New Jersey Baseball Trash Talking Thread

by: Hopeful

Tue Sep 01, 2009 at 04:04:10 PM EDT

At 83-48, my New York Yankees have the best record in baseball and, more importantly, a good lead of 6.5 games over the Boston Red Sox. Yankees fans are feeling good, but you know the old saying: "The 27th Championship is the hardest one."

The defending champion Philadelphia Phillies are 75-53 and have a commanding 7.5 game lead. It's weird to see happy Philadelphia fans, but it sure beats listening to the count of the years since a championship in four major sports. That makes South Jersey a better place since last November.

The Mets look like a disaster at 59-72. Tell me why there's reason to believe.

Now, I know some of our readers are bored by the above, so for them, I provide this AFI video of Alfred Hitchcock explaining how to make baseball interesting: