Toying With The Yanks

Yankee fan time to panic? And I thougth this might be the most entertaining early season Yankee vs. Sox series of the past 5 years. Huh. This is getting pathetic. Give em the cheese Paps.

Thaaaaaaaaaaa Yankees SUCK!

Yankees just face it we're better than you at everything. You can't even get the new stadium thing right. You use tax payers money then gouge your loyal fans with absurd prices in a booming economy, let alone the recession toilet we're in right now. Even when you try to send a message by Plunking Jay Bay you just get the professional tip of the cap and business as usual approach from the Sox. Face it the table have turned and you are not very good at being the underdogs. I think it's time to admit you have a problem and you're living off memories and reputation from 10 years ago. This ain't the late 1990's Paul O'Neil ain't walking through that door. Literally. Just take your beating and fight for 4th place with the Orioles.

Psssst Joba you're mother's a crack-hoe.

What the frick?

Now either you really love the Yankees or someone is having a little fun at their expense with some facebook Ads. Now, I have always had a suspicion Jeter took it for the other team, but this proves it. The Yanks can't even get the copy on their advertisements right how do they expect to win another World Series in the next 100 years? Either way have fun fighting the Jays and Orioles for third place again. Who Rules? Sox Rule!

By the way Jason Bay better have that contract extension signed by the end of the day. There are no excuses Theo. Just do it.

100 Posts...Really?

And for my one hundredth post I present to you A-Rod + Roids = Too Easy. I'd like to thank A-Rod for blowing up the blog sphere with the recent news. Really A-Rod juicing...Who KNEW! Maybe that's why he liked getting freaky with American Gladiator sized strippers. Keep doing your thing A-Rod.

Now you're in the CLEAR for all the purple lip stick!

ba dum dum che! (rim shot)

Yankee fans officially have nothing to like about their star player. Red Sox fans everywhere are left to wonder about Nomar's use. Baseball fans now remove all the great moments in the game over 80's & 90's from their collective memories...Right? Somewhere in Atlanta Jamal Anderson's publicist is writing a thank you note to A-Rod.

At least he's not Chris Brown though! Too bad he'll be losing all this.

Burn Ett Burn It All!

The Yanks are making waves again this week with a proposed 5 year 85 mil offer to often injured seldom on the mound A.J. Burnett. While the Braves are said to be in the hunt for A.J. as well I'm glad the Sox are going to sit out on this one. The guys only started more than 30 games twice in his career and his elbow has been banged up more over his career than Jenna Jameson. Last year was the first time he had won more than 12 games in a season. Not that money is the issue here, but what kind of investment is this guy. To me it seems like he pitches out of his mind in contract years and is dinged up the rest of the time while he's collecting checks and having his wife take limos from Baltimore to Toronto. Now adding Burnett make the Yankees a force to be reckoned with, don't get me wrong, but how does this help them get over their playoff hump. Neither guy really scares me in a 7 game series. I'll take Beckett and Lester or Dice K over these pretenders any day.

While the Yanks clean up the underachieving, tommy john surgery having, pre-madonna pitchers the Sox will have to settle for a stud first baseman with Triple Crown potential and a gold glove. Ho Hum! My only wonder now is if Pedro will come back where he belongs.

Sox Notes

Sox beat the Yankees in the first of the final three fare well (rot in hell) to "the house that Ruth built (and Ortiz destroyed)" Yankee Stadium. Watched a fair amount of the game and seemed like the Sox got just enough from Wake and the bullpen to get past the Yanks. Masterson came up HUGE and got A-Rod to ground-out with bases juiced. A-Rod didn't help the Yanks case any wasting the bases loaded opportunity to tie it up and botching a Jeff Bailey squib at third, but does he ever do anything against the Sox. Man do the Yanks fans boo the s out of him. I don't think any Sox player has gotten such a rouse as A-Rod did out of the Yankee faithful.

Sox also had homers from Ortiz and Youk (horrible guy in person).

• Josh Beckett threw a side session, and is on target to pitch Friday. YES!



• And the Rays lost at home to the Blue Jays. Yeaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (in a Howard Dean screech)



• Mark Kotsay is on his way along with his .289 average, six homers, and 37 RBI. Not sure how he's been this year defensively, due to injuries, but he always has been able to flash the leather. Seems like a good fit for this Sox team as well. O.K. O.K.
  
  
• And Ortiz is dropping knowledge: "That's how we roll here," David Ortiz said. "We don't panic here. You hit the panic button, you just get worse. Right? Right."



• The Yankees can finish this series no closer than four games in the wild-card race, with just a month left to play. Even if they win the final two, their hopes cannot be very high. WOW!



• Big ups to Coco (Arn't you glad he wasn't shipped out now?), Jed, and the rest of the bottom of the order for cleaning up Yankee pitching. This is an interesting Sox team to watch that's for sure.

This ain't your Daddy's Sox vs. Yanks

Anyone else out there a little less than pumped up for the Sox vs. Yanks in the Bronx final series?

I don't remember the last time this meant less. Maybe 2004 was the crowing moment to get over the Sox vs. Yanks rivalry. Maybe not. Maybe it is the incessant scheduling of 20 plus Sox Yankees series MLB has dumped on us in the past 4 years. Something just doesn't seem right. I think the last time I was fired up for Sox Yanks was in 2006 when my dad got tickets to the return of Johnny Damon to Fenway in pinstripes. You could feel the hatred in the park building prior to the first pitch. Outside the park before the game Sox fans were hounding anyone with a Yankees cap. My dad and I even got quoted in the Herald which ended up on the inside cover the next day. My dad said "Not since Benedict Arnold has there been such a traitor in New England!" I took it a step further and wished Damon would tear his ACL running down to first. To each his own.

Honestly though I think that is the last time I was genuinely fired up to beat the Yanks. Since then the Yankees have become and afterthought to the Sox season. I used to be they were the proverbial mountain each Sox team would try to conquer to get a glimpse of the playoffs. Maybe always being second fiddle was what fired up us Sox fans more. Maybe the Yanks just aren't that competitive since they built a team around aging sluggers and non-winning types like A-Rod. It rest a little more I say on their lack of quality starting pitching, but either way the rivalry is weak right now. It used to be you wanted to beat the Yankees more than you wanted to eat, sleep, or breath. A sweep was a jewel in the crown. Now you just kind of want to take 2 out of 3 and keep the AL Wild card lead over the Twinkies.

Whatever happened to Fisk vs. Munson and Mickey Rivers throwing cheap shots. Doesn't anyone remember the peak of hatred in the 2003 ALCS when Petey tossed Zimmer? Or Tek vs. Gay-Rod in 2004? Since Tek took out A-Rod and the miracle ALCS comeback there hasn't been that fire. The line in the sand was drawn that year and the Sox were not going to take shit from the Yankees anymore. Billy Miller's walk-off is probably one of my top-ten Sox moments. Maybe it is the curse of Big Papi or A-Rob, but it just doesn't feel the same. It shouldn't feel forced.

I miss those days...Who am I kidding I'll be watching just like every other year, but I'll miss the old time rivalry.