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Filed Under (blogging, baseball) by Arjewtino on 29-10-2007

If my blog’s new theme doesn’t prove that I should no longer be allowed to make bets with my friends, I don’t know what does.

Shortly after meeting INPY earlier this year and becoming BFFs over SoCo and limes and our Dodgers-Yankees rivalry, we made a bet on the baseball season. Since INPY documented it on his blog, I’ll let his words speak for themselves:

[Arjewtino] and I have a little wager that I will now make public. He is a Dodgers fan, but I don’t hold that against him. (Not TOO much) It could be SLIGHLTY worse and he could belong to the tribe that is known as Red Sox Nation. (Gag) But, as a true baseball fan he knows of the storied history our two teams share…the anger, the WS run ins…all of it. And since the Dodgers are FINALLY picked to actually do well, we have put this little wager together;

It’s a head to head, Yankees v. Dodgers straight up who will have the better year. If, say the Yankees make the playoffs and the Dodgers don’t…game over. If they both make the playoffs it’s who wins more games/advances further. And if, by the grace of God we meet in the WS (as many are predicting) then it’s a straight up winner take all…

And what is on the line?

Loser has to (1) dress up in the jersey and the hat of the other’s team and allow photo documentation and (2) the Blog gets a makeover in the other teams colors and logos for a full week.

The season started out great for Big Blue as we (yes, we) won 10 of our first 14 games. We started May over .600 and in first place in the NL West as the Yankees played under .500 through June. By the time the All-Star break rolled around, the Dodgers were up 5 games on the Bronx Bombers.

INPY was nervous about the bet and admitted as much to me. Hell, he barely cared about it when he saw the Red Sox build a season-high 14-game lead in the AL East. To his credit, he kept fending off immature attacks from RSN yokels and promised his Satanic team would stage a comeback.

Sure enough, the Yanks’ season, and my chances at winning the 6-month-long wager, started to change.

By the end of July, the Dodgers were up on the Yankees by only a half-game. By the end of August, the Dodgers were down four games and playing like Alyssa Milano was manning third base. Seriously, Tommy Lasorda could have hit better with men in scoring position.

On September 16, the Yankees held a 4 ½-game lead over the Blue Crew.

My team responded to this deficit in typical Dodgers’ fashion: by losing 10 of their next 11 games. The Evil Empire, however, finished the regular season by winning 9 of their final 13 games and securing the AL Wild Card.

Final Line:

Yankees 94-68 (.580)
Dodgers 82-80 (.506); 12 games back

I am an when it comes to betting. I may win at blackjack in Atlantic City or at Roshambo against HAL, but when it comes to wagering my dignity against my friends, I have the willpower of The Princess around champagne and cupcakes.

Still, I felt it was a fair wager and there is some satisfaction in having seen the Yanks get spanked by the Cleveland Indians in the first round. We agreed that photo documentation was unnecessary since neither of us remembered actually saying those words when we made the bet but that the blog makeover was instrumental.

So here it is. Enjoy Arjewtino’s new look this week, INPY. Soak it in, relish the images of Jeter and the NY logo on my banner.

‘cause there’s always next year.

Thanks to Kathryn, a Yankees fan herself, for designing my banner.

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Comments

Baby Bien on 29 October, 2007 at 10:13 am #

SooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, there is that.


A-rod's NY hooker on 29 October, 2007 at 10:19 am #

I miss him already. Maybe Jeter would be a new customer. Or maybe I’m barking up the wrong tree.

Knowing you, no, you’re not.


Financial advisor on 29 October, 2007 at 10:22 am #

You don’t bet. Bets involve money. You make moronic dares. The Yankees stuff is cute. But are you sure Jeter is going to be on the team next year?

This was an attempted humiliation bet. But the only thing humiliating is that Yankees fans have to hear about their team on a day like today.

Remember when the Yankees were intimidating/good/relevant?

That was a time…
GO FUCKIN PATS

That actually is a more accurate statement. But I don’t think this dare was moronic considering the Dodgers’ high expectations going into this season and SI predicting an LA-Anaheim World Series.


inowpronounceyou on 29 October, 2007 at 10:25 am #

On a day when the Sox have won another WS, the ARod saga mercifully comes to an end in NY, and the Yankees new manager is to be announced…

This looks awfully good.

Same bet next year?

We’ll see, my friend, there are a lot of factors to be considered: the Dodgers’ chances of landing Torre, free agent signings, and my need for revenge.


future mrs. ellsbury on 29 October, 2007 at 10:25 am #

i’d say a little part of me died seeing your page with a yankees theme, but while they lost their mvp yesterday we got our second world series this century. i think i’m okay with your page being yankees for the week. it feels so good to be world champs.

