Heart: Why I Hate The New York Yankees

After my three part NFL Lockout I want to move to baseball since it is now baseball season officially. I'm going to use this opportunity to first explain that I hate the New York Yankees. With a Passion. I avoid drafting them on my fantasy baseball teams only because if one of the players is on my team, I feel like I must cheer for him and thus must cheer for a part of the Yankees. I have friends that are Yankees fans and they always say to me, "everyone hates the Yankees because we have more money than any other team." I want to make this very clear. I do not hate the Yankees because they steal, er buy, star players from other teams. I hate the Yankees because they don't win every game and every World Series while stealing, oh, my apologies, again I mean, buying star players from other teams.

Heart: The NFL Lockout, Part 3

Of course, the communication scholar in me wants to look beyond the situation and what has caused it and identify how the situation is being framed and portrayed by the owners, the NFL and  the players association. The rhetoric coming from the owners is, at best, accusatory toward the players. The blame game being spun by the owners should be no surprise if you’ve read the previous two posts of this blog. What is surprising in this situation is the reaction from the NFL who, for the first time during the bargaining period, are showing signs of heartlessness and ignorance toward the ultimate victim here, the fans.