Sometime early this year I made the following threatening statement, “I don’t care what the hell I’m doing in the fall! If the Yanks win the World Series, then I’m coming home for ticker tape!” Fast-forward several months later and I enjoyed my Yankees 2009 World Series Ticker Tape Parade through lower Manhattan! I attended the Ticker Tape Parade when the Yankees won the 1996 World Series, but I really don’t remember much because I was 8 years old at the time, and I wasn’t the die-hard Yankee fan that I am today.
I must say the planning for everything was quite hectic! I couldn’t even book my flight from Syracuse to JFK until Mariano Rivera entered the Game 5 because I didn’t want to jinx anything! Also I had to make sure that my sister could drive me to the airport and make her class Thursday morning, I had to see if my Dad could leave work for an hour to pick me up at the airport, AND find someone to go to the parade with on Friday (which turned out to be my Mom)! Needless to say everything worked out perfectly!
The sky was baby blue and there wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I was on Broadway next to the Wall Street subway station with over 2 million other die hard Yankee fans. We waited for hours, but certainly kept ourselves busy! There was the infamous toilet paper toss across the street, confetti throwing and silly string spraying, and of course trying to spot the best signs – which included: “I’m Your Daddy,” “Marry me Jeter, my boyfriend says it’s OK,” and many others that would get me fired for writing about them! Another classic was a fan had a mini, red, Phillies coffin with a Baby Pedro with the inscription “RIP Phillies.” Also with the Philadelphia bashing was a red cap with a white “P” being thrown into the street. This lead many fans to tear, spit, and write all over it. Needless to say it didn’t even look close to being a baseball cap by the time it went 20 people down!
All of us where shaking with anticipation by the time 11am came by, and the entire parade seemed like a blur. Thanks to pictures I do remember the following – Yogi Berra is incredibly tiny, Governor David Patterson and Mayor Michael Bloomberg were the only people to get the infamous Bronx-jeer, there was a special float for the Bleacher Creatures, while people were in awe of Jay-Z throwing up “the roc” on one particular float it took us fans a minute to realize the dude with the fedora and sunglasses was A-ROD!, fans chanted “One More Year” for the floats carrying Johnny Damon and Andy Pettitte, Derek Jeter got the loudest ovation … until Mariano Rivera came rolling by, and the World Series trophy in the hands of the Steinbrenner family was a beautiful sight that never gets old.
Now over the past week I’ve heard many non-Yankee fans say “Congrats on buying your 27th Championship.” To that I say … I rather have an owner who spends money back on the team, than an owner who pockets it! All I can say for myself is that this World Series was something I’ve been waiting for nine years for, and it was worth every win, every loss, every week, everyday, and every second.
“The Yankees win! Theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Yankees win!” -John Sterling
I’m literally in tears. My Yankees have won the World Series! I’ve often talked about my love affair with the pinstripes and how I’ve been a fan since birth. But, I haven’t been a “hardcore fan” aka watching every game and pining over every pitch since about 2002. I’ve been waiting for this moment for years and it is finally here! Thanks to everyone who reads this blog and knows how much my Yankees mean to me!! 
and oh by the way, Game 6 hero Hideki Matsui is named the World Series MVP. 
More to come later …
peace
the chick
The 2010 NBA season is finally here, and of course all the typical talk of the big three of Boston, the aging Spurs, and LeBron, Shaq, & Co in Cleveland is occurring. But the team that we are forgetting about here are the defending champs themselves, the Los Angeles Lakers. In 2009 the “Lake Show” won their fifteenth NBA title by beating the Orlando Magic in typical Phil Jackson and Kobe Bryant fashion.
Also, a lot has happened with LA this off-season: they acquired NBA resident lunatic Ron Artest, Pau Gasol (and all his ugliness) actually has an acting gig on CSI: Miami airing soon, and renewed Lamar Odom married reality star Khloe Kardashian after a few weeks of dating!
All the craziness aside the Lakers opened their repeat bid with their home opener against the LA Clippers. This game also meant that the Lakers received their 2009 Championship rings. Here’s the rundown from NBA.com:
Bling that’ll blind — The ring is comprised of 15 diamonds weighing in at 2.85 carats.
Over the top? Yes, but well deserving in my mind. The Lakers essentially “stayed put” with the status of their team, but if that means staying at the top, then so be it. I have no doubt that the Lakers will repeat for 2010, but in the world of the Sports Chick it’ll be interesting to see how that ring looks!
