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Thursday, November 05, 2009
The Bronx Bombers won their 27th world series last night, and it's time to celebrate with an Ode to the Yankees Acronym Contest. Post your acronym that spells out "Yanks," "Matsui," or some other Yankees-related word below!
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The Yankees exemplify some of the worst traits of human nature: greed is good, might makes right, I've got mine so the heck with you.
money
How much worker productivity time is lost from employees skipping work and attending tomorrow's parade? How much school aid does the city lose from students skipping class (absentee = no $)? How much are the Yankees putting up against the costs of extra police, sanitation, etc for the parade, or is it all on the backs of the taxpayers?
doddle: baseball is a doddle.
I've stopped watching MLB because they have no salary cap. And I'm a fan of a big market team, but not the Yankees.
In response to seth: Are you referring to the Yankees or Mayor Bloomberg?
Anagrams? Snaky and autism come to mind...
Yankees
Always
Need
Kash to
Exceed
Expectations,
SO THERE!
weird... the yankees winning is kind of like the mayor's victory the other day... spend enough money (yankees over $1 BILLION since their last championship to bloomberg's $100 million campaign) and you can barely win too!
Stop Hating!!! Please!!!
Yes the Yanks have tons of cash. Are they greedy, yes but so is MLB. They are in a market the supports that kind of spending. Any other team in MLB would do the same and does the same!!!As a fan who has waited 9 years for this win, it was money well spent.
Yeah Jay from Norwalk...lighten up people!!!
Wow, such ire. If people didn't want to pay to see them play, the money wouldn't be there. This win will be bringing plenty of cash to various businesses around the city.
Here are my two favorite players:
Perhaps the don't deserve
Our heartfelt praise, but despite
Sour grapes, baseball still pays.
Another win, twice in ten years,
Dunking a new stadium, still
Awash in a lost park's tears.
May the cash spent return, and
All the sacrifice pay off.
Trust our economy will
Undo the dips in the trough.
In the now, celebrate the win!
YANKEES WON! =
OY! WINSANE! K?
Oops, I deleted the S line. Sorry Matsui!
It should read:
May the cash spent return, and
All the sacrifice pay off.
Trust our economy will not
Sink and
Undo the dips in the trough.
In the now, celebrate the win!
Not much better, I know, blame the sleepless three month old.
Yes!
Another
NY
Killer
Season
People are taking this WAY too seriously.
"The Yankees expemplify some of the worst traits of human nature"??? It's a baseball team with a lot of fans that give them money by attending the games, and a lot of sponsors who are willing to pay the higher advertisement rates since it reaches a larger customer base. If you have the money, why not hire the best players money can buy?
Yankees parade = lost worker productivity?? Ironically from a post timed 10:07 a.m. (assuming the poster has a 9-5 job). It's a parade for the 2009 World Series Champions. It would happen for any team, Yankees or not. Why shouldn't the Yankees get theirs? On that line of reasoning, I suppose coffee breaks should be abolished since cumulatively they take up way more time away from worker productivity throughout the course of 9 years than a lousy World Series parade.
If you hate the Yankees, fine. Just stop making these BS whiny arguments that are way off base.
The Yankees exemplify a great business model.They have money to spend to make their product better, and they do.
Everyone who hates on the Yankees is absolutely misguided. If you're uncomfortable with baseball not having a salary cap, then blame all of professional baseball. The Yankees would be a horrible organization if they made so much money and didn't do everything they could with it to make their fans happy.
Posada, Jeter, Pettite and Mariano all were integral parts of the Yankees 5 rings.. and they were all Yankees from the start. I hope Gardner, Cabrera, Chamberlain, Cano and the others are just as lucky.
OK, Acronym, not anagram!
let me try once again.
My
All-time
Twinkling
Star
Universally
Internationally
Congratulations, Yankees!!
One:
Your
ALL
No
Kinks
Sports Team
My
All
Time
Sports Team
U win
I scream
You guys did it.
A long time but we finally made it
No regrets, no looking back
Kan we do it again?
