Woe is the Yankees
Posted on May 19th, 2008 in Uncategorized |
Woe are the Yankees?
Whichever. As a poster below kindly points out, the Yankees stink. They just got swept by the Mets, for chrissakes.
As the terrific Yankee blog RiverAveBlues points out, there’s so much that’s gone wrong with the Yankees: They’re not hitting lefty-pitching, Andy Pettitte has been crummy, no A-Rod, no Jorge……
It’s all too depressing. Even for Red Sox fans, it must be depressing.
Actually, I take that back. If the situation were reversed and the Yankees were in first and the Red Sox were in last, I’d probably be pretty happy about it……
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For an (incredibly complicated) answer to the grammatical question, see http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE0DA163DF934A25753C1A965958260.
In short, your dilemma stems from what is a mis-translation of the original biblical text into English — i.e., “woe is me” (predicate nominative) instead of the correct “woe unto me” (dative) — and is resolved thusly: “Woe unto the Yankees.”
Please allow me to note that Jon Lester of the Red Sox just threw a no-hitter.