We Can Has Cheesesteaks
Phillies fans crowd Shorty’s, a Philly-loving cheesesteak restaurant in NYC, to watch the Phillies Vs. Yankees in World Series game 1. Fans that arrived before the game were treated to free cheesesteaks courtesy of GPTMC, With Love XOXO TM, October 28, 2009. Meredith Edlow for GPTMC.
And as you are no doubt aware, the Phils spanked the Yanks, 6-1, including a legend-making performance by Cliff Lee and two solo homers by The King Of The White Girls. While we’re at it, here’s some other Phillies bits we need to get out the door:
· As an addendum to yesterday’s post/poll on the Phils Fight Song ‘09, we have another addition: Sonny Forriest Jr.’s Little-Rascal-bound rendition of The Intruders’ “Love Is Just Like A Baseball Game,” with updated Phils ‘09 lyrics! Metaphors like whoa, y’all. By the way, does this sound familiar? It should.
· Can somebody please get to work on some photoshops of Cliff Lee as Arthur Fonzarelli? Ayyyyyyyyy!
· And of course, Pedro Martinez starts for the Phils tonight. Can we get a what-what for the utterly beautiful pearls of knowledge Pedro rained down on a crowd of sports hacks yesterday like it was the most obvious thing in the world and why had they not considered this? Ecoutez:
“I think in every aspect, the way you guys have used me and abused me since I’ve been coming to [Yankee] Stadium [...] I remember quotes in the paper, ‘Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.’ The man? None of you have ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what I’m all about as a man. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things and have written so many things [about me].”
Know this, sportswriters: YOU DO NOT KNOW PEDRO AS A MAN UNTIL YOU HAVE EATEN THE STEAK OR THE RICE AND THE BEANS WITH THE MAN.
· And in other articles from MLB.com that sound like they were written for The Onion, oh wait: This one was in The Onion. It’s getting impossible to tell anymore.
· And for the love of God, if anybody has a screen grab of John Bolaris lighting up a Philly Blunt last night, get that to us post haste!
October 29th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I heard on 610 WIP that Bolaris and company will be at Wogie’s bar tonight on Greenwich Ave. in the West Village for the Phillies diaspora.
http://www.wogies.com/
October 29th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Shut down the poll. Sonny Forrest’s Phils Fight Song ‘09 wins. And not because he performs it from a wheelchair with a built in PA. But because it’s cute and he believes every word of it.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
“None of you have ever eaten a steak with me…”
Fucking poetry. I intend to crib that wherever possible.
October 29th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
I will also sub Black Taco for steak as I see fit.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
The Inquirer noted in an article that Sonny Forriest Jr. was at the game last night in NY and that the Post’s putting Shane Victorino in a tutu on their cover the other day “perturbed me so much, I had to go ahead and sing my song twice”. Outside of New Yankee Stadium.
He wins.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:01 pm
On the ‘frillies’ scandal front: We got us a green muppet, sure, but the Yankees had this hardly closeted mascot (from the Wiki):
“DANDY – Dandy was a short-lived mascot of the New York Yankees. He was a large pinstriped bird that sported a Yankees hat. He had a mustache that gave him an appearance similar to that of former Yankee pitcher Sparky Lyle. … Dandy was beaten up by fans who didn’t want a mascot, and quit, leading to the elimination of the character as the Yankees chose not to replace him.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB_mascots#Dandy
For shame Yanks. Self-deludin marys incapable of dealin with your identity in a healthy way. Ya beats down yer alt-lifestyle pet like homophobic dads of goth highschoolers across the midwest? Congrats NewYorklahoma.
October 29th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
There is that, LB. At least in Philly, I get “Yo man–nice suit.”
October 29th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
That said, barely anyone in NY even seems to even care about this series.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
@lord_whimsy
You must not have eaten a steak with New York then.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
Dear God, I love Pedro. There would be nothing sweeter than to watch him dismantle the Yankees tonight.
October 29th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
re: That said, barely anyone in NY even seems to even care about this series.
That’s because you’ve been hanging out in NL territory not in the AL boroughs. Mets fans have given up on life or at least anything that has to do with baseball.