently that rolled the red carpet for Yankee fans to tell him to change allegiance, to switch to the dark side if you will. i chimed in with my pat comment for all Yankee fans—Yanks Suck. And they do, and it makes the Yankee fans get all riled up. They are so easy...

and as for history, the Yankees are about to demolish it. i plan on pissing on the ashes. The desperate signings will come, like when they signed Danny Tartabull and Jesse Barfield. They'll start over-running each other on the base-paths and blow a 3-0 lead in an LCS again. How are all those Yankee fans going to explain the losing, year after year, that is in the cards for them? That curse—long gone. You have your own curse now and he wears the #13.

bring up the history. Their history is gone, it happened...

and Rod, its going to take more than two pitchers. Enjoy the suck...