So it goes...Lets just Celebrate
MATSUI
Mysterious
As
The
Sports
Universe
Is
Matsui mysteriously became the hero after a no-show pre World Series performance!
Hideki Matsui:
I MAKE HITS, I DU.
(Ok, the spelling's off on the last word, blame the translator.)
Evidently, I'm confused -- is the contest for ACRONYMS or ANAGRAMS (which is what Brian has been saying all morning)?
M.A.T.S.U.I.
Most
Acclaimed
Top
Swinger
Unique
Irreplaceable
Anagram: a word or phrase made by transposing the letters of another word or phrase
Acronym: a word (as NATO, radar, or laser) formed from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term; also : an abbreviation (as FBI) formed from initial letters
M.A.T.S.U.I.
Most
Acclaimed
Top
Swinger
Undeniably
Irreplaceable
York
As
New
Kicks
Everybody
Else's
S's
Is this an acronym contest, or an anagram contest?
It says acronym on the webpage, but I believe Brain said anagram on the air.
Clarification please!
YANKS:
You
Almost
Never
Know
Submission
103 regular season wins!
World Series Champions
Sorry for the confusion folks. We mistyped "anagram" at first, but were thinking "acronym." But really, it's all about posting your ode, in whatever form you'd like!
-BL Show-
Mature Asian Transends to Series Unlikely Individual
Monster
At
The
Stadium
Untiring
Ironman
It's ACRONYNM. Brian corrected himself on his Facebook page.
"Brian Lehrer
And of course we mean "acronym" not anagram. Write an ode that spellsl out Yanks our Matsui..."
Maximal
Athletic
Triumph
Spurs
Uninveral
Idolization
Yet
Another
National
Kneels
Stubbornly
Metropolis
And
Tokyo
Salute
Unto
Ishikawa
Magnificent
Autumnals
Twenty
Seventh
Ultimately
Invincible
YANKS:
Yet,
A-Rod's
Named
King
Steroids.
Mighty
Athlete
Thanks
Supporters
Using
Translater!
Yaaaaay!
Again
NY Yankees are
Kings of
Sports!!!!!
YANKS:
Youth
Activity
Not
Kingly
Stadiums
Matsui:
Mighty
Athlete
Thanks
Supporters
Using
Interpreter!
Melissa from Northampton MA is probably a socks fan.
Acronym:
Yorkers
Are ecstatic for
Native New England baseball
Kings!!
Master
Artisan,
Translation
Spectacularly
Unnecessary,
Icon
YES!
ANOTHER
NEW
KROWN
ELATES
EVERYFAN'S
SPRIT
Let’s not
Elevate one
Team to
Sainthood
Given that the
Others in this
Metropolis are
Ever
True to their
Stars
Just wait until next year!
MAGNIFICENT
ATHLETE
TALENTED
SLUGGER
UNLIMITED
ICON
HIT-DEKI!
Yet
another
nock-em
killer
season!!!!!
Yankees Acronym revision:
Yet
Again
New-York
Kicks
Everybody
Else's
S's
To Jay,
Nope, not a Sox fan. Born and bred NYer, Mets fan and eternal supporter of the underdog, which makes it really hard to be happy for the Yankees.
Yes!
And,
Naturally,
Keep
SPENDING?
In honor of the Yankees' four previous (and perhaps nervous) World Series winners,
Jeter, Pettitte, Posasda, Rivera:
A separated jitterier vet pot
Mighty
And
Tall -
So
Understated -
Inspiring
MOST
AMAZING
TEAMMATE
SHOWS
US
IMPETUS
A-Rod:
Athletically
Redeemed,
Or
Inherently
Deceitful?
(Yes, that's A-ROID.)
Mariano:
Many
A
Runner
Is
Allowed
Never
Onbase
CABRERA:
CAN
A
BOMBER
REGULARLY
ERR
RARELY?
AFFIRMATIVELY!
Yawn.
Annoying,
Nothing.
Know
Steroids?
You
Are
New York's
KingS!! (okay, I cheated on the S, maybe it stands for Superheroes?)
From fans of the other 29 teams to the Yankee fans:
Yeah, another. Now, kindly shaddap.
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