long live whichever team knocks the Yankees out of the playoffs!

so. i was getting ready for work this morning & had ESPN on for some background noise. just as i was about to shut it off, they played a commercial promoting the MLB playoffs, which start today. it zeroed in on a dejected Red Sox fan. and then it proceeded to encourage everyone whose team did not make the post season not to abandon hope. because now is when we all band together & root for the Yankees to lose. (or such was the gist. remember, i still wasn't entirely coherent enough to retain this information word for word, but the point was *not* lost on me!)

heh.

so much for being "America's team" huh? even ESPN (though they have some vendetta against the Red Sox and also got in a shot at reminding RSN that we are *not* enjoying playoff baseball in 2006) is soliciting an anti-Yankee rally among the fans of MLB. whether they are genuine in their ill-wishes for NY or not, no advertising campaign, not even the ones that make Peyton Manning look like an even bigger doofus than he manages to do on his own, has ever sounded sweeter in my ears.