In the world of sports media, or media in general, you are supposed to be objective. But, F**K that because my team, my YANKEES ARE GOING TO THE WORLD SERIES!!!!
and oh ps- CC SABATHIA NAMED ALCS MVP. 
Filed under: NFL
Going into their Bye Week this week the Denver Broncos continue to shock most football analysts and fans by joining the Indianapolis Colts as the remaining two undefeated teams in the NFL. What I think is most shocking about the Denver Broncos are those hideous Nesquik looking throwback uniforms that they are wearing for a good part of this season. Not only are they diverting from their pretty sweet looking blue and orange uniforms, but they even have socks when worn different ways can look like a checkerboard, vertical stripes, or my favorite a swivel straw!
So why are the Broncos making themselves look like the Nesquik Bunny instead of a rough tough undefeated football team? Well, blame it on the 50th Anniversary of the American Football Conference – more specifically the American Football League. 2009 marks the 50th year that the eight original teams of the AFL were formed, and they are: Boston Patriots (now New England Patriots), Buffalo Bills, Dallas Texans (now Kansas City Chiefs), Denver Broncos, Houston Oilers (now Tennessee Titans), Los Angeles Chargers (now San Diego Chargers), New York Titans (now New York Jets), and Oakland Raiders.
Now the eight teams, thankfully, will not be wearing the hideous throwbacks every game in the 2009 NFL, rather they will be worn when these teams go head-to-head. For those of you who want to look like a fool, then you can purchase your teams throwback uniform through the NFL’s Legacy Collection website. However, I strongly suggest that you stick to today’s fashion and wear hunter green (not blue and maze) to support the Jets, and wear a “KC” hat for your Chiefs and not a logo of the state of Texas, and please don’t purchase the swivel straw socks from the Broncos, that is unless you want to be the Nesquik Bunny for Halloween!
Seriously have you ever met a kicker that was actually a bad ass? Most football enthusiasts consider the kicker or punter position the most (insert your own word here) in the game of pigskin.
HOWEVER, Steelers Kicker Jeff Reed continues to f*** tradition and go on with his bad ass ways! Late last night after the Steelers victory over the abysmal Cleveland Browns, Reed took to McFadden’s Bar just minutes away from Heinz Field in Pittsburgh. Unfortunately for Reed he was cited by Pittsburgh police for being a drunken fool!
I say go on with your bad self Jeff Reed and show the world what NFL Kickers are really made of! Also, If you really wanna see Jeff Reed and all his glory, then google image search “Jeff Reed” … you’ll be shocked that this guy is actually a kicker!! HAHAHA
I may be one of the few University of Texas fans in New York State, and that 16-13 Longhorn win in the 2009 Red River Rivalry made every Hook ‘em Horns fans leap for joy, but you couldn’t help but feel something for Oklahoma Sooners QB Sam Bradford.
Bradford, as any college football enthusiast, knows won the 2008 Heisman trophy and could’ve easily followed Matthew Stafford and Mark Sanchez into the 2009 NFL Draft. However he decided to come back for his senior season like the Longhorns QB Colt McCoy and the legend of Florida, QB Tim Tebow. To any account Bradford coming back after a Heisman win is risky, but he wanted that ring. He wanted to lead his Sooners to a BCS National Championship.
Bradford took a gamble that most collegiate football players do and rolled the dice to play another year. Unfortunately his gamble so far is a bad one. In week one of the college football season Oklahoma played BYU. On one particular play Bradford was hit so badly that he landed on his right throwing shoulder, thus injuring his AC joint. An injury, especially with a Quarter Back, is costly. Bradford was out a few weeks and returned to play Baylor University. Against Baylor he had one of his best games and all the critics backed off.
Like I said before this past weekend was the Texas vs Oklahoma annual match-up and like all of the Red River Rivalries in the past it had all the drama and storylines. The biggest of all was that Bradford was indeed going to be under Center for the Sooners. But not everything would be happy in this story.
On the Sooners first drive Bradford took a massive hit from Texas safety Earl Thomas. The Texas safety blitz took Bradford by surprise and he landed right on that right throwing shoulder. He went to get up, but quickly collapsed and all of college football loving America knew that he injured that AC joint again.
What people may not know is two injuries (that may result in an off-season surgery) on Bradford’s throwing shoulder could cost him millions and millions in the 2010 NFL Draft. For example, Georgia QB, Matthew Stafford, was the number one overall pick in the 2009 Draft; his contract is six years, forty-one million guaranteed. The next QB drafted was Mark Sanchez by the New York Jets at the fifth overall pick; his contract is five years twenty-eight million guaranteed. That is a thirteen million dollar difference in guaranteed money within five draft picks. Bradford’s injury will most likely move him out of the top spot (some even think out of the top ten) thus costing him millions!
