And so it comes down to this....
Well I think we all knew it was going to end up with the Yankees and the Red Sox running after each other with swords screaming "THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE" I just didn't think it was going to end this way so soon. I kind of figured it would be a third consecutive ALCS with them going at each other, and while there is still a chance of that, it doesn't seem particularly likely.
So here we are...about two and a half hours from game time. Earlier this year I called David Wells the worst signing of the offseason. I have already been proven wrong since he's had a half way decent year. But tonight is the only start that matters. He has a history of winning the big game. He also has a history of being a fucking moron. We shall see which history wins out. He is being counted on by the Sox like the Yankees counted on him time and time again during their dynasty run. I wonder how much he has in him.
I do not feel optimistic, but then again I never do. I'm not even really a Red Sox fan. Yes I like the Red Sox a lot, but what fuels me is my undying and unending hatred of the Yankees. I hate every last one of them (except for Al Leiter...he gets the safety spot that last year went to John Olerud). I despise them with every fiber of my being. I hate seeing them win. It makes me see red with a rage I usually only reserve for Republicans. The only question is which one I hate most on the team. This year its a three way race to the finish between admitted steroid cheat and new human growth hormone freak Jason Giambi, the surly Gary Sheffield who reacts to everything as if you just went up to him and spit the n-word in his face or Alex Rodriguez who makes Curt Schilling seem press shy and never ever makes a team around him better (ultimate MVP argument settler...Yankees could be in this position right now if they had Andy Phillips starting 3B...Sox are .500 or worse without Ortiz...case closed). I can't stand these people who think they should have hozzanahs for every pop up they catch and take winning as though they are entitled to it just because they put on those fucking pinstripes.
I want the Sox to win. I need them to win. I wish I shared Jen's optimism though. Oh well...All I know is win, lose or tie I'm watching Raw on Monday and feeling good about the Mets for a change.
More as this develops...
Good luck Sox!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by KMB @ 4:42 PM
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1 down, 2 to go. :)
Wells stepped up and delivered, lucky to get out of the 1st inning relatively unscathed.
DH or not, Big Papi is MVP.
We're going well. 1 of 3 games down.
We'll win the next two. I'm confident of that.
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I'm sorry, KMB, but your comment that "the Yanks would be in the same position with Andy Phillips at 3rd base" demonstrates either a) blind hatred on your part; b) or an appalling level of baseball ignorance. Alex Rodriguez was the best offensive player in the American League in 2005, whether you like HIM or not, and it would have been far more difficult to replace his offense at 3rd base than it would have been for the Sox to have replaced Ortiz' bat at DH.
Larry Mahnken wrote the following essay on this very topic:
http://tinyurl.com/cz6jf
Read up, pal.
I congratulated Red Sox fans when they won it all last year, and I've commisserated with a lot of Red Sox fans about their misfortunes this year - first losing to the White Sox, and, more recently, losing Theo Epstein - but it's more difficult to do so with those who dispense vitriol as readily you're doing.
Your boys won the big one. You're not supposed to be bitter any more!!!
Incidentally, WHY do you hate Jeter? Or Bernie? Or Mariano?
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