Hey Nats, Yankees – Fight for my love!
We joked about giving Will a middle name that started with “N” instead of “R”
Every three years or so, we get an interleague match-up between my two baseball teams, the hometown Washington Nationals and my family’s team, the New York Yankees. I waited a couple of decades for D.C. to get a team. The Yankees on the other hand are literally part of the family history with my mother working for them back before I was born and her father being born and raised on 161st Street, Bronx, N.Y. So, I have some baseball bigamy going on and I won’t choose. No, that doesn’t fit the headline does it? Perhaps it is wishy-washy of me, but not as wishy-washy as someone who wears a Yankees hat and a Nats shirt or vice-versa. I won’t be that guy, so for the next three days, I’m Swiss and my beige heart will bleed with neutrality.
Or if you prefer, let this video represent my dilemma:
Hey, now the headline fits!
Washington Nationals, Nats, New York Yankees
No more neutrality crap. Man-up. Pick a team.
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