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The Yankees Red Sox rivalry (mlb spin off thread)
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Monday morning quarterback.
You don't want to bring Wong back early because he could re-injure himself.
STRIKE THREE TO A-ROD.
im not as yankees fan, but i like the redsox, but for me the whitesox are the best. ill be starting the whitesox cubs spinoff thread in may when they play eachother.
go sox!
I love the sox. I hate the ugly rivalry though. It annoys me to go to a game and hear "**** jeter, **** the yankees" every 5 minutes, regardless of whether or not they are playing, especially when there are little kids at the game too.
I was listening to WEEI last week after one game, and someone who moved to the U.S. from Scotland called in. He said he was picking everything up pretty quickly, and he wanted to comment on the rivalry. He said it was really huge, and he also wanted to know the basis of it. The host said it was mostly a continuation of an economic rivalry that went way back. The caller said it was refreshing, because the biggest sports rivalry he knew of back home consisted of two football (the actual foot one) clubs. One was mostly Catholic, the other mostly Protestant, and it got very ugly indeed.
So next time someone complains that the rivalry is "too ugly", just be glad that we don't see riots after (or during) every game.
He struck out your new 12-HR hero how many times?
Anyways, nice play by Pedroia to end the 8th. And Lowell breaking out the wood.
And I figure it's about time this made a return:
The Yankees are 8-9, can you imagine what their record would be if a-rod hadn't had one of the best months in baseball history.
To be fair to the yankees, it's hard to survive when 3 fifths of your rotation is on the DL, meaning using rookies, meaning using your bullpen alot. The main thing I would would be worried about (as well as losing now) is that some of those bullpen arms might be awfully tired come September. Torre has a habit of only trusting a couple of setup guys if the game is on the line so I fear for guys like Proctor who could pitch a lot of innings.
Saying that, their lineup is scary 1-9, and that alone will win them games, at least in the regular season.
From the red sox end, it has been completely the opposite, the pitchers are the ones getting it done. 4 of the lineup had been hitting below .200 (Manny, Varitek, Coco, Pedroia) although the hitting does seem to be improving.
To be fair to the yankees, it's hard to survive when 3 fifths of your rotation is on the DL, meaning using rookies, meaning using your bullpen alot. The main thing I would would be worried about (as well as losing now) is that some of those bullpen arms might be awfully tired come September. Torre has a habit of only trusting a couple of setup guys if the game is on the line so I fear for guys like Proctor who could pitch a lot of innings.
Saying that, their lineup is scary 1-9, and that alone will win them games, at least in the regular season.
From the red sox end, it has been completely the opposite, the pitchers are the ones getting it done. 4 of the lineup had been hitting below .200 (Manny, Varitek, Coco, Pedroia) although the hitting does seem to be improving.
A sweep is always nice,even tho it's only April. Guys in front of Papelbon did a nice job,good to see that and the bottom of the order come alive..Off to the Bronx....
The rioting we had was just really committed by stupid college kids who wanted a reason to riot.
Football can be uglier, but I feel like it doesn't make the game horrible. I love sitting at Fenway in the spring and singing Sweet Caroline (off key). Everything seems perfect until that one idiot baffoon starts swearing about Yankees.
Last year, when Germany lost to Italy (on July 4th!) someone in Baden-Württemburg burned down a pizza place. THat was bad too.
I can't say that the sight of Doug Mintkayvich (woo, phonetics!) stepping up to the plate strikes fear in anyone's heart.
True, except for the fact that you feel pressure to get him out (hence lots of fastballs) because if you don't you'll have to face Damon, Jeter, Abreu, Arod,..
Oh... reading... right.
I should have, but I got through the first quarter of it and figured it would be the same thing. Thanks for pointing that out- now we can put it to bed.
It's out of respect to the birth of Varitek's daughter:
Jason makes his off-season home in Suwanee, Georgia with wife Karen, whom he met through a mutual friend at Georgia Tech, and daughters Alexandra Rose (1/14/00), Kendall Anne (9/30/01) and Caroline Morgan (6/13/05). The announcement of Caroline's birth was made at Fenway Park during the eighth inning that day and was immediately followed by the Neil Diamond song, "Sweet Caroline", a Fenway Park favorite. During the season, The family lives in Newton, Massachusetts during the season.
Sweet Caroline is actually played during the seventh inning stretch. Dirty Water is played at the end of the games....