If Rudy will sell out on this one, then NO ONE SHOULD TRUST HIM as president.
"Bronx Jeers for Giuliani, Now Rooting for the Red Sox" by ALAN FEUER
[Yankee fans already hate him (just like most New Yorkers)!!!
They BOOED him at the GAME!
And if this guy goes up against Hitlery, he won't even win New York!
And yet, he's got the best chance against her?
He won't even win his home state!]
As he moves about the country campaigning for the White House, Rudolph W. Giuliani is not always kind in describing where he comes from. New York City, he will say, is a tough town, hard to govern. It’s liberal to a fault and unruly as a child.
Now, however, there has come what is for many the true unpardonable insult: Mr. Giuliani has declared he will be rooting for the dreaded Boston Red Sox against the Colorado Rockies in the World Series, which began last night. From the Bronx to his childhood haunts in Brooklyn, there was a baffled anger bordering on rage.
George Patsin, a Brooklyn restaurateur:
“They should burn his seat that he sat in at Yankee Stadium — how’s that? They should burn it on TV so I can watch.”
[Yeah, I'm a Sox fan, so I know exactly how you feel about it, Yank fan.
I NEVER root for the Yankees, ever, and have been quite pleased at their demise this year.
We are STILL PLAYING!]
It would seem that the timing is particularly galling to the faithful in New York. Bad enough that Joe Torre, the manager, is gone. Bad enough that half the team might follow. But Rudy cheering for Pedroia and Ortiz? It was, in short, too much.
Freddy Schuman, who for nearly 20 years has been showing up at Yankee games and banging on a frying pan with spoons:
“The word I’d use is ‘stunned.' I tell ya, I just can’t understand how a Yankee fan like him would all the sudden go for the Red Sox. It must be politics. I don’t get it. How do you do a thing like that?”
[Which means that Rudy is a LIAR!!!! Tells you what you want to hear!]
The betrayal hurts the more because if one were forced to pick the premiere New York fan, Mr. Giuliani would top the list.
He is a fan’s fan — a man whose very organs are likely etched with pinstripes. As mayor of New York, he used to wear his cap to City Hall. He is known to schedule political events so as not to miss a ballgame in the Bronx.
[Then why does everyone HATE HIM?!?!]
He once told Diane Sawyer he was fairly certain that God himself was rooting for the team.
[Now I know he's nuts!!!!!!
Doesn't God have more important things to deal with than the BALLGAME?!?!]
By way of explanation, Mr. Giuliani couched his shift in loyalty as support for the American League. (“I’m an American League fan and I go with the American League team,” he told reporters — not coincidentally — in the primary state and Boston neighbor of New Hampshire.)
[Shifting loyalty? Like a FLIP-FLOPPER?
Rudy the FLIP-FLOPPER?]
Kebrae H. Scott, 30, a maintenance worker who wore a Yankees cap as he was heading to his home in the Ebbets Fields Apartments in Brooklyn near where Mr. Giuliani grew up:
“I thought he was loyal to New York.”
[No, that's ISRAEL, dude!]
While it’s clear that fans develop an allegiance not just to a ball club, but a league, the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry is so embittered it’s hard to imagine any situation in which a fan of Mr. Giuliani’s stature could root for the sworn enemy of a beloved hometown team.
Mike Francesa of “Mike and the Mad Dog,” a program on WFAN radio:
“It’s what you do when you run for president, I guess. When in Rome, act like a Roman. I’m sure if he was stumping in Colorado next week, he’d be rooting for the Rockies.”
[Right!]
To be sure, politicizing baseball is neither something new nor a partisan problem, as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has found out. She tried to split the difference between the Yankees, her adopted team, and her favored Chicago Cubs — a case of double loyalty for which Mr. Giuliani gave her grief.
[Like I said. Neo-Cons, Neo-Libs, no difference]
Perhaps because the moment seemed so ripe for turnaround, the anger was decidedly unsubtle when The Daily News and The New York Post both ran doctored photographs of Mr. Giuliani on Wednesday in a navy ball cap with a bright red Boston ‘‘B.” “Traitor!” claimed The News. The Post, on its own cover, was equally damning: “Red Coat,” it declared.
Some politicos suggested that Mr. Giuliani may have confused the Red Sox with a red state.
Maurice Carroll, director the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute;
“This is a major story. Rudy Giuliani endorses a team from Ted Kennedy’s state? A state that was once headed by Mitt Romney? Rudy Giuliani is a great American in many ways, but he must have simply lost track in this case. He’s got to win red states like Colorado and he comes out in favor of Massachusetts?”
[Yeah, kind of a stupid political move, huh?]
To the former mayor’s credit, there are some who think it’s fine for a Yankee fan, in a time of need, to cheer the Sox.
George Manesis, who runs a sports bar, Billy’s, near Yankee Stadium:
“It’s not that big of a deal. He’s going for votes now, plain and simple. But I don’t think he’s a traitor for doing that.”
[Well, one guy is gonna vote for you, at least, Rudy]
None of this would have merited a mention had the former mayor not been so expressive of his passion for the Yankees (and his hatred for Red Sox). He once told reporters at a City Hall briefing:
“What can I tell you? This is me. I’m a Yankee fan. I love the Yankees.”
[Not anymore, huh, two-face?
That's what happens when you GRANDSTAND -- like on 9/11!!!!]
And he confessed to Glamour magazine last year:
“The only tattoo I would ever consider getting would be a Yankee tattoo.”
[Hey, that was last year!
He's getting a BoSox one this fall!]
Of course, his most revealing comment on the subject was perhaps the answer he provided to The Providence Journal in Rhode Island when asked, this June, if he would agree to be president if it hinged on his becoming a Red Sox fan.
Giuliani: “I have great respect for people who really are fans of the team they say they are fans of, but probably that’s a deal I could not make.”
[Then you won't be president, Rudy!
Sox Nation is a VAST group of VOTERS -- as their road game followings attest!
The Red Sox are actually like Ron Paul!
Coming from behind with a MASSIVE FOLLOWING!!!]
"New York papers offer Giuliani a Bronx cheer" by Sally Cragin/Boston Globe October 25, 2007
It's possible that Rudy Giuliani picked up a few votes in Red Sox Nation, specifically the province of New Hampshire, by proclaiming Tuesday that he'll root for the Sox in the World Series.
[Nope! You'd get about as many votes as A-Rod, jerk!]
But back home in New York, where he is perhaps the most famous Yankees fan, his declaration is doing as well as a Mariano Rivera cutter about to be launched over the Green Monster by Manny Ramirez.
"Traitor," blared the front-page headline yesterday in the Daily News. "Redcoat," complained the New York Post.
Giuliani, during a news conference in Boston, said he wanted to support the American League champion against the National League's Colorado Rockies. The former New York mayor is also locked in a tight battle with former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney in the New Hampshire primary.
But in June, Giuliani said he wouldn't make a deal with the devil - become a Sox fan to become president.
Giuliani, told a columnist for the Providence Journal:
"I'm a Yankee fan. My father made me a Yankee fan . . . I have great respect for Mets fans, Red Sox fans. I have great respect for people who really are fans of the team they say they are fans of. But probably that's a deal I could not make."
[I have respect for Yankee fans, but not for shit-spewing NaZionist servants like you, Rudy!]
