Is Bucky Dent really  the reason Casale is so miserable?

It’s time to kick it up a notch.

The Yankees have returned to the World Series and that means all of my energy goes towards rooting for the Philadelphia Phillies starting this Wednesday.

A lot of people hate the Yankees but I may hate them more than anyone on the planet. I root against the Yankees almost as hard as I root for the Cowboys. It’s very close.

I consider Luis Gonzales’ game-winning hit off of Mariano Rivera one of the greatest moments of my life. I remember after Gonzales’ flare landed and the Diamondbacks won the Series, I had tears of joy running down my face.

My cousin then turned to me and said, “Man, you really do hate the Yankees.” I do. I despise them.

Of course I was once actually a Yankees fan when I was young. My favorite player was Bucky Dent and he even sent me an autographed picture. So when Dent was traded to Texas for that bum Lee Mazzilli and replaced by an even bigger bum, Roy Smalley, I vowed to never root for the Yankees ever again.

Not only have I kept that promise but I have devoted my life to rooting against them. While having them in the World Series is dangerous because they are now just four wins away from another championship, I do admit that it makes things more exciting. Rooting against the Yankees in the World Series is one of my greatest joys in life.

Of course, over the last decade the Yankees have been a joke. Rivera blew the save against Arizona, they lost as heavy favorites to Florida, both the Angels and Tigers hammered them in the playoffs and, of course, who will ever forget the biggest choke job in sports history when the Yanks blew a 3-0 lead in the ALCS against the hated Red Sox?

So as I prepare for another monumental battle and throw all of my support behind the Phillies to keep the Yankees streak of choking and underachieving alive, I would like to take a moment to remember some of the baseball greats from the last decade that have provided me with so many memories. They include:

Sandy Alomar
Chuck Knoblauch
Josh Beckett
Troy Glaus
Pudge Rodriguez
Curt Schilling
Dave Roberts
Big Papi
Johnny Damon (Red Sox Version)

There are many others but those are the ones that will always hold a special place in my heart. So who will be next? Jimmy Rollins? Ryan Howard? Chase Utley? Cliff Lee? Shane Victorino? Baseball immortality awaits.

Let’s just hope that I don’t remember Brad Lidge or things probably didn’t work out the way I was hoping they would.

By the way, my wife is a Yankees fan and this will be the first time she experiences them in a World Series with me. Don’t kid yourself. If she roots too hard at the wrong time, I will kill her and bury her in the backyard.

This is war and war has its casualties. I will take no prisoners in my quest to taste the tears of Yankees fans all over the world.

Like I said, it’s time to kick it up a notch. Go Phillies!

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