If you’re a Yankees fan and feel the need to rub it in that the Sox engineered the worst collapse in baseball history (as if I were capable of feeling any worse about it) here are some pointers.
Don’t Straw Man Me
Yankees fans love to do this. LOVE. This is how it goes. They find some douche bag Sox sportswriter and quote him as if he speaks for Red Sox fans, then throw it in my face when he’s wrong.
Shaughnessy is the usual go-to guy for this because he writes such nonsense. I guess people who aren’t Sox fans don’t realize that he’s the biggest tool working in news today and yes I’ve heard of Fox news. Shaughnessy’s goal is to antagonize Sox fans. Whatever he writes is pretty much the opposite of what every Sox fan thinks and feels. Tony Massarotti is a close second, especially with this jackass article he wrote
The current one being thrown around is this NESN article from Jan 2, 2011. The first hint that something’s fishy is that this article was written by a TV station, but whatever. Also I’ve never heard of Eric Ortiz and the only reason we all now have is that he wrote a bullshit piece of link-bait.
The money quote from the article:
The 2011 Red Sox could accomplish a feat that has never been done. They could unseat the 1927 Yankees as the greatest major league team of all time.
Quoting this back to me now on September 30th doesn’t “get” me or “show me” anything. I didn’t write that shit. I never thought that shit. Had I read it at the time I’d have called it what it is, horse shit. Only someone desperate for click throughs would write that nonsense. And only an idiot would think showing me this article humiliates me in some way.
I suppose if your only goal is to make me angry it succeeds on some level but only because I get angry that I have to explain basic logical fallacies. You don’t think I could find some article from YES.com to throw in your face? I’m certain they must have produced a “Yankees Legend” piece on Joba Chamberlain back in 2007.
But I won’t. Because that shit’s too easy.
There’s a million legit things to throw in my face right now, but don’t straw man me.
