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[KeithHernandez]

I took a slice of crunchy homemade bread, hacked off some slivers of smoky gouda and sliced a turkey dog down the middle then piled the stuff on the bread and toasted it for lunch. It was delicious.

Well La De Da, look at you, eating yer turkey dogs.  Of course you don't care about the commoner.

(This post was mainly to say:  William Jennings Bryan- I don't know how to feel about him.  He seemed like maybe the person I agreed with most in the history of American politics in 1896, maybe racist but that would be in line with the times, then he had to do the whole monkey trial business.  I don't know if he was the best, just in my history classes what he was saying in 1896 made a lot of sense if I remember right.  Also, his last name is Bryan not Bryant, took me a while to get that down.  Doesn't seem right.)

[littlefallsmets]

Mets fans are bound by nature to hate the Yankees and the Braves. Maaaaaaybe if you recently became a Mets fan, you think you are bound by nature to hate the Phillies because they've been so recently dominant but you would be wrong.

It is difficult to hate the Cubs. They got a nice park and a lot of history and they're rarely successful enough to have any true emnity for 'em. If it is an extension of a pre-existing regional rivalry translated to baseball, as with the Cards or White Sox, I guess I get it but otherwise, it is difficult to hate any team so preternaturally doomed season in and season out.

I grew up and currently reside in extremely rural northern New York state and I'm a once-and-future Californian.

My attitude on hot dogs is less a regionalism and more just sort of an extension of my general "don't gild the lily" feeling on the topic of food.

If you got a really good food thing, why smother it in so many extraneous add-ons that you can't taste the food-stuff?

Mustard. Diced onions on special occasions. Anything more than that, I guess, why are you eating something you can't taste?

[theinevitable]

we must have really different taste buds.

[Choop]

two words: chili dog.

[miles]

Then is it Cubs fans who hate the Mets? I'm all sorts of mixed up.

[littlefallsmets]

Could be.

I thought they hated the Cardinals and the White Sox, though.

[KeithHernandez]

It's cool to like the guy, or even admire him. Like most all people examined by history, there are no absolute summations to be made, just the scales of balance rocking from one side to the next until the void.

Oh yeah, I understand that, notice the racist comment in my post.  It was just like, in one class we learned about turn of the century Bryan and I was all in to it.  Then, the next semester (or even the same), in a class that didn't really cover the same topics, we learned about the Monkey Trial.  It took me a while to realize it was the same dude, or even that those two viewpoints could go together.  Busy life I guess.

[pmcd9]

Just wanted to mention that Inherit the Wind with Spencer Tracey and Frederic March is one of the greatest movies ever made.

[theinevitable]

I was in that play! I played the Dick York part.

(Bryan campaigned against evolution because he thought it inevitably led to social darwinism.)

MAN SHALL NOT BE CRUCIFIED UPON A CROSS OF GOLD.

One of the funniest things I have said, I think, was a pun on that line, but... now I can't remember what it was.

[Lister]

Today I got home at midnight from work, and I'm up in 6 hours to do it again.  I'm reading this board and posting because my mind won't let me sleep without some wind-down time.

And I'm pretty convinced that my company's CEO is about to make (or, more likely, has already made) another in his series of horrible mistakes that has cost us close to 100 jobs and what financial stability we used to have.  So, there's that.

[JorgeFabregas]

Then is it Cubs fans who hate the Mets? I'm all sorts of mixed up.

No, it's Cardinals fans who hate the Mets.

[AugustWest]

I was in that play! I played the Dick York part.

It was much funnier than the Dick Sargeant part.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I used to really hate the Mets.  Now I mostly feel sorry for them.  But then I think of 1986, and I hate them again.

You know who I've really grown to hate the last couple years?  The Florida Marlins.  Those giraffey bastards.

[CortJstr]

I hate the Tampa Bay Devil Rays because they changed their name. I know literally nothing else about them. I just had to ask my coworker what sport they play.

[littlefallsmets]

1988 made me feel all kinds of better about the 1986 Mets.

But they were SO HIGH. They were SO fuck*ng HIGH. How can you hate a team that good that was so fuck*ng high?

The 1986 Mets were the closest thing there ever was to a fuck*ng baseball rock band. They were the closest thing baseball ever has to Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo.

Everyone was high out of their minds all the time except possibly Mookie and the Kid who, as the team choir boys, were probably merely drunk enough to kill three Tony Starks each.

Keith's food per-diem was basically PAID in coke. Dykstra, Christ, all modern steroids were probably created by backward-engineering the dude's urine.

There was something so transgressive about those motherfuckers that they basically spun the dial and became double-heroes, I dunno.