The Classic was Classic, but not as Classic as Mr. Classic

Let me first drop kudo's on Young Sip for the title of this blog. Nice work Young.

Then I want to give a big shout to Upper West Side legend and my boyhood hero BOAFOMG for the longest response in the history of Yankees2000.

I promise you I will get into the Bannister vs. Heilman debate later this week in a post-counterpost with AFOMG, as I know we have differing opinions.

As for Big Al in the first inning, all I can say is Game 6 1999 NLCS... Dead on BOAFOMG.

As for your third paragraph. There must have been 14 words/ideas that I totally didn't understand. That said, I would love to be GM of the 2006 AL Champion Indians one day, but Mark Shapiro is a genius and should be there for some time.

So that was yesterday. Today we talk about how "The Classic was classic, but not as Classic as Mr. Classic."

Last night marked the end of the WBC. In the end, it didn't really do much for me, but it wasn't all bad. In fairness, one thing I loved seeing was the pride of the other countries (that is, nont-US teams) in the Classic.

It was a beautiful thing as a sports fan to watch the national pride of all the Latin countries so unambiguously displayed. In the place in the world where baseball means the most, it showed and it was really nice.

Americans, like myself, love their teams. I love the Mets.

These Latin countries love their players and their country. It is obvious during the season when fans come out to watch their favorite players play and it was completely obvious during the WBC when Americans were busy watching the NIT as the rest of the world shutdown for 17 days of the WBC.

The Classic also ended in as classy a celebration as I've seen. I've never been a big fan of Japan. Blame that on WWII, Pokemon, or whatever it is, but my feelings definitely changed watching their win.

They won with class. Not with the bullshit class of the Yankees.

They shook each other's hands, hugged their manager, and were gracious in victory. Maybe I'm getting older or more mature, but I really thought it was nice to see.

Watching Ichiro pose for pictures with two Cuban players was just, well nice.

So as I said, the class was classic.

But nothing can top Mr. Classic.

So AFOMG shot me an e-mail yesterday that read " alk about stories that you never thought you'd see."

Well this week it happened. As reported in the official newpaper of Y2K, The NY Post (Editor's Note: Questionable, Sip, questionable), our old friend and favorite hater of all races and sexual preferences has apparently turned over a new leaf.

John Rocker, AKA AFOMG's Clone, was spotted this weekend at some NYC hotspots, promoting Spike TV's worst show ever, Pros vs Joes, with a lovely co-ed at his side.



Nothing unusual there I suppose, only the co-ed was not who you would expect...

The co-ed was African-American.

Almost impossible to believe, right? First he pitches for a team in New York and now he's dating a black woman, this from the guy who was quoted calling a black teammate a "fat monkey" and that "The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. I'm not a very big fan of foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?"

So forgive Young Sip if he was caught a little off guard by yesterday's headline in Page 6:

"Rocker Pitches to Black Babe."

Johnny Rocker. You sure are a moron.

Don't get me wrong, I think it is great that you are giving women of other races a chance. No reason why you shouldn't. But imagine this.

Imagine if you acted like this 6 years ago. You wouldn't have been hated and put under the national microscope for all the wrong reasons, and it's altogether possible that you wouldn't have gone crazy, flamed out, and fallen out of baseball during what should have been your prime. Not to mention that you probably would have gotten far better tail as a premier closer in bsaeball than you would as opposed to a recovering "diehard racist" and washup.

So Johnny, glad to see you've changed your ways, but you are a real idiot. Some things never change I guess.

VCD,

SM