The Red Sox Get Crushed
Posted on April 23rd, 2014 in Uncategorized | 19 Comments »
It’s a long season…but the Yankees have already beat the Red Sox four times, as opposed to just six in 2012. This is very exciting, and also just plain good All-American fun.
Last night’s game was particularly satisfying: outstanding pitching from Masahiro Tanaka, fine hitting by Jacoby Ellsbury, Derek Jeter extended his ten-game hitting streak, and a pathetic, embarrassing outing by Sox “ace” John Lester.
Of course, only about 12 percent of the season has been played, and things could change: Ivan Nova’s season- (career?) ending injury doesn’t help, and the Yankees are pretty thin in the infield. But any patriotic American has to be pleased with the way things are going so far.
19 Responses
4/23/2014 10:43 am
What’s patriotic about supporting the Yankees? Just the name? Or that they just trounce everyone in dollars etc?
4/23/2014 11:06 am
We’ll get back to you after Lord Stanley’s Cup is all set. Oh that’s right, no one cares about hockey.
4/23/2014 1:36 pm
As far as I’m concerned, supporting the Red Sox is like rooting for Al-Qaeda. But I’m old school that way.
On the hockey front…I guess people do care—I see a lot of people with Rangers t-shirts on—but it’s not that many, right?
4/23/2014 6:40 pm
Like rooting for Al-Qaeda! Goodness gracious, I had no idea. I’m turning myself into the feds at once.
4/23/2014 7:47 pm
Pine tar. Classy.
4/23/2014 7:50 pm
I wouldn’t wear a Rangers shirt either.
4/23/2014 8:56 pm
On the Al-Qaeda front-I mean, just look at the beards.
4/23/2014 8:56 pm
Regarding the pine tar-stupid.
4/23/2014 9:48 pm
But it sure helped, didn’t it? Makes you wonder.
4/23/2014 10:21 pm
That’s seven Red Sox posts in a row. And another post about a Yankees’ victory in which you decided to go with a headline mentioning the Sox not the Yankees. Interesting.
4/23/2014 10:43 pm
Hey, at least he put the pine tar on his neck, visible to all.
4/24/2014 5:35 am
Hey Mike, how are you counting? Did you happen to notice that the post immediately before this one has nothing to do with the Red Sox?
4/24/2014 9:50 am
PEPT … Performance Enhancing Pine Tar … Hmmm …. culture of cheating?
Your comment about Al-Qaeda is just plain stupid.
4/24/2014 2:01 pm
Chris-relax a little, okay? My comment about Al-Qaeda was obviously hyperbolic. A joke, you might say. Frankly, I thought the line about the beards was pretty funny. I mean, it was either Al-Qaeda or a softball team in Provincetown.
I don’t think anyone wants to get sanctimonious about pine tar and to their credit, the Sox haven’t been. The consensus seems to be that Pineda erred not in using pine tar, but in being so blatant about it. Sort of a bizarre distinction, but it’s the players making it, so…
4/24/2014 2:02 pm
P.S. I say that about sanctimony and pine tar with the full knowledge that, in the Bucholz case, I *did* get sanctimonious about it. I have since been schooled: Apparently everyone really does do it.
4/24/2014 2:11 pm
Case in point, from the Globe:
—Red Sox catcher A.J. Pierzynski was of the opinion that it’s done, and it’s going to be done, just don’t do it so blatantly.
“Guys do it and I don’t have a problem with it,” Pierzynski said. “I know as a hitter I want to get in there knowing the guy has a grip. Put it on your hat, put it on your pants, put it on your belt, put it on your glove, whatever you have to do. But at some point you can’t do it that blatantly.”—
I don’t get the logic myself, but it’s their game.
4/24/2014 3:14 pm
I agree its a dumb baseball distinction. I just think that it would be fascinating to know what went on in the Yankee dugout. I mean how stupid can you be? Pineda ain’t to bright and now the Yankees really know how dumb he is. Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.
The Al-Qaeda comment just isn’t a good idea. I don’t mind the joke but it is going over the top to compare the Sox to Al-Qaeda. You’d never see me compare the clean cut Yankees to, I don’t know, some historic throwback middle european country that tried to goose step their way to taking over the world. As you said, just joking.
I’m not sure the Provincetown reference is much better though.
4/24/2014 3:16 pm
Before you [sic] me, “to bright” should be “too bright.”
Now you have me proof reading my own comments. I’m gonna stop doing that.
4/24/2014 9:45 pm
I should have been more clear, I was only counting the baseball-related posts.