Fans Love It as the Empire Strikes Out

So the Yankees blew a three-games-to-none lead and lost Game 7 at home against their archrivals.

Hmmm ... they must be cursed or something.

Zachary Michael

Redondo Beach

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The best thing about the Red Sox victory over the Yankees? Kevin Brown’s 21.60 earned-run average for the series, and Gary Sheffield going 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in Game 7.

Ken Feldman

Granada Hills

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All you need to know about Yankee fans:

Yogi (“It ain’t over till it’s over!” ) Berra left the ballpark after the sixth inning.

Evan Puziss

Mar Vista

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Easy now, Mr. DePodesta, don’t go rushing into a contract extension with Jim Tracy. You may regret it, as it looks like Joe Torre may be available soon.

Jim De Vico

Los Angeles

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While watching Game 7 between the Red Sox and the Yankees, a thought occurred to me: If this was the only way to get someone as likable as Dave Roberts into the World Series while leaving someone as unlikable as Kevin Brown behind, then so be it! Now, if the Dodgers could have traded Paul Lo Duca to the Cardinals....

Tony Perez

Los Angeles

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Being a Dodger fan my whole life, and having a father from Boston who has been a Red Sox fan his whole life, watching the Yankees go down in a ball of flames -- especially a history-making, choke-of-the-century ball of flames -- is just too good to be true.

Jason Nyhan

Glendale

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Alex Rodriguez is a good fit with Yankee fans, those paragons of sportsmanship who litter the playing field with balls and bottles when umpires don’t give in to A-Rod’s tantrums.

What a sickening spectacle: The heroic first-responders who stood tall on Sept. 11 pathetically reduced to lining stadium foul lines in order to prevent Gotham’s pathetic, spoiled fans from assaulting the visiting team and the officials because a Yankee player has no clue about the meaning of sportsmanship.

Marvin J. Wolf

Mar Vista

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Until the umpires stepped in, it looked as if A-Rod was actually going to get away with hitting a literal “chopper down the first base line.”

Jim Mallon

San Luis Obispo

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Don’t forget to set your clocks back to 1918.

Matthew Thompson

Chino