A big part of me died when I realized I’d have to do this to my site, so I know how you feel. Congrats on last night’s championship.


on 29 October, 2007 at 10:36 am #

Well, at least Kathryn included the Sheffield-Jeter-almost-making-out picture up there.

I think it’s maybe driven by a little guilt for once having worn a Red Sox hat.

She once wore a Red Sox hat? This is news to me. Do we have photo documentation?


Jeter's crying on 29 October, 2007 at 10:37 am #

Remember when the yankees were intimidating/good/relevant?


Jeter's crying on 29 October, 2007 at 10:39 am #

Sorry. Semi-repeat post.

So is this one.


Kathryn on 29 October, 2007 at 10:48 am #

Jeter is a fine-looking man!

It doesn’t help that The Princess, who knows zilch about baseball, thinks the one guy she knows is cute. Yup, it’s Jeter.


Baby Bien on 29 October, 2007 at 10:54 am #

GO SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX!!!!


on 29 October, 2007 at 11:16 am #

There is electronically written evidence.

I await Kathryn’s bribe to get me to destroy it.


Hearts wine coolers on 29 October, 2007 at 11:45 am #

I heart how Spankees fans/NY media are now pretending they are glad A-scrod is leaving. Subtract his HRs and RBIs from last season, and you can pretty much delete 18-22 games from the Spankees win column.

That would have put them behind the Blue Jays.

GO SOX!


[…] Any Dodgers fans wanna bet on it? […]


Tits McGee on 29 October, 2007 at 1:08 pm #

Oh, I never weigh in here, but on this glorious day…who cares about Jeter’s smug looks, A-Rod (yes, NY you should be GLAD he’s gone, his 54 home runs and 150 or whatever RBIs definitely didn’t help you), or the Yankees right now? It’s like worrying about the nuclear threat from Fiji…

The sad post-script of the Yankees domination that began with their infamous collapse in the ALCS in ‘04 is hopefully complete…

Good luck Yankees. Maybe a few decades of losing will do you good and you’ll finally gain a soul.

That’s a lot of vitriol for a kid from Connecticut.


Bridal Bird on 29 October, 2007 at 1:27 pm #

Oh for the love of God! (vomitting into trashcan) Help a sister out and put a NSFOF (Not Safe for O’s Fans) on the DC Blogs live feed before we innocently wander into this kind of turkey shoot will ya?

No, a NSFOF would be a banner displaying the numbers 30-3.


on 29 October, 2007 at 2:11 pm #

Jesus Designated-Hitting Christ…

A screenshot of this banner needs to appear next to the online dictionary entry for “adding insult to injury.”

Is Urban Dictionary a wiki-based service?


startingtoday on 29 October, 2007 at 3:07 pm #

Cute layout.

If you ever need help predicting stuff again, I predicted yesterday that the Pats would beat the Redskins 56-0. I was really close. I might play some numbers tonight.

You and MJ both, who came close to predicting the Sox score in Game 5 when their backs were against the wall.


on 29 October, 2007 at 3:19 pm #

As dissappointing as this year has been I’ve discovered scientifics facts that the Yankees will at worst win the ALCS next year. The curse of Don Mattingly has been lifted and it’s time for a return to glory.

Whatever gets you through the night.


on 29 October, 2007 at 5:17 pm #

This makes my brain bleed. I’ll be back when it’s gone.

I should have made it pink.


on 29 October, 2007 at 7:52 pm #

I will not be able to visit your blog for a week. The banner is hurting my eyes.

You and me both, E. It’s also hurting my soul.


Becca on 29 October, 2007 at 11:01 pm #

Wow, this blog’s design is the only good thing that’s happened to the Yankees in the last two weeks.

But this is all so ironic considering Torre may manage the Dodgers.

PS, don’t change a thing!

Enjoy it while you still can, Becca, because come Monday I’m making my blog take an acid bath to get the stink off of it.


jess on 30 October, 2007 at 9:25 am #

it’s so pretty! but it would be better if you had pinstripes running down the background of the page.

i don’t think this was a fair bet, as it’s obvious inpy would’ve placed strategically dodgers-clad alyssa milano photos on his blog if he lost.

of course, that would have been awesome.

He might still do that.


on 30 October, 2007 at 10:30 am #

Doesn’t get much worse than 8 pictures of Derek Jeter. Out of context, one might think you were fruity.

Or that Kathryn was.


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