I know from reading other threads that there aren't many baseball fans out there. That's fine. I am. In 1998, I went to 11 Yankee home games including the 1st game of the World Series. In 1999, I went to 8 Yankee home games. This year I only went to 2 regular season games, but I managed to go to the second game of the ALCS when the Yankees beat the Mariners (last Wednesday 10/11/00).

My point to all this mindless writing? For the next few days any and all baseball fans around the greater New York Area will be in heaven. We will not think about the crisis in the Middle East. There is no Middle East. There is only baseball. We will not think of how some days our jobs are unfulfilling and somewhat shallow. There is only baseball.

I know that some people think that Americans are completly self-absorbed, and frankly I don't give a fat-frogs ass what people think about me. It is a joke in America that New Yorkers (I'm from Jersey so I qualify), are the most arogant people in the U.S. and that this series is not good for "baseball". The rest of the nation is not interested in a "Subway Series". And I can understand that.

Hope everyone enjoys the series, I know that I will.