jeffrey emerson can’t think

I’m a New York Mets fan.  I’m a New York Knicks fan.  Yea me.  Doomed to root for the underdogs.  I lived in New York for six years, when Alllen Houston got the bounce against the Miami Heat in ‘99 before they got stomped by the David Robinson Tim Duncan San Antonio Spurs.  I was born in Colorado, my football team is the Denver Broncos.  I never loved a baseball team until the New York Mets.  Iwatched the Subway Series in Soho.  A year later I watched the New York Yankees play the Arizona diamondbacks from a bar on west broadway, about thirteen blocks from ground zero.  Only time I ever rooted for the Yankees.  I think all of us were rooting for the Yankees.  The diamondbacks won, with the unit, Randy Johnson, and I will forever hate that team, even more than I hate the dreaded Atlanta Braves.  Since I rooted for the Yankees, they haven’t won a pennant, much less a World Series.  The only time I rooted for the Boston Red Sox was against the New York Yankees.  I listened to that comeback on the radio, while I was painting the house of an obsessive compulsive.  The Red sox won, after coming back from 3 down and a 15 run loss.  They went onto win the World Series in a sweep, breaking the curse of the Bambino, winning the Series for the first time since 1918.  I can’t root for Boston in 2007.  They’re too good.  I’m rooting for the Cubs, who will certainly lose to the Arizona Fuckbacks.  I can’t root for Colorado, even though I was born there, because I haven’t been with them the whole time.  I was dying for Yankees Red Sox, but the Yankees can’t hold up their end of the bargain.  So who do I root for?  The Mighty Ducks?  Pushing Up Daisies on ABC?  I rooted for Deadwood for three seasons, and HBO pulled the plug on that, it was too expensive.  Do you know David Milch wrote on Hill Street Blues?  Do you know he created NYPD Blue?  I’m rooting for the fourth and final season of Battle Star Galactica.  To win the World Series in six.