Unfortunately this is just another story about the gamble of entering the NFL Draft early. Sometimes it works out and sometimes it doesn’t. Let’s all hope for Sam Bradford’s sake that he bounces back from shoulder surgery and has a stellar NFL career and doesn’t play the “what if” game for the rest of his life.
If you don’t know a thing about college football, or football in general for that matter, then I strongly suggest you pick yourself up a copy of the book Football for Dummies. This is especially true to the four annoying fans that sat behind me this Saturday at Charles A. Gaetano Field in Utica, NY. The four years of my undergraduate life were strongly dedicated to the C-State Red Dragons football team. But now that my little brother plays for the Utica College Pioneers, I never make a Cortland game. Sorry!
This weekend Utica played Springfield College, one of their rivals in the Empire 8 Conference. Now I know football, pigskin knowledge runs through my veins, so normally I don’t blow-up at people who don’t understand that it’s ten yards for a first down or a touchdown is six points and not seven. But these four made steam spew from my ears.
For starters they were screaming for the UC coaches to put in “other players” in the first quarter. Sorry sweetheart no coach is putting in his third string offense when you’re only losing by a touchdown! Another annoying announcement from this football-moron, “Stop running the ball!” Ok I don’t like running the ball either, but when the Defense is double covering the receivers with BOTH safeties and the Corners are a foot taller than any receiver we have, then YES you run the ball!
As if these annoying fans weren’t enough, the cheerleaders had to remind me of my hate-hate relationship with their kind! The Utica cheerleaders were honestly more concerned with their blue and orange ribbons perfectly aligned with their pigtails then paying attention to the game! Examples of this: Utica was getting crushed with Springfield up 27 points most of the game, so I don’t think the “Win Utica Win” chant was the smartest choice in the fourth quarter! Also, when the crowd is cheering the Utica Fight Song and you follow suit with your pom-poms, then don’t you think you should’ve started the cheer? Just a thought! These girls were more of cheerfollowers, then cheerleaders!
Like I said before I don’t mind fans who root for a team and know little about football. All I request is that you don’t sit behind the sports chick on a college football saturday! 
I never ever miss the polls on ESPN.com or other means of sports media. But something very strange caught my eye today. Currently the ESPN.com mainpage has a story about the current 3-0 teams (which includes my J-E-T-S). In the article you can click to be directed to a SPORTS NATION POLL. In the poll (or survey) they are questions about the 3-0 teams and there playoff contention. Click HERE to vote for yourself.
Now, the last 7 questions are a simple YES or NO aka CONTENDER or PRETENDER. Each team has “CONTENDER” listed first, but NOT the Jets!! For question #7 the “PRETENDER” option is listed first. See the pic for yourself!
Is this ESPN’s way of making those who click through surveys select the Jets as a “PRETENDER” and not a “CONTENDER”? Maybe so, because the Jets currently have more votes for “PRETENDER” and every other team currently has the first option of “CONTENDER” with more votes!
Hmmmmmm …. the chick smells some ESPN resentment of the Gang Green!
Late last night my BlackBerry started going berserk with a million BBMs, texts, and alerts. If you know me personally (or if you’ve read this blog for a while now ), then you’d know that I’ll love the man known as the Farns. Last summer my fellow interns from the NYJ all made good fun of the blubbering mess that was me because the Farns was traded away from the Yanks. Looking back I am a fool! haha
But last night was a night I was waiting for since April. The Farns and his new team, the Kansas City Royals, where playing my fav (and his former team) the Yankees. I WAS ON CLOUD FRIGGIN’ NINE! And wouldn’t you have it that KC was leading 3-2 in the bottom on the 9th inning. Now due to the fact that the Royals used closer Joakim Soria too much the other day meant that THE FARNS WOULD CLOSE AGAINST THE YANKS IN YANKEE STADIUM!!! ahhhh rejoice, jump, scream, freak-out! It was a perfect scenario!!
HALT!
Nothing in my stupid love of the Farns ever ever ever goes right!! Let’s just say the Yankees got their 15th walk-off win of the season, and I nearly had a heart attack. Yes, the Farns blew another game at Yankee Stadium.
Ughhhh … Farnsy, was must you alwasy break my heart?!?! why why why??? lol
