Word: yankeesã
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...respond constructively to the Yankees?? defeat? How can we avoid the trap of overconfidence and poor starting pitching...
...looking for it, you can find it.” Consider the examples of local Boston slang in the Harvard section. Without the book, non-locals might never have figured out that a “frappe” is a milkshake and the “Yankees?? are the New York Yankees baseball team. Nor would any incoming freshman be respected if he or she did not already know that the COOP, the Harvard Cooperative Society, is pronounced as in “chicken coop.” Not every word of the book is titillating gossip...
...this well-heeled summer (get it? a shoe joke that’s also about money!) has given me more of an idea than I’ve had since deciding, at the age of nine, that I would become the Yankees?? first-ever female sportscaster. (Alas—another dream gone. I wonder what kind of shoes Suzyn Waldman wears to the radio booth...
...Yankees?? song of choice is “YMCA,” but in the bleachers the song is distorted to a rhyming, less-PC version, with a chorus of “Why are you gay?” Moreover, the fans direct their rendition of the song at whichever lone opposing fan they can find. This meant that I had about twenty drunk New Yorkers pointing at me and singing the song. I suggested that they target their melody at Derek Jeter, but for some reason I was ignored...
Michael, not wired on small candy bears, spoke candidly about the hardships of living with his self-imposed condition. “I went to Game 7 in New York—Red Sox-Yankees??slept for six hours, and the next day I was sick. I’m doomed to be sick if I don’t sleep a lot every night...